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Johnny's comments:
90s update continues with two more from the Raped By
An Angel series.
Raped By An Angel 3: Sexual
Fantasy Of The Chief Executive with its unwieldy
title, takes a detour into something that is more of
an erotic thriller in the vein of something like
Disclosure. Anyway, a serial rapist is raping women in
the office of a high profile chief executive who is
running for political office. But that's not his
problem because his problem is he gets visions of
naked women and it drives him crazy but not in the
good way. He promotes his 'retarded' (everyone in the
movie's words, not mine) secretary (Pinky Cheung),
which gives her new confidence and the chief executive
starts fantasising about her. Meanwhile, an old
girlfriend of the chief executive, now a psychiatrist
(Angie Cheung), arrives in town and old feelings start
to stir. One night, the secretary is the next victim
of the office rapist and she accuses the chief
executive of doing it. He strenuously denies it and
the DNA test also comes back confirming that it was
him but the secretary's brother, a cop and his partner
aren't completely convinced. The chief executive's
alibi is that he went to the psychiatrist and slept
with her but something doesn't add up and things
spiral out-of-control for everyone. Did the chief
executive actually do it? Who survives in the end? Who
knows, this movie takes a turn for the ridiculous when
the secretary gets raped, a revenge plot involving a
helluva lot of hypnosis and then a final ten minutes
where pretty much everyone cops it is really
something. The movie starts with the same comedic tome
as the previous movie and it's even more tasteless, a
scene involving a rape victim's mother is pretty
gross, but at least it has the sense to give that up
after a terrible start. Constantly calling the
secretary 'retarded' is laughably stupid and she
doesn't really do anything to deserve it. The plot is
a mess and then the movie ends with the office rapist
still on the loose. The best can be said is that at
least it's different from the second movie, doesn't
mean it's better though.
Raped By An Angel 4: The Rapist's
Union, well, begins with a former CIA agent who's
actually a complicated serial rapist who breaks out a
couple of notorious rapists from prison and gives them
sanctuary and women to rape as the former CIA agent
uses them to get his prize, his famous writer
neighbour (Suki Kwan). But to get to her, you got to
get to her through her friends so he kidnaps her
actress friend (Fan Yeung, back for more after number
2) and has his way with her. She escapes to her
friends house but she is caught and killed. The cops
(one of which is the writer's boyfriend and also
Athena Chu reprises her role from part 2) are still
looking for the escapee rapists and get the help of
reformed serial rapist (Anthony Wong from Infernal
Affairs in a silly cameo) who magically deduces that
the CIA agent is involved. Well, the cops look to set
up the former CIA agent and the escapees by using the
writer and her remaining friends as bait which goes
about as well as expected leaving the CIA agent alone
with the writer. Will he get what he wants? Great, now
the rapists have unionised and are looking to better
their lot... This movie doesn't really bother much
with the comedy but it may be the most tasteless of
all the movies. The movie is surprisingly smug, the
former CIA agent is so full of himself with his tech
gadgets and moral superiority over everyone and his
assistants are real pieces of shit, one of them is
incredibly bothersome with his niggling and their
murders are particular nasty. But the plot is so
unnecessary, the former CIA agent has put together an
elaborate plan which seems like busy work to get to
80-odd minutes. Anthony Wong's appearance is so silly
and his role is basically there to forward the plot
for the dumb cops. This is just a bad, bad movie...
Raped by An Angel 3
1998
Pinky
Cheung film clip (collages below)
Raped by An Angel 4
1998
Fan
Yeung film clip (collages below)
 
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