| Dr. Care Kwan (Lau Ching-Wan) not only gets the benefit of getting out of a demanding relationship with May May (Celine Ma) but strikes up a friendship with former patient Faith (Athena Chu) who a year earlier nearly lost her life after falling from a roof. It all seems very sugar sweet between them until people around Kwan starts to suspect Faith is a ghost and Kwan is being enchanted. You know what they say about ghost/human love. The TV ghost expert Sperm Loui (Simon Loui) does draw comparisons to masturbation and the triad society in that regard but Kwan and friend Leslie Cheung (Emotion Cheung) needs to enlist this obviously very inept expert despite...
Wong Jing's paws infect this deadly boring ghost story that seriously lacks energy and initiative. Going silly on us and thinking comedy will be achieved just because characters are a bit out there, a tired Titanic spoof follows and it's not long before we truly see the boredom in leads Lau and Chu's faces. There's not much romance to work with anyway and when the regular spooks turn up that years earlier even from Wong Jing meant some kind of low budget energy was nowhere to be found, Step Into The Dark is embarrassing in the way it hardly tries to conjure up even a minute spark. Also with Helena Law Lan, Ha Ping and Lee Siu-Kei. |
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