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A couple of friends are on vacation and one night
they decide to play truth or dare. Well the night
ends in tragedy when Ken goes missing and his hand
is found in his room. One year later the friends
still seem to believe that Ken is alive (what the...
his hand was found chopped off on his bed). Anyway
so they all get mysterious invitations from him to
go back to the same resort as the year before to
meet him there. And stupid as they are, they do just
this thing. Well, as the days go by, more handprints
will become black... I wish I could say that you'll
understand that last part better when you see the
movie but believe me, you will not.
Hong Kong horror movies just seem to get worse and
worse. I think that just about sums up my entire
review actually. But I guess since you're still
reading, you'll probably want to hear what was so
bad about this flick. Well first of all, the friends
relationship to each other is so strange, two girls
and a bunch of guys. All the guys are in love with
one of the girls while they have no interest in the
other one so she becomes the outsider of the gang.
Then we have strange things that just doesn't seem
to add up, like when they're at a restaurant, there
is only one table inside a big room? Wow! Restaurants
in Hong Kong must be terrible if the restaurants
only need to have one table.
It's not just the movies that get worse and worse,
the acting has also gone from bad to way below
barely acceptable. I think 90% of the conversation
in this movie was about how much the guys liked
the girl Sophie. The friends ways to entertain
themselves were also pretty disturbing. Teens in
Hong Kong apparently don't drink on their vacations,
they play games, a lot of games, constantly. And
if there's no one around to play games with you
can always start littering your room with religious
post-it notes, and when the room is done, you
can always go out in the garden and start littering
that instead. I mean, why not? Maybe because it's
not sane? And here's a small spoiler for you,
don't you just hate it when the killer is killed
among the first and then shows up in the last five
minutes and tells a complicated story of where he
was during the last couple of days. Actually, this
guy just said that he had locked himself in the
closet for two days because he was scared.
Back to the friends interests, because I just found
them to be the most fulfilling thing about this
movie. You see, all of these guys are pretty fit
but apparently, not one of them can swim! When a
guy falls into the water, one of the chicks have
to jump in after him because she's the only one
who knows how to swim. Oh. My. God. This was a
waste of film if anything. What kind of director
would let this movie be released and destroy the
rest of his career? Well, I guess it had a nice
DVD sleeve at least, damn those DVD sleeves.
A guy gets his head chopped off and another guy
gets his hand chopped off but the most grotesque
scene of them all was when a very obviously CGI-
made cockroach got a knife through its body.
During big parts of the flick I found myself
mumbling "lousy cheesy piano music". I guess that
sums up what I thought about the soundtrack.
Not that great. And not very good either. I wouldn't
mind it if this movie was only to be released in
Hong Kong and forgotten by the rest of the world.
Avoid this stupid nonsense mumbo jumbo. It is not
worthy of anyone's time or money.
Review By: AnthroFred
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