Somewhere in the New Territories, Uncle Ngau (Eric Tsang) runs a
late-night-diner - for ghosts. He does that upon advice of famed exorcist
Mrs Bud (Law Lan), who told him he needs a ghost army to defend his son
Fai (Edmund Leung) against evil ghost Keung (Benny Lai), who wants revenge
on Ngau because a former incarnation of Ngau killed his wife and son - and
now Keung is about to do the same to Ngau, even if Ngau's current
incarnation is the nicest person on the planet. Ngau's son merely thinks
his dad is crazy though, and when he hears what the land Ngau owns and
runs the diner on is worth, he's desperate to sell it to Sally (Iris Wong),
a sexy landgrabber who uses every trick in the book to get Fai to persuade
his father to sign over the land to her - so she can sell it at great
gain. Eventually, Fai even steals the land from his father by signing a
deed with his stamp, and knocks out dad just to do Sally's bidding - who
has of course promised him a night of sin in return, a promise she at
least keeps. As soon as the land is sold, Keung has free access to Kai,
and he promptly attacks, too, but fortunately, Fai's fiancée Fa (Kei Kei)
and her foster fathers, Troublesome Night-regulars Kou (Kau
Man Lung) and Pat (Kwai Chung), have long seen through Sally's pretense,
chase her down, get the deed back from her and destroy it. With Ngau's
land back in his hands, his ghost army returns and they defend Fai to the
fiercest - but even they prove no match for Keung, so ultimately, Ngau
gives his life to save his son, a deal Keung is (rather surprisingly)
satisfied with. And Fai? He takes over his dad's ghost diner just so
he can serve his ghost dad every night ... One of the better
films of the Troublesome Night-series, which really isn't
saying anything much given the lack of quality of previous episodes.
Anyways, other than the films before part 15, this one profits from
stringent storytelling, and the shenanigans of the series' regulars take back seat to let the
actual story unfold. All that said though, the story at hand is neither
very good nor very compelling, and the directorial effort to carry it all
is best called flat - so in a word, this is no movie to get even remotely
excited about ...
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