Again about the vampires. An ordinary Hong Kong boy named Tim (Babijon Choi) one evening encounters a real vampire in a dark alley. To help Tim come experts from the secret service for the fight against bloodsuckers, but the guy has time to bite. However, he does not become a vampire himself (he has no idea where he has immunity), which forces fighters with evil spirits to take him into their ranks.
So, we have a comedy (specific and amateur, as, indeed, all Asian humor) about Jiangshi. Jiangshi is such a special kind of Chinese vampires who jump. Films about them were very popular in China/Hong Kong before, and now they must have been decided to remember again.
Why do these vampires only jump and stretch their arms forward? Few people can say for sure. There is a version that the deceased were dressed in too narrow clothes, constraining movement. Whether it's true or not, who knows... The main thing is that the creators did not particularly delve into the folklore, tried not to throw out the words from the song, that is, to convey the legendary part as accurately as possible.
There are several storylines in the picture, but not all of them work. Curiously, the idea of a classified vampire-hunting service—which includes, for example, a martial artist (Chin Siu-Ho), a spell expert (Yuen Chun-Yan) and a weapons connoisseur (Lo Meng), who also have their own “memory washing” a la “Men in Black” for casual witnesses in the form of herbal tea—is not as deep as one would like. The film is severely hampered by the line of Tim’s parents – both were once members of this service, but died “in the line of duty”, and periodically, when the authors think that it is time to add “dramatism” to the plot, they recall it, seeking only irritation. Because it is too clogged and beaten.
Only the romantic line is nice. Tim encounters a rare kind of vampire – a girl who can be “humanized” as much as possible, hides her from his colleagues and begins a charming romance with her. There is nothing new here, too, but Lin Mingcheng, who plays the vampire, is so charmingly “minimishna” that you involuntarily feel sorry every time the action returns to her.
Actually, "Department," the movie is in many ways pleasant, sometimes even funny. Personally, I loved the moment when the protagonist tells a police officer (Erik Tsang) his story. He talks for a long time, and in the end the guard of order erupts with such a tirade: "You said so much, I did not understand anything, repeat it again."
You will not be laughing every second. And so, once again, I reserve that the picture turned out to be an amateur.
I loved it.
9 out of 10