Supercheap real-life disaster story falls prey to superdumb sub-AIRPORT-style melodramatics and characterizations, trotting out the usual passenger list — the heroic co-pilot (Ray Lui), his stewardess girlfriend, the businessman and his conniving mistress, the snotty movie star, her panty-sniffing stalker, the folk singer, the benevolent doctor, the Buddhist monk and many more — then killing them all in a fiery stock-footage crash allegedly caused by a hat trick involving lightning, an open bottle of nitric acid and a bunch of exploding cigarette lighters! Shameless exploitation from the Mainland, badly directed and overacted, elicits tons of unintentional laughs.
Review of Yi chu jing hun
Yi chu jing hun
(1983)
Made in mainland china, so you can rule out an actual villain . . .
8 April 2011