Demi-Haunted (2002)
Reviewed by: danton on 2003-01-03
I'm not a big fan of Eason Chan and his propensity to overact, and this movie didn't do much to change my mind. The film has some good moments, but feels too disjointed to be truly engaging -- the stylistic and narrative jumps between the period scenes with Joey and Nic Tse, the Cantonese Opera scenes (lots of them - and even I could tell that the singing was just BAADD), and the modern scenes (which feature a lot of gratuitous rapping, and at one point even some Twist dancing...) felt jarring, there was one too many storylines, a rather weak and unsatisfying resolution, and so I walked away rather bored.

On the plus side, production values were good, Anthony Wong for once actually tried hard, and the film did have some eye candy and not too much sentimentality.

Marginal recommendation at best.