Don't Look Back... Or You'll Be Sorry!! (2000)
Reviewed by: resdog781 on 2000-07-31
Summary: She sees dead people.....ALL THE TIME
My dad seemed to enjoy this one for all of the HK slang that I didn't get (because I'm an ABC. Don't hold that against me) But personally, I thought this movie sucked. It started out with an interesting premise: A guy named Hwa and a girl named Lisa are newlyweds, and invite the girl's mother Marianne over for a while. Of course, she has a split personality. Whenever the daughter's around, she's a sweet old lady. Whenever she's not, she turns out to be a real bitch, sticking her umbrella up her son-in-law's ass when he drops the luggage, and so forth. I thought this was going to be the whole story, basically a live action version of that Warner Brothers cartoon about the singing frog. But nope, leaving in a huff, the mother-in-law gets hit by a truck and goes to the afterworld, where she meets her dead husband Elvis (but the subtitles kept calling him "Evils". WTF?) She comes back to the land of the living with the amazing (and totally original) power of being able to "see dead people....all the time" and communicate with them as well. Meanwhile an angry female spirit possesses the daughter, and only Marianne can see it. So she ends up trying to find the spirit's still-living boyfriend to coax her out of possessing the daughter. A big old mish-mosh of unoriginal ideas (the Warner Brothers cartoon, "The Sixth Sense", duh), predictability of the plot (Does Marianne find the boyfriend and make the ghost happy? Hmm...) and not a lot of suspense made this one a veritable crapfest. Wong Jing's done better.