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Mio (Hisako Shirata) arrives at the run-down Ocean Hotel, to look for
her twin sister Asa, but everyone - personnel and guests of the hotel
alike - are completely terrified, because she looks exactly the same as
Asa ... and apparently something gruesome has happened to Asa a while
back.
Soon, Chan Lone (Joel Chan), Asa's sort-of pimp, comes to speak with
Mio ... and as a result throws himself from the hotel roof onto the
pavement. Later, more deaths, some suicide some murders, happen, and Mio
it turns out does not only look like a splitting image of Asa, she also
can read thoughts, and soon enough she knows that young gangster Tony
(Samuel Pang) is responsible for her sister's disappearance and possible
death.
The police starts their investigations, but Ching (Tony Ho), the
officer in charge, seems to be even more down-on-his-luck than most of the
tenants staying at the hotel - he has just lots his partner in a shoot-out
and has found out his wife cheats on him. And when he finally thinks he is
getting to the bottom of the case, his own partner (Lai Ying Chau) - under
the influence of Mio, no doubt - turns against him.
Ultimately, Ching finds himself strangling Mio, when she lets him see
what happened to her sister: Asa was raped by Tony in front of everybody
in the hotel, guests and personnel alike, but noone intervened, not even
when he strangled her to death.
Finally, Mio loses consciousness because of Ching's strangling, after
which he carries her to the cellar (but don't ask why), where he is
knocked out by Tony, who then proceeds to stab Mio repeatedly before Ching
returns to his senses and kills him. Then Ching finds Asa's corpse, aslo
in the cellar. Suddenly both Asa and Mio come back to life and close in on
Ching ...
In the meantime, someone at the police station has found out that Asa
never had a twin sister ... but how can it be then that Asa- supposedly
dead - and Mio - supposedly non-existent - have taken over the Ocean Hotel
?
Undeniably, this film has an interesting plot and some quite chilling
scenes. But the finished product is far from a masterpiece, on one hand
the screenplay of the film is way too sketchy to really work, on the other
hand it gives up too much information way too soon - after about 10
minutes one's pretty much sure that it's Tony who has Asa on his
conscience, and the other guests seem to have a less than honorable role
inhis crime - but still sells it to the audience as new information at the
climax, and finally, way too many subplots, like the supporting
characters' life stories, are hinted at but never resolved, as they seem
to have no connection to the maibn plot at all (but then why hint at
them).
Pity, this could have been really good.
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