HO - Set in Tokyo, this is a Sci-Fi story about extraterrestrial shape-changers who take on human form in order to kill people. Neat special effects.

IS - Based loosely on Youjuu Toshi (Supernatural Beast City), a novel by Kikuchi Hideyuki.

LEH - This could have been SO great if only the script had been better; now it's some amazing set-pieces and little else. Worth seeing for the FX alone, though.

SS -  (***) The plot from the Japanese cartoon version may be better, but the HK movie version has some great (and some
not so great) hallucinogenic effects to recommend it. It's 1997, and shape-shifting raptors have invaded earth. Some (including
Tatsuya Nakadai and his lover, gorgeous Michelle Reis) have decided to co-opt the human economy and live in peace, but
others (led by Roy Cheung) want to poison the populace with an amphetamine-like drug that causes living beings to slowly
vaporize. On their trail -- Leon Lai, half-human Jackie Cheung, and an elite corp of telekinetic warriors who can at least
temporarily keep the bad raptors at bay. The raptors themselves are truly menacing movie monsters, and their transformations
well-realized with fairly modest effects; the liquid raptors are like living glue, and there's even an evil shape-shifter who's part
machine and who can be played like a pinball machine! Unfortunately, a love story gets in the way of the thrills, and ditto for
the awful dialogue; but there's still easily enough good stuff to keep the easily pleased (like me) entertained for a few hours.

JSC -  8/10 One of the few HK films you may find at Blockbuster, this comic book sci-fi is an entertaining allegory of sorts in
which humanity has been split into two groups, the human intellectuals and the monstrous emotionals. While the emotionals are
recognized in the film as shape shifting, drug dealing grotesques from another dimension (the drug they deal is called
happiness), both sides have ample faults. The film features Lai as a human cop who falls for a monster, Cheung is somewhat
miscast as his partner, half human, half monster. All in all, good ambitious fun.