When I first sat down and watched this, I did not know what to expect, I had not read any reviews of the film, and so it had no hype behind it. My first impressions was it was pretty weird, a very black comedy. Note my review contains spoilers about plot details.
The story is set in a busy HK Hospital, where all the Doctors, Nurses, Cleaners, etc are slackers, and to make matters worse they are being backed up by the high management, a group of shady looking individuals who you only ever see in the dark, apart from when they look out of there window blinds and you see there bloodshot eyes. Enter Celia Cheung as Yan a headstrong nurse who along with two other doctors, Ekin Cheng as Joe and Jordan Chan as Jim, decide to stop the rot and do everything themselves, from working on trying to save the patients, stocking up the medical supplies, fixing computers, cleaning the toilets, even doing a bit of spot welding on staff cars who need it. To begin with they get abuse from there fellow workers, but this slowly turns to respect and they decide to help out the heroic trio (no pun intended), then just when everything seems to be going well there is a blackout in Hong Kong and a large scale traffic accident which is the films end, sort of.
This is basically the films plot, the humour is very dark and it kept me interested because I did not know what was going to happen next, there are loads of surreal touches like talking cars, a dead man who dies and becomes a ghost and chases the two doctors around the ward. There is also a running gag throughout the first part of the film concerning Yan (Celia) who saves a beggars life at the start of the film, he then keeps coming back to Yan saying he loves her, and she keeps rejecting him as he goes through some dramatic changes, until he is literally unrecognizable from what he looked like at first.
The big question is will you like this film, I would say yes, because like the trash that Hollywood splurges out, year after year, its unpredictable, enjoyable, and dark, in a way only Asian cinema can do it, but be warned the humour is very Chinese and it may be too different in style to a conventional USA comedy film for example.
The story is set in a busy HK Hospital, where all the Doctors, Nurses, Cleaners, etc are slackers, and to make matters worse they are being backed up by the high management, a group of shady looking individuals who you only ever see in the dark, apart from when they look out of there window blinds and you see there bloodshot eyes. Enter Celia Cheung as Yan a headstrong nurse who along with two other doctors, Ekin Cheng as Joe and Jordan Chan as Jim, decide to stop the rot and do everything themselves, from working on trying to save the patients, stocking up the medical supplies, fixing computers, cleaning the toilets, even doing a bit of spot welding on staff cars who need it. To begin with they get abuse from there fellow workers, but this slowly turns to respect and they decide to help out the heroic trio (no pun intended), then just when everything seems to be going well there is a blackout in Hong Kong and a large scale traffic accident which is the films end, sort of.
This is basically the films plot, the humour is very dark and it kept me interested because I did not know what was going to happen next, there are loads of surreal touches like talking cars, a dead man who dies and becomes a ghost and chases the two doctors around the ward. There is also a running gag throughout the first part of the film concerning Yan (Celia) who saves a beggars life at the start of the film, he then keeps coming back to Yan saying he loves her, and she keeps rejecting him as he goes through some dramatic changes, until he is literally unrecognizable from what he looked like at first.
The big question is will you like this film, I would say yes, because like the trash that Hollywood splurges out, year after year, its unpredictable, enjoyable, and dark, in a way only Asian cinema can do it, but be warned the humour is very Chinese and it may be too different in style to a conventional USA comedy film for example.
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