Rating: R
Genre:
Action
Release Date: 07/26/2005
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 81 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Adult Situations
Distributor/Studio: First Look Pictures
Patrick Leung directed this bloody Hong Kong
thriller about a nameless hitwoman (
Jacqueline Wu) who, for reasons not entirely clear and never fully developed, has a lower than average body temperature. She is cold-blooded in other ways as well, assassinating her targets with steely detachment and having only two real acquaintances: the Cambodian woman who gives her killing assignments and money, and the street vendor
Long Shek (
Lau Ching-wan), at whose stand she habitually relaxes after successful hits with a bowl of noodles.
Long Shek dubs her
Pretty Ghost, and the two gradually become something like friends.
Pretty Ghost ends up traveling to South Korea to assassinate a local gangland kingpin, a job she decides will be her last. Unfortunately, the dead man's bodyguard,
Yichin (
Han Sang-woo), is out for revenge and comes after
Pretty Ghost, and she is quickly betrayed by her Cambodian boss. Violent as it may be, the film also spends a good deal of time exploring
Pretty Ghost's character, and her slow change from icy killing machine to humanized woman is well handled by
Wu and screenwriter
Szeto Wai-cheuk.
Shirley Wong and
Cheung Sung-kei co-star.
~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
;)
