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When mild mannered garage owner Fatty Cheung (Kent Chang) one day
finds his wife (Lily Li) in bed with another man, he, instead of making
a scene, goes to a bar & gets heavily drunk. In that state he makes
the acquaintance of hooker Fanny (Esther Kwan), who gets him in touch
with a hitman who Fatty mistakenly orders to kill his wife. When Fatty
comes home the next day sobered up & completely oblivious to what he
has done the previous night, same night has sudden repercussions as
suddenly a group of killers storms in, killing both Fatty's wife &
her lover, leaving Fatty the only witness for police inspector Man
(Danny Lee). But not only that, the killers, poor Vietnamese immigrants
after every Penny they can get, now want to force Fatty to pay the total
fee for killing his wife, & when he fails to comply, they burn down
his garage. Out of fear, Fatty leaves Hong Kong for the mainland, where,
in a house he owns, the violent gang the Rats is lodging, who Fatty asks
for help since he is on friendly terms with one of them, Wah (Fok Sui
Wah). This though results in a violent gangwar, with Fatty, hooker Fanny
- who for some reasons unknown is around again - & Wah ending up
captives of the Vietnamese. But Wah's brother Ching Fung (Simon Yam)
won't let his brother down & shoots his way through all the
Vietnamese gangsters to get the trio free - but at their escape, Wah
dies from wounds inflicted while in captivity, & Ching Fung blames
his death on Fatty, who makes a natrrow escape & actually goes to
the police. But meanwhile Ching Fung has taken Fatty's mother &
daughter hostage & demands to get Fatty in exchange for them to
exact his revenge. When the police fails to promptly comply, he throws
Fatty's mother out of a window to her death. Now Fatty is willing to
sacrifice himself for his daughter, but Ching Fung devices a way to
abduct both Fatty & the girl, & he burns her before his very
eyes. When he, not content even with that, teases Fatty with the girl's
burnt corpse, Fatty's anger finally explodes & in a violent finale
he manages to bru8tally beat up & in the end blow up Ching Fung. He
leaves the scene half-crazed, but then there's Fanny, who will nurse him
back to sanity ... What could have been a delightfully
macabre, extremely dark comedy about a small wage slave accidently
raising hell on earth (the premise alone sounds like a joke), is for some reason played straight, with an
emphasis on ultraviolence & gore, while completely toning down the
absurdity & sarcasm of the plot, invariably going the easy way of
the cheap shock instead of having second thoughts. Also, the movie shows
remarkably little compassion for any of its characters - & after a
while, the viewer does the same, deriving it of much of its efficiency.
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