Reviewed by: AkiraRus Date: 07/16/2004 Summary: Just Plain Terrible! Terrible, absolutely hopeless movie with bad acting (Sam Lee is totally lost, the only good thing here is Carel Wong), disastrous directing and lousy plot with logic holes like in a swiss cheese. Worst of all are lame dialogs filled with cliches and moral lectures so obvious that it makes me wanna groan in pain. Total trash. 2/10

Reviewed by: j.crawford Date: 06/27/2004 Summary: Entertaining post - Handover exploitation When I was at the vcd shop in Chinatown looking at the new releases, this one caught my eye right away. The cover art features close-ups of Sam Lee [looking pensive] and Sophie Ngan [looking sultry]. These 2 popular actors happen to be among my personal favorites so I picked it up. Executive produced and written by Lee Siu Kei, Fing's Raver is a prime example of how exploitation films get made in post-Handover HKSAR. The film opens to a black screen with a narrator explaining the evils of drug taking among todays youth in the 'rave party' scene. Once the morality statement is finished, the film opens into a disco night club with scenes of dope smoking, pill popping, coke snorting and, of course, drinking bottled water. What is the 'Fing's' of the title? Ectascy pills or Extascy or X or whatever they call them where you live. In the reality of the movie, the pills cause death or brain damage to a large number of kids. After a cranial autopsy scene reveals the damage being done, the police are dispatched to clean up the clubs where the 'ravers' go. Sam Lee and Samuel Leung play brothers, once again, who work in the night club where the cops think the drugs are being sold. They are both so good in this film, with Lee taking a 'serious' turn for a change. Leung plays the younger, goofy hustler who ends up dead as a result of some triad double-crossing. Maria Cordero is so funny as their gambling mom who gets in trouble with loansharks. A great scene in the film has Cordero, Ha Ping and a couple of other 'senior' actress getting all 'foxed up', going to the club and taking some Fing's pills. What about Sophie, you say? She's hardly in the film. Cast as the nightclub owner's sister, her big scene in the film has her drugged [with 'magic water' which makes women horny] and doing a striptease/lap dance for one of the bad guys. What a waste. I guess. Reviewer Score: 6

Reviewed by: bastardswordsman Date: 02/15/2002 This piece of anti-drug propaganda was written by narcotic authority Lee Siu kei. The irresponsible subject matter does little to educate would-be pill poppers, it just harks to the days of just say-no-scare tactics. However, the result is so laughable, one can forgive teenagers for wanting to go out and get off their faces in nightclubs, rather than visit the cinema.

Reviewed by: xiaoka Date: 11/25/2001 Summary: not BAAADD.... but nothing to write home about. While the subject matter definitely could use some attention, this movie looks like it was made in two weeks with a mild notion of what it was going to be about, and a lot of random stuff thrown in. There's very little character development for most of the people, and the story is not too well plotted out either. Some pretty actresses, but not much else to make this worth watching. Reviewer Score: 2