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Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Holiday Flix: Raped by an Angel 3- Sexual Fantasy of the Chief-Executive

Insert Trump Joke Here.  
Is that out of the way?  Great.  

Today's Film is Raped by an Angel 3: Sexual Fantasy of the Chief-Executive, another in the Series from China.  I *nearly* did this one last year, but was convinced to cover The Love Witch instead.  I don't regret that decision, especially after watching this one.  I last covered this Series in...holy crap, has it been over 7 years?!?  That puts things in perspective.  

On this track, I'll be done with the Series- there are FIVE Films FYI- by the time I'm retired!  

In any event, a recap for those that didn't see the previous two Films is in order.  

In the first, a crazy guy that is also rich targets two women for, well, guess.  It's climax- sorry- involves the man getting caught and getting AIDS- ha?  
In the Sequel, a freaky Dentist is out for, again, guess.  

So now that this explanation is over, what is this one about?  To be fair, it actually inverts the Story a bit this time.  A series of rapes are happening and all blame points to one man.  
Is he the villain?  
Is he crazy?  
Is this all a Hitchcock-ian Story with many twists and turns?  To find out, read on...
Just like with the main Plot, there is a slight inversion here.

Instead of it looking like rape, but being a couple instead...it is a couple and then an actual rape happens.  Creativity?
There have apparently been many rapes in this Building, but the Police are on the case!
The secondary focus of this Story is on our Female Lead (insert Social Commentary Here), who's Brother is a Cop on the case and who works in the Building.  

Oh and everyone keeps saying this...
The titular Executive (actually a Chief-Executive-to-be according to the iffy Subtitles) has weird illusions of women being naked in public.  

Okay, now I need to share this clip then.
Another rape occurs in the Office a bit later.  It is our Female Lead!

So was the point of showing her with a Taser earlier just to misdirect the Audience? 

 I'm not sure if it is a positive thing or if you just forgot.
Evidence points to the Chief-Executive (to-be).  

The fact that the lead Cop is the Brother doesn't help things.
A Psychiatrist from the man's past comes into the picture during all of this.  

Can she help him remember?
The Police are hard on the case, with the Partner working with the Chief-Executive (to-be) and figuring out that some weird, unexplainable stuff is happening around him.

He's also keen on over-sharing.  
Was TMI a thing in 1998?
It all turns out to be a plot by the Psychiatrist, who was dumped by the Executive before his rise.  

She went crazy and put in place a 2,481 part plan that involved hypnosis via fake dial-up sound, a partner, planted evidence, planted memories and mind-controlled murder.

That's...hard to believe, but every bad guy is dead so f--k it.  
The End.
Love is in the air!  Aside from the obvious, perverted stuff here, this is a story of love.  

The main one is about how it can drive you crazy and vengeful- granted.  Aside from that, we do see the love between Brother and Sister, the love between a young Couple and one man's love of 'porno video tapes.' 
 Again- it isn't a perfect, Holiday Film.  

The Film is a bit all over the place story-wise, featuring weird illusions, flashbacks, long stretches of exposition and cutting back to the same Rape Scene about 3x.  The actual Acting is generally-good and I was able to enjoy it without Dubbing.  The Subtitles are very spotty, as nobody seemed to translate the lines for grammatical sense or proper order.  

I'm not saying that I could do a better job, but many people could.  To be fair to those who did said Dubbing, this is a Sequel to a Series that is fairly obscure outside of China and who's IMDB Page is woefully incomplete.  By the time you read this, I may have actually done something about that.  Ain't  I a Saint?  

Is this Film good?  It's alright, but definitely not for most people.  It is more about intrigue and suspense than actual rape, so bear that in mind.  It is also bloodier than you might think, so also note that.  

If nothing else, it makes me feel for the poor guy who has to do Blocking for the Film.  I mean, look at how they had to stage this shot...
Next time, a return to trashy '90s Cinema.  That's right- more Andy Sidaris!  Stay tuned...

Saturday, May 8, 2010

WTF China?!?: Raped By An Angel 2- The Uniform Fan

After the turmoil of trying to get my reviews out at the end of last month, I wasn't sure how long I would have to wait to be able to review this.  As it turns out, not long.  What's to say about the second film that hasn't been said about the first?  Well, for starters, the movie is not really a sequel.  None of the characters are carried over from the first film.  In defense of the film, it does take a lot of the same ideas- a rapist man in power, a strong woman- and play with them a bit.  Wow, when you talk about films like this, the term 'plays with them' takes on a new meaning, doesn't it?  Before you get all icky, let's just get to the movie...where you will feel even worse.  This is...
The film begins by introducing us to our villain, a man who really likes people in uniform.  More specifically, he likes to rape women in uniforms.  There's 'liking' and then there's 'liking!'  After getting a striptease from, screwing and then leaving his Dental Assistant girlfriend (using the word loosely), he goes out for a walk.  He stumbles across a lady Meter Maid and goes after her.  After knocking her out by lightly tapping her head against a handrail, he rapes her and then kills her.  Incidentally, the shitty subtitle work from Part 1 is back, making this 'the killer explains his motivations' scene even more awkward!  The next day, a crime boss is released from prison and meets up with his lackey.  When they go to his car, they discover the body of the woman from last night and try to hide.  Do you like 'trying to hide a dead body' humor?  You're in luck...you freak.  The pair go have lunch at a cafe, but this is where a big drug deal is about to go down.  The police are there and, for some reason, our villain is there as well.  Yes, take a left at Coincidence Avenue and a right at Bullshit Street!  The key things: the police woman (our heroine) meets the criminal and our villain gets a gun.

What follows is a major obsession with a romantic angle over, you know, the plot.  Our crime boss tries to woo the uninterested woman.  It doesn't work too well.  Speaking of pointless, they set-up that the criminal is poor and is spending all of his money in this attempt.  During all of this, we are also introduced to our heroine's horny sister who ends up meeting our villain.  She goes to see him at his dentist's office and he drugs her.  Before he can do anything, his girlfriend comes in and offers herself to him instead, leading to them screwing in front of the drugged and half-naked girl. Eww.  Later on, he helps her out by scaring off some thugs with the gun he stole from the fight and invites her friends over to his apartment.  They talk about going camping and, in a not-at-all suspicious move, he offers to let them stay at his other apartment near the place.  In a fairly blatant Checkov's Gun, the sister shows the cop lady how you can untie a complex not in one tug.  Too subtle, movie!  Out in the woods, the kids are out in the rain and decide to run into the apartment to dry off.  They proceed to start drinking and dancing, while our villain watches from outside.  The sister goes upstairs, but we learn that the man drugged all of the food and drink.  The man goes upstairs and has his way with her.  He sets up a nearby boy as a patsy, but she wakes up.  Because of that, he kills her and sets it up anyways.

In a move similar- but different- to Part 1, they set-up a trial for the framed young man.  To make things different, the boy is killed before any of this can come to fruition.  Our heroine suspects that the dentist is to blame for both murders & the criminal tries to help.  Instead of doing this, he is set-up for sexual assault by the dentist and his nurse.  The dentist's ego comes into play as he tries to woo our heroine now and complete the family set.  He stalks her in the shower, but she notices his wet shoes and figures out what he did.  The criminal and his lackey set-up the man, but get captured by him and tortured Marathon Man-style.  Their only chance of escape involves the nurse untying their ropes with her teeth.  Back to our heroine, she plays into his uniform fetish (don't ask me how she knows about it) by wearing her 'girl-guide' (Brownies) outfit to dinner.  He tries to drug her and attack the grandmother, but the women were on to him.  He gets an advantage by holding his gun on the grandmother and makes the heroine tie herself to a door.  He beats up the old lady...'s stunt double.  He starts to have his way with the woman before she remembers the thing from earlier about untying the knot.  She knees him in the groin, sprays cleaner in his eyes and the grandma finishes him off by slashing his groin.  Just not in time, the police and the criminal show up.  Rather than ending on a serious note, they end on 'a laugh' as the criminal oggles the girl's exposed chest and gets slapped.  Ha ha?
Like the last film, this is not really a good movie.  It has a decent premise- a crazy killer among us meets justice from a common person- but ruins it.  How?  It focuses most of its time on a stupid, romantic angle.  Is this important?  No.  You want to pay more attention to the crazy man hiding amongst decent members of society?  No, this love story that is never resolved is much more important!  The acting is pretty bad across the board, especially when you consider that most of the cast was clearly told 'act like those guys in the first movie.'  I appreciate the semblance of continuity, although this is a bit silly.  If you want to make a sequel, make a sequel.  If you want to make something completely unrelated, but with a similar plot concept: make that.  Don't do that and have the characters act like Funhouse mirror versions of the last film's characters!  If you liked the first movie, you'll probably like this one...you freak.
Next up, Blockbuster Trash returns with a tale of teenagers, revenge and the worst third act twist ever!  As a bonus, it's an unofficial sequel to a successful series.  Stay tuned...

Monday, April 26, 2010

WTF China?!?: Raped by An Angel

Okay, I won't lie: I only wanted to see this because of the title.  Honestly, can you blame me?  This exploitation film came out in 1993 in China and actually spawned four sequels.  We only had four Exorcist films, but we have five Raped By An Angel films!  What should you expect from the first film of a series that brought us such films as Raped By An Angel 3: Sexual Fantasy of the Chief Executive and Raped By An Angel 4: The Raper's Union?  Incidentally, do I even need to bother to summarize the plot for you?  It would either meet your fears/expectations or just ruin the whole thing for you.  If you're still with me, check out my consent-free review of...
The film begins with a man breaking into a woman's house and raping her.  Wow, even I Spit On Your Grave set things up first!  As it turns out, this is actually a game he plays with his girlfriend, although it's much more for him than for her.  We are introduced to our heroines via a TV commercial they appear in.  They run around in the jungle, fire guns and dodge explosions.  Is this an ad for the military or the NRA?  No, it's actually an odd for...milk.  What's in your water, guys?  Our rape-happy villain makes them his focus and hits on them at a party.  It doesn't end well, unless you consider having a glass of scotch dumped into your lap to be foreplay.  The next night, he sets up his girlfriend to be raped by his friend, an act that he films.  So far, he's only a rapist-by-proxy, not that I consider that to be okay either.  We get an odd bit of dialogue as our heroines discuss their long-lost friend who has showed up with AIDS.  I bet you're wondering where that is going, if anywhere.  I'll never tell...until it comes up later.  The man sets up a series of events that will come into play later.  While it's clever, it also flies in the face of the entire film's plot.  That's a first, huh?
Things only escalate as our heroine tracks down a person for an interview related to her law class.  That man: a Triad boss.  Way to aim low, honey.  After helping him escape a murder coup against him (a kung-fu fight- what?!?), the man agrees to do an interview with her.  On top of that, he begins to woo her and eventually ends up having sex with her on a houseboat.  Meanwhile, there is some sort of main plot here, right?  This finally comes to head around the forty-five minute mark.  Ah, I see someone read Screenplay 101.  You see, the man has moved into the building with our heroines and breaks in one night to have some fun with our heroine's friend.  She puts up a fight, but proves to be weaker than his American Psycho impression.  By the way, you actually see more of him in this scene than you do of her- odd.  He sets up more plot points that fly in the face of logic during this as well.  The next day, her friend comes home and finds out the news.  She pushes her friend to press charges.  I choose you, courtroom scene!
The trial is, well interesting. The whole thing basically boils down to people either believing odd things about her (they were a couple, says the landlord) or buying into the weird things he set up earlier.  For example, he deposited a bunch of money into her account and made her publicly withdraw it with the threat of a tape.  The problem with all of this?  He acts completely-surprised when she 'dares' press charges.  He does all of this just in case they do something that has never been done before?  WHAT?!?  Anyhow, he gets off after blackmailing his ex-girlfriend with the tape of her being raped earlier.  Meanwhile, our heroine's new beau does what he can to get at that man.  That proves to not be enough as the girl who pressed charges is kidnapped, killed and dismembered.  Two months later, the man moves back in and finds our heroine there.  She sets up a trap for him by allowing him to watch her saunter around.  In a *lovely* scene, we get to watch the man manipulate himself while hanging upside down.  Ew.  The climax (sorry, I didn't mean to do that) comes when the evil lawyer uses the boss' ex-girlfriend to keep him away while he breaks in...dressed as a clown.  A big action scene ensues involving fighting, slashing, a bathtub full of acid and a crossbow.  Eventually, he catches and rapes the girl...only to find that she switched with the AIDS-infected friend.  They got you...in a roundabout way.  The End.
This film is really not that good.  It accomplishes what it was going for, I suppose, but is a highly-flawed film.  The movie takes nearly an hour to get to its point and main plot.  Before we get that, we get a whole ton of random stuff and a romantic side-plot  that the movie deemed more important than the main one.  Would you kindly not waste my time, movie?  I also have to mention this: the subtitle work is utter shit.  Now the producers of the film are not to blame for this, but still.  Whoever failed to spell check this shit and decided to do all of the translation as literal needs to be shot in the scrotum!  As a bonus, the script is full of vague and confusing expressions that I'm supposed to know.  The thing can't go three minutes without calling a horny guy a 'wolf' (Tex Avery would be proud) or a stalker a 'creeper!'  I can figure this out with enough thought, but it's distracting as hell.  Oh right, the movie.  It's not good.  It has random humor, a listless plot and some very out-of-place fight scenes.  That said, stay tuned next month for the sequel!
Next up, I celebrate the 1-Year Anniversary of my look at the sons of famous movie villains.  This time, their daughters take their turn.  First up, the daughter of a scientist continues the family work...sort of. Stay tuned...