This is a Hong Kong release kung fu horror type thing. It stars no one of any repute except Chow Yun-Fat. The cover has a picture of some tribal village with an image of a half naked woman pointlessly superimposed over the top. The release notes say, "A Saturday Night Spectacular," and indeed it is spectacularly bad. From minute one, we are in the realm of nonsense.

The first scene is outside a hospital where a load of unknown blokes have decided to hole themselves up inside, threaten everyone, and wave their guns around so the hero can turn up to save the day. The first question is, how have none of the 50 or so armed police not stopped it, earlier and what are the villains sitting in hospital for, anyway? To cut a long story short, the hero turns up and goes inside after one of the best film lines ever: the police chief tells him, "Hey, why don't you go in. I've heard you've got a reputation for being quite brave."

At this point a reporter woman turns up (who is quite obviously mid-20s but acts like a 12 year old) poses as the hero's nurse assistant (whom she amusingly clubs over the head with a brick), and she and the hero go inside. Once inside, the truly stupid character of the reporter messes everything up, a gunfight starts, and the hoards of police outside finally decide to go in. The fight itself is a mixture of kung fu and gunfire, with people being catapulted ridiculous distances from being shot. The scene ends with hero wincing in agony as what seems to be a large blister erupts.

The next notable scene is at Chow Yun-Fat's pad. He plays Wesley, the slightly strange cousin of the hero, and seems to know everything. It turns out said blister was gained during his adventure into the "jungle" (an unspecified lump of trees). We go into a flashback sequence. The bare bones of the flashback are: hero leads expedition of experts (?) into jungle (?) where they find an ancient EVIL cult that resides in a subtle "evil stone temple" which seems to be sucking evil black clouds into its tip. Then the hero spots a woman (whom he likes) being prepared for a sacrifice. Cue evil necromancer, complete with long swishy robe, evil squinty eyes, and bones 'n death paraphernalia. He wanders out to observe his victims and speaks. I defy anyone not to laugh. His voice is like a mixture of the Wicked Witch of the West and those bird things that said, "Hmmmm, Gelfling," in "Dark Crystal." The film loses any hope of crediblity and nose-dives into stupidity. The villain kills a man with a bad rubber doll and proclaims in his most silly voice yet, "Any more doubters!?" Nope not me. This line alone clinchs it.

Anyway hero goes to rescue a girl that escapes, but he and his fat western bearded friend get captured. So the villain stands and gloats for some time before killing the fat guy with green mush which inexplicably causes maggots to come out of him, and, in true "I'm coming apart"-style, he helps the process along by pulling open his fast decaying entrails and dying in a maggoty mess. Watch for extra maggots flying in from off camera during this scene.) The villain then proceeds to collect bullets from bodies and, while laughing, of course, shove them in the hero's mouth. Then he wanders off and leaves him to die. It is at this point we find out the earlier blister was in fact one of these seven bullets shooting out from within him (ouch, ouch); however, he doesn't seem too fazed and escapes by using the dead fat man's glasses to magnify the sun and burn his bindings. He runs to escape while bullets shoot out of him, and he collapses. Then a naked woman turns up out of the water -- only she's not naked, because there are thick black lines over the more sensitive areas.

Here are highlights from the rest of the movie:

- Skeleton demon fight scene. Does the skeleton look like "the boss monster," or what?

- Villains on bus. Marvel as they drive through four different elements to dispatch goons.

- Reporter's ability to save people unwittingly.

Bottom line: you must see this film.