| Alex Fong's plays Chief Executive to be whose stressful life generates very vivid sexual illusions that in turn leads to a rape charge that may wipe out any chance of a political career. However, he is deadsure he hasn't committed such an act and while the entire investigation doesn't go in his favour, he's given leeway to investigate if someone has orchestrated a scheme to bring him down. Or is he a true beast?
Around this time, producer Wong Jing had apparently conjured up the idea of bringing quote unquote class into exploitation. A strange and questionable decision based on the kind of movies this venture affected; A Chinese Torture Chamber Story 2 and this, the 3rd installment in the Raped By An Angel-series.
Aman Cheung directs once again, bringing in much silly style over substance in what really is a pedestrian erotic thriller. Expectedly, nothing stands out as original, but Cheung admittedly involves the viewer during the middle section as Alex Fong's character tries to make sense of his situation. It also helps that Fong does just a slight bit more than just phoning in his performance (which I wouldn't blame him for in this case), displaying that trademark quiet dignity that he excels at exuding. As the twists and turns are revealed, this Raped By An Angel becomes incredibly silly just because there's no reason to jerk us around for 90 minutes in preparation for THAT ending. For a while though...bearable.
The package looks fairly slick and with the Cat IIb rating, much of your usual wanted (or unwanted) elements are kept subdued. Yet, and I'm going to hell for this for sure, the majority of my viewing self wanted a III, not a IIb. Simon Lui (the sole comic relief in this film but Simon brings an, at times, entertaining nerdy presence), Angie Cheung and Pinky Cheung co-stars. |
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