Dr. Tak Ken (Andy Lau), who bones up on books like The Tao ofChaos, is apprised of a strange set of anomalies in the greater HK area: an eminent scientist in hiding seems to have spontaneously combusted in the attic of a church, half a radar dish is in ribbons, and still another scientist is in hiding from the same fate. Before disappearing/dying, each has received an invitation from The Brotherhood of Technology, and the power of this sect seems to be potent enough to revive Dr. Kim's late girlfriend (Michelle Reis) in various spectral reappearance's. At around this time, the audience suspects that the plot has dug itself into a corner, but having committed itself to improbability, the movie goes all out. It transpires that there's an apocalyptic Caucasian angel (or is he a devil?), able to materialize at will to usher in the Seven Seals that will destroy and rebuild the world, and that the vanished scientists are part of the newly installed twelve men who would eventually rule things (only one of them is a woman, indicating the typically poor judgment shown by Christian potentates), and whose one rational decision has been to revive gorgeous Michelle Reis. The angel (or devil?...okay, I'll stop with the portentous babble) also shows great promise in his predilection for big explosions, which (aside from Reis) is one of the film's few merits.

(2/4)



[Reviewed by Steve Spinali]