The film closely resembles 1992's Angel Hunter, sans the artillery. In retrospect, you'll find the film also plays like Silence of the Lambs, in form only. This go 'round, it's cynicism mixed with religious shenanigans, tallying an almost passable commentary, masquerading as crime drama. Got that? The sum of the parts, though, as in religion, doesn't quite make much sense. Supposedly based on a true story, G.C begins as detective Louis Koo stumbles upon an apartment full of fresh corpses. Ruled a mass suicide, Koo calls on the departments head religion guru, Anthony Wong. Their investigation leads them to a new sect in town, headed by the enigmatic Mr. Pope (Andrew Lin). Pope claims to be the one and only, telling his congregation that their martyrdom will help the less fortunate. Well....O.K.....sure, why not. I'm in! With the help of(), who's friend was involved in the sect and mysteriously died, they infiltrate to find answers.

A little more than halfway through the film, Mark Cheng appears as the devil incarnate, incarcerated. His presence is creepy and his lines are delivered in the same fashion. He blasphemes a bit about God being the Devil and the Devil being God, and all that good stuff, then, in an attempt to turn the secular Koo into believing his status as ol' scratch, Cheng invokes the coming of the locusts. A scene that becomes funny, if you think about the 'locust wranglers' off screen, tossing bugs into the frame.

Director Ivan Lai, the man behind some classic Cat III's like The Story of Rikki, The Imp, and Daughter of Darkness I+II, treads mainstream ground, though adding a surprising amount of gore and boobs for the IIB market. He even gives Koo a bump and grind scene. In the end, the same age old questions are asked of religion, and like other films of this ilk, are left unanswered. Are there any answers? God.Com is merely another religion themed film, thinking it's something more. Which it could have been, if the filmmakers could have explored the '.Com' side of the title, and equated old world theology to contemporary society; something i'm sure they were going for, but failed to capture. No new ground is broken, but for a H.K. cheapie, you just might be satisfied that it, at least, asked serious questions. That was good enough for me. Though I would like to know why Louis Koo's hairstyle has stayed the same for the past decade?

In the film version, five cult followers attempt suicide in a Tak Po Gardens flat. One survives – only just – and there are enough leads on the scene to point to two murderers. One flees to the mainland and where he's left to the Chinese authorities (as happened in the real case) and the cult leader becomes the sole target in Hong Kong (this is the made up bit). A friend of the survivor, Blonde Ying (Grace Lam), leads the cops to The Church of True God, led by Mr. Pope, or "The evil pope" as cop Chan (Louis Koo) from the Organised Crime and Triad Bureau aptly names him. Ying gets caught up with the cult straight away and casts aside her memories of Pope killing her best friend when she sleeps with him. As the cult leader sets about preparing for the end of the world (it was the first day of '99) the cops hire supernatural specialist Officer Chiu (Anthony Wong Chau-sang) to find out more about Pope's background. As far as Hong Kong thrillers go, "GOD.com" comes across with higher-than-usual production standards and plenty of good acting from its otherwise b-list cast.