Saviour of the Soul (1991)
Reviewed by: dandan on 2006-07-21
Summary: now, who wrote the screenplay?
may (anita mui) is a city cop, having sent a notorious criminal to prison, she's now the prey of silver fox (aaron kwok), his disciple. after one of her partners, siu chuen (kenny bee) is killed by silver fox, may disappears leaving ching (andy lau) to take care of wai (gloria yip), siu chuen's little sister.

siu chen falls in love with ching, but ching spends his time pining for may and hassling her twin (also played by anita mui) for any news of her. meanwhile, silver fox prepares to strike again...

i remember the first time i say the trailer for this film and i was absolutely stunned. i dashed out the next day and snapped up the shiny new vhs and watched excitedly. then, as now, there were some great set pieces, some fantastic set design, pretty amazing cinematography and just a strange comic book mixture of melodrama, high camp, goofy comedy and action. sometimes it's a bit hit and miss, but when it works, it works.

on the whole, good stuff.