Movies: Dog Bite Dog

Another one of the movies my Dad brought home from China is "Dog Bite Dog," an awful concoction from Pou-Soi Cheang. Think Jet Li's "Unleashed" mixed with John Woo's "The Killer," stick in Edison Chen, the ever-popular HK teen idol, and throw in some shockingly stupid plot turns, and you've got "Dog Bite Dog."

In DBD, Edison is a feral assassin raised from childhood to be a brutal, emotionless killer. Sam Lee plays a hard-nosed police detective searching for the killer. It all goes downhill from there, with numerous plotholes and incongruous moments. My favorite? A main character gets infected with tetanus and seems doomed to die - but recovers and even gets to be nine months pregnant with seemingly no medical treatment.

While some of the action is competent, it all ends up becoming very silly and almost insulting to the viewer's intelligence.

4/10