| Laughter! Romance! Sex! Murder! Courtroom drama! You get this and more in Terry Tong's (Coolie Killer) wildly crowded (and crowd pleasing) final film. The above is what he spends time jumping in between as he portrays the life of one gigolo (Simon Yam) turned upside down when a client of his (Veronica Yip, back in smut territory after a fine performance in Call Girl 92) goes postal. Longing for love after he's fulfilled the duty of impregnating her, she gets seriously ticked off when Simon is actually in love with lawyer Sandy (Sandra Ng)...
Tong scores points in the low-brow area of the comedy since he has Michael Chow to work with and obviously the bonk-a-thon featuring Veronica and Simon is entirely welcome, if not a little bizarre. There's also a great deal of unconventional casting on display here as it's Sandra Ng who gets the be the actual object of desire, not a common occurrence at this time. Then when Tong takes cues from Fatal Attraction, you realize what an oddly compelling piece of smut this is. |
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