A supernatural horror film that starts off with a bit too many Ring like scares, then seems to be going well, with an entertaining performance by Ekin Cheng as an alcoholic cop, but the end gets too convoluted, and even seems to unexplainably double back on itself in an ending that while enjoyably dark, doesn’t work with the double ending. And the dark premise seems to make it that everyone in the world would be getting possessed, it is just too easy. An enjoyable popcorn flick, but I wouldn’t pay for it, even though it is great to see Ekin playing his age, and doing such a great job.

Shawn Yue plays a uniformed police officer named Lee Kwok Keung who on a routine traffic stop, ends up finding a dead child in the back in of the car, and the perp ends up shooting him 5 times, and is only stopped when the trunk opens and the dead little girl sits up and distracts the murderer allowing Lee to kill him. Lee recovers, miraculously with a cast on one arm only, and wants to go back to work, though when he refuses to remove the girl from his report, since she had been dead for 4 hours when he found her, he is transferred to a unit called the Miscellaneous Affairs Department or MAD for short. Lee isn’t too happy and his girlfriend (Fiona Xie) notices something different, but continues to live with him. Lee goes to his department in a dilapidated warehouse, where he meets a kid in a wheelchair playing Jenga, and waits for his boss. The kid gets a call, and Lee is sent to a pool where a girl drowned and the worker hears screaming. There he meets his new boss, the alcoholic Lee (Ekin Cheng). Lee sees the dead girl, but Wong gets him to remember Rule #1 that there are no ghosts, and there is always a logic explanation, this being hair caught in a drain.

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At first Lee sees the truth in what Wong is saying, but slowly begins to realize that he is seeing supernatural things, which come so to a head in an old theater where Wong is talking to the ghost of an old man, who infects a woman, and possesses her, and Wong must shoot her to stop it from spreading.Wong explains that ghosts can infect the living, and when they leave them they leave an empty shell, and the human must be killed to stop the spread.

A rash of young girl suicides is hitting the city, and they are investigating to find the ghost that is causing it.

Wong is still in love with his ex wife, but he does flirt with a strange young delivery girl (Stephanie Che Yuen Yuen) who comes to deliver food and booze, but he intends on retiring and going to start a dance school again with his ex wife, and give up the job for good.

When Lee gets his cast off he finds strange numbers on his skin which leads him to a nurse, one that Wong gets to from a Suicide girl, and they realize the ghost was in her, and second suicide girl, and head to the girls school, where a ton of girls are killed, including the nice delivery girl, and a female cop is taken. Lee confronts the cop, and realizes it is the serial killer he killed, and he is going to his apartment to get his pregnant girlfriend, and he rushes back, but she is OK.

They return to the station to find the wheelchair kid has been killed, and a photograph is circled in blood, and even though it is Wong’s last day, they go to his and his ex-wife’s dilapidated old dance school to kill whomever arrives, but it is Wong’s wife, and he tries to convince Lee not to kill her, and they dance, but she takes him over, and Lee kills them both, and is made the head of the department.

We then see the scene again, and in fact Lee is the serial killer, because when he returned home it was not OK, the female cop was dead, and his girlfriend was taken over and touched him, possessing him, and leaving her an empty shell. Lee then killed the wheelchair kid, and set up Wong, and killed him there, taking over. It ends with him as the cop running MAD, and sleeping with his mindless girlfriend and putting cigarette butts out on her back.

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I like how dark the film is, but if ghosts could posses so easily, and the humans have to be killed to stop the ghost there would be a huge body count, and they would many more people doing this job. Also the confusing double ending doesn’t work for me, as it feels like the director wanted it both ways, but couldn’t decide which way he wanted to go, so tried to go both, and that just didn’t work at all. That and the girl ghosts at the start made me think too much of the Ring, but Ekin Cheng was great, and it is worth seeing for fans of his.