Visible Secret (2001)
Reviewed by: trenty on 2002-06-09
Summary: A 4/10 movie.
As comparing with other ghost genre movies released recently, "Visible Secret" could have be one of the come back of Hong Kong style ghost movies.

This movie involves two main stories but somehow affected the main characters at the same time. The first story was about a man who lost his head during an car accident located at West-Central in Hong Kong. The second one is a romance ghost story about a girl who waits for her boyfriend. Although there are no relationship between both stories but they do affect the main characters.

Supposingly, the movie started off with a scary introduction where a man's head was lost during a car accident. However, when the movie moves on, this story seems to lose it's ending. This story did not mentioned until after the first half of the movie. Moreover, the computer graphics were not good enough to scare the viewers. As to the second story which was considered as a romance kind of ghost story, a great disappointment here. I expected this story would be another romance ghost story that made by previous films. But all I got was a confusing story after all. In general, the story telling in this movie was a mess. The script was probably being edited a lot of time and messed up the whole plot of this movie. The reason I mention this is because there supposed to have another story involved here. As for the details, I personally do not know much. However, as far as I know was that the other story was about a whiteface woman (a ghost I suppose) sitting at the MTR. Due to the disturbance matters against the audiences at the MTR, those movie posters, which were posted at the MTR station, were taken off. Rather, I think because of this matter, the whole story was taken off too from the movie itself. I do expect this story to in be the movie because that whiteface woman is kind of scary. Still, I expect more from the 'taken-off' story more than those two that were in the film.

As to the performances, Eason Chan has his main role in the movie along with Shu Qi. Both actor/actress were well done. However, I still find Shu Qi's speaking were not good. Other supporting roles such as Sam Lee and Cheung Tat Ming were at their standard. Moreover, they do bring some humorous scenes in the movie.

To conclude, this movie could have be a come back for Hong Kong style scary movies. However, due to the confusing story telling involved, the movie resulted as a mess. I will not recommend this movie because the plot was a mess. I can consider this movie as boring and confusing.
Reviewer Score: 4