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Nightmares
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One of Hong Kongs most respected police officers gets shot in
a shoot out and gets put in a coma. Approximately two years
later he wakes up. It doesn't take long before he's fully
recovered again. What's difference now is that he can see
ghosts. When he's assigned a case involving a serial killer who
goes after nurses he decides to seek help from his new found
friends to track down the killer.
This very average horrorthriller is actually quite original
for being an Asian ghost story. It takes a while for the
movie to get going but what develops is an interesting film
which doesn't exactly try to scare us by bringing ghosts into
the movie. Instead, the ghosts are actually the good ones in
this movie and I thought that was quite pleasant to see as
we usually only get to see evil ghosts. There was one thing
about the ghosts that I didn't like though and that was the
fact that they looked as if they held a green flashlight up
towards their face. Not a very creepy effect if you ask me.
Herman Yau, who has also directed such movies like "The Untold
Story", "Ebola Syndrome" and "Troublesome Night" proves to
us that he can also direct a good-looking thriller without
having to throw in buckets of blood. "Precinct" looks very
good and it's a shame that it has gotten such a terrible
DVD treatment in Hong Kong, which makes it look a lot cheaper
than it probably was. The acting is good as far as I can
tell but it doesn't feel fair to judge the acting when you
can't understand the language.
While this movie had many things going for it, I didn't feel
that it really led anywhere. I think maybe they should have
removed the investigating part as I rarely think that works
for a horrormovie. It also failed to deliver any real suspense
and there were times in the movie that I yawned. However, if
you're in the mood for a slow-paced thriller, this might be
the way to go.
Someone gets smashed by a container but it's not very graphical
so I can't say that it was gory.
I love the main theme for this movie, it sounds so Asian, I
can't really explain it. Anyway, the rest of the soundtrack
is less impressive though and very well hidden since you had
a hard time finding the silent background music sometimes.
We got some piano music and some drum music but other than
that it was hard to tell that there was any music at all.
This is an alright movie but not enough things are going on
in it to keep me interested. It's only an hour and a half
though and I definitely thought it was a good time to kill
some time so I can't say that I don't recommend it either,
it's just an average movie that's all.
Review By: AnthroFred
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