Fantastic!

Amateur movie with Big budget

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

I bought this movie from Tai Wah Video of Singapore. I just sort of randomly picked a movie out of the bin. It was in PAL format, but I paid a company in Austin $20 to convert it to VHS for me. One of my Chinese friends watched it and said it was a stupid film. But I thought it was worth a watch. Some of the English subtitles seemed to go off the screen, nevertheless I was able to follow the story more or less.It's about model photography and a magic orb, and it takes place in some urban Chinese city (Hong Kong maybe), then later in San Francisco.The music was so-so.I like to expose myself to foreign languages and cultures - I'm not really looking for the best seller, you see. So I recommend watching this film for the foreign exposure. There's a funny goofy guy that helps break the monotony.