Cop Shun (David Leong), who has been heading a secret sting operation
against a crime ring, is shot dead by the criminals he was after, and so
is his wife Ah Mei (Maggie Tan), but not before she's brutally gang-raped.
However, his 13 year old sister Qing (Joey Leong) gets away with a CD-Rom
full of evidence. Several days later, Shun's mum (Cheng Pei-Pei) shows
up at his superior Woon (Kenneth Tsang) to whitewash his name, because
since his death, Shun has been accused of corruption and the like (which
of course was part of the sting operation). At the same time, Shun's sister
Qing shows up at his old partner Shen's (Vincent Tee) place, convinces him
she is actually possessed by Shun's spirit, and in this condition has killed all his killers and
now needs Shen's help to go after Woon, who has been running the criminal
ring from within the police force. Shen organizes for Qing/Shun, Woon
and Shun's mum to all meet at a graveyard - where it turns out that Shen is actually
Woon's accomplice - which is bad news for Qing and her mother,
but then it turns out that mum is actually possessed by Ah Mei's spirit
while Shun manages to possess Woon, and ultimately, the dead couple has
its revenge on Woon and Shen, the cause of all the problems ... Basically,
this is a film that tries to be very clever ... but pretty much isn't. The
point is this, the whole story is set up within the first 15 minutes, then
the whole setup is told again in flashbacks and in far greater (and
more explicit) detail (especially the murder of Shun and Ah Mei is
unnecessarily extended to utter gruesomeness). This goes on for
approximately an hour, in which no new information to the plot is added at
all. It's only in the finale, when we learn that both Woon and Shen are
baddies and mum is possessed as well that the film finally gains any
narrative momentum and even offers a few original surprises, but that's
almost too little too late, and it also doesn't help that the film tries
to tie up a few loose ends that didn't need tieing up after the finale,
which somehow damages its impact. At least, Joey Leong gives an incredible
performance, especially considering her young age. The film was actually
based on a short director Chai Yee-Wei made in 2007 - and in my opinion
the short format is much better suited to tell this film's plot.
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