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This movie not only has abundent decapitations, it also has plenty other limbs & organs (including sexual) which gets chopped off. This movie is certainly not for the faint of heart. I found it quite funny, but perhaps not so much for the intended comedic aspects as much as the odditty of some lines (a product no doubt of the language barrier or/and subtitles). I would only recommend this movie to fans of HK horror-comedies. As mentioned, this is a very violent film, already five minutes into the movie we get several graphic beheadings. There are also ghosts & people who possess magic. One gets to see a cleric grow to the size of a giant & hunt ghosts, a laser shooting skull statue, ghosts that shoot laser as well as very powerful proto-grenades. Unfathomable is a word I would use to describe some of the chain of events, dialogue lines, as well as choreographic, cinematographic, & editing choices.
My rating, though, is a qualified one since I am not a huge fan of HK films (though I'm also Not not-a-fan) & my expereince with these, as well as my cultural & linguistical affinities, is highly limited.
I give this movie a 1.5 out five. It gets one point for the (my own) hilarity factor, and it gets ahalf-a-point for those times in the movie where the formal beauty of the sets shines (but note that this is accompanied with some preplexingly poor choices, especially the bluntly superimposed laser-eque speciall effects).
Regards,
Eyal.
This movie not only has abundent decapitations, it also has plenty other limbs & organs (including sexual) which gets chopped off. This movie is certainly not for the faint of heart. I found it quite funny, but perhaps not so much for the intended comedic aspects as much as the odditty of some lines (a product no doubt of the language barrier or/and subtitles). I would only recommend this movie to fans of HK horror-comedies. As mentioned, this is a very violent film, already five minutes into the movie we get several graphic beheadings. There are also ghosts & people who possess magic. One gets to see a cleric grow to the size of a giant & hunt ghosts, a laser shooting skull statue, ghosts that shoot laser as well as very powerful proto-grenades. Unfathomable is a word I would use to describe some of the chain of events, dialogue lines, as well as choreographic, cinematographic, & editing choices.
My rating, though, is a qualified one since I am not a huge fan of HK films (though I'm also Not not-a-fan) & my expereince with these, as well as my cultural & linguistical affinities, is highly limited.
I give this movie a 1.5 out five. It gets one point for the (my own) hilarity factor, and it gets ahalf-a-point for those times in the movie where the formal beauty of the sets shines (but note that this is accompanied with some preplexingly poor choices, especially the bluntly superimposed laser-eque speciall effects).
Regards,
Eyal.