Raped by an Angel

One of Hong Kong's sleazier franchises, somewhat surprisingly started off by Andrew Lau and (less surprisingly) Jing Wong. The concept is actually quite decent, but everything else is just poorly executed. It's good that Lau detached himself from Wong later on as the two have very different strengths, and Lau really is wasted in this type of material.

A crafty lawyer is trying to outsmart the law. He comes up with elaborate plans to create situations where it is actually legal for him to rape women. He kills his victims too and makes it look like suicides. When the best friend of one of his victims finds out she didn't kill herself, she vows to track down the culprit and clear her best friend's name.

I was pretty surprised to see Simon Yam here, then again he did take on quite some questionable roles at the start of his career. The presentation of the film is drab, the performances are poor and even though the setup is somewhat interesting, the direction is just messy and unfocused. Not Lau's proudest moment, luckily he would redeem himself in the years to come.