Saviour of the Soul is a brilliant high camp Hong Kong extravaganza featuring everything that the true fan loves about Hong
Kong films. The plot revolves around Ching (Andy Lau) and Kwan (Anita Mui), who are 'city soldiers' along with Chuen.
Silver Fox (Aaron Kwok) comes to kill Kwan to get revenge on her for foiling the plans of Silver Fox's master. In the process,
he kills Chuen. Kwan, who loves Ching, decides that the best way to protect him is to drive him away. This leaves Ching with
Chuen's 15 year old sister (who develops a crush on him) while he searches for Kwan, whom he loves. Anita Mui also plays
her own a twin sister, a strange woman with a weird voice (which I think might have been dubbed in by someone else).
Carina Lau plays Madam Pet (yes, that's what the subtitles said), whom Ching spurns.

That is the soap opera plot of Saviour of the Soul in a nutshell. It is apparently based on the manga City Hunter, which has
also inspired a Jackie Chan film. There is a lot of backstory which seems to be assumed in this film. First of all, what are city
soldiers?! The setting of the film appears to be a sort of combination of Hong Kong and Gotham City and wherever Dick
Tracy lives, with fabulously designed, gorgeously colored sets. The look of this film is superb, and reason enough to see it.

This film has pretty much everything in it. Romance, drama, great flying fu style action scenes, blood spurts, some goofy
special effects, and pretty much everything else you can imagine except a backstory (you can't have anything). Andy Lau is
in fine form, bouncing from comedy to heroism without missing a beat. Carina Lau does a decent impression of Brigitte Lin's
icy stare of death, though no one does it quite like Brigitte. Anita Mui does double duty as the romantic butt-kicking lead,
Kwan, and her weird sister, who has a number of comic moments with Andy Lau. The young girl (Gloria Yip?) has the most
boring role as about half the scenes with her in it seem to involve her crying for one reason or another.

If you enjoy frenetic Hong Kong action-comedy-dramas (and if you don't why do you watch Hong Kong films anyway?) then
see Saviour of the Soul.