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Paul Magne Haakonsen "Satan Returns" was actually a better movie and a better experience than I had anticipated it to be, as Hong Kong cinema are not really famous for their supernatural thrillers. Much less a supernatural thriller with Donnie Yen on the cast list.The story is about a satanic zealot named Judas (played by Francis Ng) who is killing women in his search to find Satan's daughter. And hot on his trail are the police with Mo Tin Nam (played by Donnie Yen) and Ka-Ming (played by Chi Wah Wong) leading the investigation. And Judas's next target is Chan Shou-Ching (played by Chingmy Yau).I will say that it was nice to see a story like this from the Hong Kong cinema vault, and they actually pulled it off well enough, despite the story being sort of religious rubbish. But still, it is only entertainment, and in that aspect it worked out well enough. Sadly, though, then the movie wasn't particularly thrilling or fascinating, it was downright predictable.The movie had some really good names to the cast list. And it was nice to see Chingmy Yau stand out from that semi-erotic shadow of "Naked Killer" that she have been casting for a long, long time. It was sort of odd actually to see Donnie Yen in a movie of this type, as it is not normally what he makes. And the movie was really carried by Francis Ng's performance, and he really outclassed Donnie Yen acting-wise by miles.If you are fed up with the typical action movies that comes from Hong Kong and enjoy supernatural thrillers, then "Satan Returns" might be right what you are looking for. Just bear in mind that the movie is predictable and sort of fails be build up much excitement and thrills.And as for the title of the movie, "Satan Returns", what was up with that? Where did he return from? Vacationing? But more importantly, he didn't return to make an appearance in this movie.

BA_Harrison For this supernatural serial killer flick, director Lun Ah not only adopts the grainy, rain-soaked style of David Fincher's Se7en (a big box-office hit the previous year), but also applies every clichéd technique available to him in the Hong Kong film-makers' bag of tricks. However, no amount of blue lighting, swirling smoke, slow-motion action, canted framing, and fluttering fabric can disguise the fact that Satan Returns is a cheaply produced, poorly considered piece of garbage that not even the presence of Hong Kong hottie Chingamy 'Naked Killer' Yau and top martial arts actor Donnie Yen can save from failure.The plot, from the pen of prolific writer/producer Wong Jing, sees a murderer named Judas abducting women born on the 6th June 1969 and removing their hearts to see if they are the daughter of the devil (apparently, having no heart makes little difference to a spawn of Satan). Whilst this silly story does allow for the occasional scene of light gore and unimpressive action, the focus of the film is on dull police procedure infused with lame comedy. Only towards the end of the film, do proceedings get a little livelier with the introduction of a couple of zombie cops and a touch of power tool mayhem, but by then it's definitely a case of 'too little, too late'.A touch more madness throughout, a couple of decent moments of tension, and a lot more gore certainly would've helped matters immeasurably, but as far as I am concerned, the key to success was under the director's nose all along: if he had made better use of Yau's smouldering sexuality (the only time she gets really horny, it is way too literal!), and hadn't allowed poor choreography and bad editing to prevent Yen from successfully displaying his awesome fighting skills, then Satan Returns would have been a whole lot more entertaining.

Bogey Man Ah Lun directed this Wong Jing produced action shocker Devil 666 aka Satan Returns, in 1996. The film stars the incredibly beautiful sweetheart Chingmy Yau, who played the lead part in Clarence Fok's classic erotic action film Naked Killer in 1992. Donnie Yuen plays a tough cop who is with his colleagues (Chingmy included) after a lunatic killer who calls himself Judas and thinks Chingmy is the daughter of the Devil himself. What follows is gun battles, many plot turns, one chainsaw at the end, the usual Hong Kong "humor", gore and different camera styles, but the main interest for the film makers was to make a film which would appeal to the same audience than The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1990) and Se7en (David Fincher, 1995) did; Satan Returns is occasionally almost too obviously ripping these two Hollywood blockbusters off.The film has some genuinely creepy scenes and segments, and the camera styles and drives are again very restless and also imaginable, and there's at least one hyper fast drive through an apartment and its stairs, so I can't say the film isn't visually at least LITTLE interesting. The plot is nonsense and the scenes and characters are too close to those of Lambs' and Se7en's and the characters in this Orient production even mention these two films couple of times! The action is okay, but never "John Woo style" or near that as one writer requested. The gun battles are nothing special here as isn't anything else either. The rainy streets and dark settings could be gorgeous and effective, but since they've been taken straightly from Fincher's film, I cannot appreciate them in this film too much. There's also some bits of gore and fake blood, which looks occasionally very fake. This film is said to be rated CAT 3, but from what I know, that is NOT true and is only some distributor's "clever" effort to get people's attention due to the high rating. The violence isn't too strong, but it is the usual HK standard (i.e. some blood when people are shot and little gore and ripped hearts every now and then..) and what this film lacks unlike the real CAT 3 films, is the nudity and sex, which usually is the reason for high rating so there's no need to be gore and violence for film to get the "third" rating in Hong Kong.Devil 666 aka Satan Returns gets 4/10 just because of the fact that it is more watchable than some/most of these films, and I'm glad there's not too much of the usual stupid humor, but what's left, should have been left out as well. The visuals are occasionally interesting, but since the film is never original or too personal, the 4 rating seems reasonable, but those who have seen many Hong Kong horror and action films should not keep their expectations too high. Still, it could be MUCH worse!

niz Satan Returns ("starring the babe from Naked Killer!" screams the tag-line) is very clearly modelled on Se7en: the dark, jumpy look-and-feel is faithfully reproduced. At one point, a character suggests that the killer has "seen Se7en". But the similarity ends there. Satan Returns is a film that could only ever be produced in Hong Kong: it is a demonic thriller featuring kung-fu, gunfights, sex, zombies, and the kitchen sink. It's all very entertaining (although ludicrous) stuff. At times, it even manages to be scary. See it to believe it.