| This was an interesting movie. While the supernatural/spiritual elements were ultimately unsuccessful, the cops hunting the vigilante story worked pretty well. Jordan Chan plays Sir Wah, the police officer assigned to catch a vigilante called the masked prosecutor who kidnaps crminals who have been found not guilty on technicalities, and plays hindu/buddhist music while caning them as punishment for their crimes. The movie really belongs to Louis Koo, who plays the masked prosecutor, a police officer for many yearswho went to jail for shooting a drug/narcotics suspect after he had surrendered. He seems to be doing this in part because he feels it was unjust for him to have been in jail while criminals go free and also out of a sense of guilt because in chasing down the narcotics/robbery suspect, he accidently fatally shot his partner who was also the younger brother of his fiance. The third partner of the masked prosecutor and the other cop was Guy, who while 6 months from retirment is partnered with Jordan Chan to catch the masked prosecutor and is terribly conflicted when he finds out it is his former artner who was like an adopted son to him. I did not think that the supernatural element was really dealt with. The movie starts with the cation "The demon of the dark is one of the eighty demons of protection and is the police chief in hell" and when the masked prosecutor is first seen abducting one of his victims, his mask changes colors and patterns as if by magic, but this idea never really goes anywhere. Nevertheless, an interesting movie and worth seeing. |
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