Ebola Syndrome

With what the movie "Yi boh lai beng duk" brought to the table, he played his part absolutely brilliantly. There's humor that lightens everything up a bit, but there are also properly disgusting and harsh scenes that balance it out. When it comes to gore, the autopsy scene excels in this direction and shows that when a capable artist takes on gore, it truly looks repulsive. Here, one could point out a certain stiffness of the body, but that can be forgiven due to illness. This movie surprised me greatly, more in the positive sense of the word. (09/23/2014)

Ebola Syndrome radiates tons of anger, hatred, depravity, extreme violence and sexual perversion. Unfortunately, it cannot be dismissed as cheap, provocative trash, because it is sophisticatedly written, artfully directed, dynamically edited, brilliantly acted, unpredictable and never boring for even a second. The now-acclaimed actor Anthony Wong credibly embodies the brutal killer and sexual deviant. It’s a problem for him to douse a little girl in gasoline and set her ablaze after killing her parents in front of her (the opening scene, which sets up the climax for the rest of the plot). The film depicts him as a “natural born killer” and in his actions he goes beyond the limits of the most depraved imagination. The worst part, however, is that it does not particularly condemn him. This impartiality of the film, which in places slips into a kind of black humour for a very narrow audience, is a breeding ground for an intense morbid feeling that only a few films can boast. I would avoid the screenwriter like the plague... The motif involving the Ebola virus, of which our “hero” becomes a carrier, doesn’t come into play until the second half and serves only to intensify and deepen the gloom and nastiness of the depressing atmosphere. I strictly do not recommend Ebola Syndrome for more sensitive and inexperienced viewers. (09/05/2005)