On a safari through Nepal with his girlfriend Ida (Lam Kit Ying), Joe
(Choy Yun-Fat) has a terrible accident when he falls off an elephant and
almost drowns in a river that drags him to God-knows-where. He is saved by
native girl Sheila (Emily Chu) though, who misteriously disappears before
Ida can catch up with him. Back in Hong Kong, Joe is condemned to a
lengthy stay in the hospital - but then Sheila shows up again, magically
cures him, and the two have a wonderful time together and become lovers -
much to the dismay of Ida of course, who pretty soon breaks up with Joe.
Despite his affair with Sheila though, Joe doesn't want to break up with
Ida, so he tries to make up with her, when zombies attack ... There is
one thing about Sheila I haven't mentioned yet: She is not only a witch,
she is also in an age-old mortal combat with an ancient warrior (Dick
Wei), who has decided to pick on Joe to lure Sheila out into the open, and
he does so when Joe is trying to get back together with Ida. Sheila saves
the both of them, but loses her own life in the process. With Sheila gone,
Joe knows he has to avenge her death - and so he does in an extended fight
in which he defeats and kills the ancient warrior once and for all. Many
people who have only seen a small selection of his films consider Ching
Siu-Tung a genius - while actually he is an incredibly uneven filmmaker
with strokes of ingenuity. Witch from Nepal though is definitely
not the work of a genius, it's a clichéed, cheesy and above all tiresome
blend of romance, horror and Hong Kong style action, but with next to no
extraordinary setpieces, a definitive lack in narrative finesse and a
bunch of boring characters who are at best one-dimensional. A definite
waste of time!
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