Review by johannes2000-1

I have no idea what this movie was all about. Of course I read the English synopsis on the cover, that was intriguing enough to buy the dvd, but unfortunately there's no menu on my copy, so no choice of language or even subtitles, it was all in (I suppose) Chinese. The images didn't really help me to reconstruct some sort of coherent narrative: I saw a young man, apparently the Adonis from the title, being subjected to a gang-bang or a gang-rape, visiting a brothel or a gay sex- or nightclub, sleeping with various people or having sex with them, playing a role in a Chinese theater, swimming in a luxurious swimming pool, and wandering through a forest. But how all this should be tied together to form a story???

The Adonis-character was during most of the movie naked, and besides him, there was in all these scenes an almost overwhelming amount of naked men. Now I don't have anything against male nudity (not me!), but in a main stream movie (not meant to be porn, I mean) I like it to be at least in some way functional to the story. Since I couldn't discern such a story (I admit, the language barrier didn't help), all that remained was the sex and nudity, displayed in what to me seemed an exaggerated arty style that mainly impressed as pretentious and got pretty tedious after one and a half hour.