Chat ho chai goon (2001)

Chat ho chai goon (2001). Chat ho chai goon: Directed by Herman Yau. With Andy Chi-On Hui, Tat-Ming Cheung, Loletta Lee, Benny Li Shuan Yan. When a wounded police officer wakes up at the hospital, he discovers that he can see ghosts.

“It is true that filmmakers get mellower as they get older. Itu0026#39;s the only reason to explain how Herman Yau could go from The Untold Story and The Ebola Syndrome to this rather tame thriller. Fortunately, heu0026#39;s become a better director, cuz this is better than his earlier Cat. III fare.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAndy Hui plays a cop that goes into a coma after a shootout with some thieves. When he awakens two years later, he is suddenly able to see ghosts. Turns out, this comes in handy, because a nurse rapist/murderer has been on the loose while he was asleep, and ghosts of the victims like to report themselves missing (?!?). Only in Hong Kong…u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eFor a movie thatu0026#39;s got some really wacky crap going on, this isnu0026#39;t that bad. There are some nice touches here: the ghosts that help with the investigation, and the clever way that Hui communicates with them (so as not to seem like heu0026#39;s talking to himself); the cheap scares of having gross ghosts just pop out of nowhere; the hospital ghost taunting the oblivious killer. But thereu0026#39;s also some silliness: the out-of-left-field identity of the killer (although there is a clever red herring scene before they catch him); the badly translated transition title cards that make it seem as though the movie is going backwards; the ridiculous, yet somehow, appropriate ending. And, to show that the influence of Ring has reached the Chinese mainland, there is a ghost that, of course, looks just like Sadako. All and all, a surprisingly enjoyable movie; better than some of the supposedly u0026quot;betteru0026quot; Japanese horror movies that everyone (me included) loves so much.”