Victim (1999)
Reviewed by: cathy in nyc on 2000-01-19
I enjoyed this movie. Ringo Lam attempts to merge the genres of the ghost/horror movie with an action movie. I think the movie works better as an action movie than as a ghost story, although both Tony Leung Ka-Fai and Lau Ching Wan both keep the audience guessing up to the very end as to whether they have been possessed by spirits from the haunted house. The bsaic plot is that Manson Ma (played by Lau Chin Wan) has been kidnapped and is found hanging in the haunted house by Inspector Pit (Tony Leung Ka-fai), his collegue Officer Bee and Manson Ma's wife Amy Fu played by Amy Kwok. The house is supposed to be haunted by the previous owners, a man who killed his wife because he thought she was cheating on him and then killed his son and himself. The scenes shot inside the house are appropriately creepy, although relying a little too much on the thunder and lightning cliche of many horror movies. The plot has many twists involving gangsters and loan sharks and there is a really good car chase scene. Lau Ching Wan is especially good as the slowly unravelling Manson Ma.