Spider Woman
In this psychological thriller, dead men are showing
up around HK like mushrooms after a summer rain. All of them have been
brutally killed during the moment of orgasm; thus the analogy to female
spiders. Michael Wong is a cop who goes undercover at an art gallery owned
by Jade Leung who is suspected of having some connection to the murders.
Suspects are thrown at the viewer in random fashion.
Is it Jade or her mysterious twin sister? Or her psychiatrist or the slowly
going insane coroner or the gay friend. Well you don’t have to be Sherlock
Holmes to figure this one out. Watson could have managed this one without
any help. Unfortunately, Wong is not up to those standards as it takes
a while for him to put it all together.
Not exactly a top notch grab your seat thriller,
but Jade looks fabulous and sexy and her acting has its moments. The last
fifteen minutes gets a bit bloody as the killer decides to clean house.
My rating for this film: 5.5
