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Macao: A bag full of cut-off human arms & legs keeps the police
baffled at first, but soon a small & incompetent squad of cops headed
by officer Lee (Danny Lee) finds a trail leading to a mising person called
Cheng Lam, who once owned a restaurant ...
Meanwhile at Cheng Lam's restaurant: The new owner, Wong (Anthony Wong)
is actually an escaped convict rom Hong Kong, who likes to cheat at Mah
Jong. However, he also likes to kill his employees (Julie Riva amongst
them) and make meat buns out of them to get rid of the evidence. The meat
buns he sells at his restaurant, & quite successfully too.
Eventually, the cops suspect Wong of having murdered Cheng Lam &
his family, but without hard evidence, they try to make him comfess - by
beating a confession out of him. But at first it seems Wong is too smart
for them as he soon turns the tables on them & accuses them of police
brutality.
Our cops however find out that Cheng Lam's brother Cheng Poon (Shing
Fui-On) is in prison, so they decide to send Wong to the same prison to
let Cheng Poon beat him up for them.
Soon, Wong is so beaten up that he attempts suicide just to get out of
his cell - & he finds himself in a hospital, where officer Lee &
his team (and the nurse, who has a personal vendetta against him since he
has taken her hostage in an attempted escape) torture him some more, from
beating him up to severe sleep deprivation to water injections into his
back so he cannot lie down any more ... & eventually, Wong does
confess: Wong once was Cheng Lam's employee, but then Cheng Lam caught him
cheating at Mah Jong & in this light refused to pay his gambling
debts. So Wong tied him & his whole family (a wife, a little son &
3 or 4 daughters) up, & brutally killed one of them after the other,
all before the eyes of the others. Then he even had the nerve to call
Cheng Lam's mother (who was a bit too nosey to have around) & kill her
too. His only mistage was to throw the body parts into the sea instead of
the trash truck, like he did with his later victims ...
Having learned that, officer Lee gladly sends Wong - who insists Lee
can't get him convicted - back to his prison cell ... and to Cheng Poon.
By the next morning, Wong has committed suicide, but he was right in one
respect ... now he cannot be tried & convicted no more ...
A subplot deals with tomboyish cop Emily Kwan and her idiotic
colleagues.
A weird little film: The first half - & this is about a man killing
people & selling them as meat buns - plays like a black comedy, until
it turns into something that could be interpreted as an advertisment for
police violence - if one could take the film wholly seriously. And then
there's of course violence, and heaps of it too. Now I didn't really love
this movie ... but then I kind of liked it for its rawness, harshness
& refusal to take itself too seriously all rolled into one.
A film like this would be condemned as utter trash & only spat upon
in the restrictive Hollywood of the 1990's, in Hong Kong however, lead
actor Anthony Wong won the best actor price at the prestigious1993 Hong
Kong International Film Festival for his disturbing performance. Oh
well, who needs Hollywood anyway ?
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