Good start, but then it gets ruined

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Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Hong Kong's extreme Category III rating allows producers and directors to cater to the sickest desires of their audiences by focusing on violence, sex, sexual violence and scenes of depravity normally not found in mainstream cinema. During the 1990s, there was a boom in such productions, with the most popular inevitably starring Anthony Wong as some kind of crazed killer or pervert.THE EBOLA SYNDROME is one of the best-known of its kind and that's no surprise; this is one hell of a ride of a film, chock-full of bad taste scenes in which the writer tries to go out of his way to offend everybody watching. The protagonist, played by Wong, is a guy who goes around raping women and eventually contracting and spreading the Ebola virus, which leads to much unpleasantness.From the opening set-piece you know what you're in for with this one: tons of bad language, naked women and gross gore effects. The directors throws in animal dissection, autopsies and all kinds of sickening stuff involving food production that's guaranteed to turn your stomach. Rape and murder are commonplace, and yet at the same time there's daft comedy to offset the darkness. It's all portrayed so over the top and ridiculously that none of it is disturbing.What surprised me most about THE EBOLA SYNDROME is that it's a well made movie comparable with other Hong Kong films of the 1990s. The technical values are strong and the acting isn't too shabby either; Wong is a commanding actor and you can see why he's enjoyed mainstream as well as cult success. Yes, this is an unpleasant and sometimes childish film in the way it seeks out one depravity after another, but at the same time it's undeniably entertaining and it goes down avenues that Hollywood wouldn't dare. The ending rampage is by far my favourite part of the movie and has to be seen to be believed.

Oh, Sheeiitt!!! Where to start with this one??? I'll try to be brief with the summary: **** Spoilers Abound...**** Kai (Wong) kills his Boss because he get's caught f'ing the Boss's old-lady. On the run, he relocates from Hong Kong to South Africa and ends up working - where else - but a Chinese restaurant (wink, wink to THE UNTOLD STORY...). It obviously costs too much to buy pigs for the restaurant in the city, so Kai and his boss decide to be thrifty and buy their pork from some tribesman who live far outside the city - always a smart idea), and who obviously don't know the going rate of pork...Anyway, the village is infested with Ebola, and when Kai decides to rape a local girl during this excursion, he is infected. Just so happens that Kai is one of the 1 in ten million lucky individuals who can carry the Ebola virus without suffering it's hideous side-effects (extreme fever, epilepsy-like seizures, and liquefied insides, among other fun things...). Feeling cheated by his new Boss's low wages and the Boss's wife's constant nagging, he decides to kill them, too. After raping the Boss's wife and infecting her with Ebola, he hacks them up and uses their remains to make "African Buns" (basically a Big Mac, or Whopper, depending on your preference...). Kai "unknowingly" infects others while in South Africa, but upon finding the Boss's secret stash of cash, decides to "get-while-the-gettin's-good", and heads back to Hong Kong. There, he infects some hookers and some other random citizens and then goes back to his original Boss's old-lady for some "seems-like-old-times" pussy. Of course, our upstanding citizen infects her too, and is FINALLY apprehended by the cops. Kai runs the streets spitting on everyone in sight and screaming "EBOLA, EBOLA" like an absolute f'ing lunatic!!!! I gotta tell ya, friends...It doesn't get much better than this. The story (although rife with plot holes and idiocy) was one of the most refreshing things this sick-o has seen in a long time. Completely original, disgusting, yet laugh-out-loud hilarious - EBOLA SYNDROME is not one to miss. This type of thing is by far not for everyone, but if you've seen THE UNTOLD STORY, or DOCTOR LAMB (or almost any other HK Cat III perversion), then you know what you're in for. Casual horror viewers need not apply - for you "hardcore" heads out there, buy this one IMMEDIATELY. As good as THE UNTOLD STORY, and better than DOCTOR LAMB. 9 out of 10...Highly Recommended, and Gahdzuhentheit ;)

I have no frame of reference as to how much of this film was cut from the actually originally HK release. However after doing some serious research, I have come to the conclusion that this film is only missing 3 minutes from the original disease infested masterpiece. It appears that all current DVD versions of this film came from the same print (which is actually the only print known to be in existence). Therefore, this is the best version any of us are likely to ever have the pleasure of viewing...That being said, I found this film to be incredibly entertaining and highly amusing. Once again, director Herman Yau and Cat III Master, Anthony Wong have teamed up for an exploitative winner. The first film I had the pleasure of viewing from this winning team was the amazing 'The Untold Story'. That film was based on a true story and was much more serious in tone. This little gem was much more exploitative and over-the-top...I absolutely love the plot of this masterpiece. The movie starts out with a bang (literally). Anthony Wong is caught having sex with his bosses wife. He then quickly and violently dispenses with both of them. Now of course he needs to disappear so he heads to South Africa where he obtains work in a filthy restaurant. The price of meat becomes too much for him and his boss to handle so they head into the bush to acquire some 'bush-meat'. On the way back to the city he rapes one of the natives. This woman happened to have the Ebola Virus...Luckily for us, Mr. Wong is a rare one-in-a-million case of individual who will carry the Ebola Virus without succumbing to it's terrible deadly side-effects. The rest of the film is a joy to watch as Mr. Wong careless spreads the disease to the terrified populations of South Africa and Hong Kong in various entertaining ways...Anthony Wong is pitch perfect as the perverted psychopath and Herman Yau once again provides the deft direction needed to please use gore & sleaze fiends...I don't want to give away too much of the plot (like it matters), but as a fan of sleaze, exploitation, and gratuitous entertainment I can wholeheartedly recommend this sweet little film. If you are a fan of wonderful Cat III filth directly from Hong Kong, the 'Ebola Syndrome' does not disappoint....

This nasty little motion picture belongs to a class of Hong Kong cinema known as Category 3 films, movies expressly designed to appeal to the worst in cinema-goers of all ages, but preferably adolescents at heart. Ebola Syndrome boldly reaches depths of depravity and offensiveness which other movies can only dream of. I found it a curiously charming experience, which had the virtue at least of not being boring for a single second and of featuring some of the most relentlessly gratuitous moments which have ever been committed to celluloid. There's no excusing Ebola Syndrome; no self-regarding, heart-on-their-sleeve "I strive to be a better person" pundit will ever appear on your TV screen extolling its virtues and fibbing to you how it made them a better person, encouraged them to "go for their dream", awoke them from some terrible prejudice or made the world one iota of a better place. For this, if nothing else, it deserves some praise.Ebola Syndrome is jam-packed with enough plot for three films. It begins inauspiciously, with the low-life protagonist Kai - perhaps the least sympathetic character in movie history - being caught screwing his boss's wife and almost getting himself castrated. He fights his way out of the situation, bloodily kills the boss, his wife and a flunky, and goes on the run to South Africa. There, he slaves away in the kitchen of a Chinese Restaurant, underpaid and the brunt of his new boss's wife's contempt. One day, his new boss takes him to a local Zulu village (in pursuit of cheap meat supplies); it just so happens that the village is in the grip of an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, which our dirty little protagonist proceeds to contract by raping a suffering tribeswoman on the banks of the village stream. This scene, with his coitus climaxing with her death rattle, is the most depraved moment in a film which truly earns the title of a feast of depravity. Kai turns out to be the one in ten million person who can contract the Ebola virus and not break out in its terrible symptoms: complete meltdown of the bodily organs coinciding with fits and frothing at the mouth. After killing his new boss and wife (this guy goes through bosses like Harold Shipmen went through patients), Kai returns to home as the Typhoid Annie of Ebola, with his least bit of bodily liquid (bloody, saliva, come) being highly infections, causing corpses to drops dead in his wake as an epidemic grips Hong Kong.It doesn't take a genius to work out that Ebola is being used here as a exaggeration of HIV, and so the film is a kind of hypochondriac maniac's nightmare of A.I.D.S. Kai is an enormously inflated hallucination of the fabled Patient Zero, the mythical A.I.D.S sufferer who supposedly took the virus round the capitols of the Western World in the early 1980s. By the film's absolutely berserk final moments, the anti-hero has progressed from a psychotic flunky with a brutal temper and a penchant for muttering about being "bullied" by all and sundry, to a walking, talking and running wild personification of infectiousness, careering around the streets, spitting infected saliva at people, screaming "Ebola! Ebola" before being shot at, set fire to and rubbed out like some creature from a 50s horror film. The adolescently mean-minded ending has a dog which has feasted on a bit of the dead Kai's flesh licking an ice cream which he is sharing with a little girl. No one is safe from Ebola, there is no cure, the whole world is going to hideous-death hell in a handcart.The film is, as I say, absolutely inexcusable. It is made for the worst of motives, by the meanest of minds (although palpably minds possessed of chutzpah, cheek, imagination and a goodly amount of film-making talent). It is flagrantly offensive to any civilised sensibilities. It is packed with gratuitous moments - such as a POV shot from inside the protagonists mouth, showing animated specks of saliva flying from between his rotten teeth - and includes what must be the single most gratuitous shot ever included in a film, where our hero's taxi runs over a rat FOR ABSOLUTELY NO REASON AT ALL. Anthony Wong's performance as Kai is utterly insane: grimacing and moaning, improvising little bits of mean activity to ornament every scene; it's one piece of acting which never was gonna win any Golden Globe award, yet he's absolutely mesmerising from start to finish, as it the rotten, stinking, mean spirited, foul-mouthed and dirty-minded film which showcases him. I am certain that Ebola Syndrome would give any movie a run for its money as the most offensive film ever made; equally certainly, it is one of the most entertaining and compelling films of all time, from its first 5 minutes which ticks off every exploitation ingredient in the book (rape, violence, bloody murder, cruelty to children and animals) to its insane, positively Pythonesque apocalyptic finale.