Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City Review: This Reboot Of The Videogame-Turned-Film Franchise Is So Boring You’ll Root For The Zombies

Mixing You Are The Apple of My Eye’s bittersweet romance with Mon Mon Mon Monsters’ supernatural chills, Taiwanese novelist-turns-filmmaker Giddens Ko’s latest stars Kai Ko as an amnesiac soul stuck in the afterworld. To recover his memories, he works as a matchmaking god. But things get complicated when it involves his girlfriend (Vivian Sung) and his celestial partner (Gingle Wang). Led by a charismatic cast, the movie is playful and poignant but suffers some tonal turbulence when it runs into a subplot dealing with a vengeful spirit (Umin Boya). That, and a funny scene where a guy shags a motorbike. (3.5/5 stars)

Hellbound’s Park Jeong-Min is 34 but somehow boyish-looking enough to pass off as a high-schooler in this melancholic coming-of-age drama set in 1988. He plays a socially awkward math prodigy obsessed with penning petitions to the authorities to get them to build a train station in his remote hometown. Turns out there’s a sad reason behind this fixation. The film is loosely based on a true story but as it progresses, you begin to wonder how much of it really happened and how much of it was cobbled together from Good Will Hunting, October Sky and even The Sixth Sense. (2.5/5 stars) On Singtel TV and StarHub Video-on-Demand

​​​​​​​One doesn’t need to be a fan (psst, I’m not) to feel shortchanged by this by-the-numbers biopic starring model-turned-thesp Louise Wong as Anita Mui, the Cantopop queen who died in 2003 from cancer at age 40. The film treats Mui’s illustrious career — as singer, actress and social activist — in a cursory fashion, offering little insight into each stage (Mui’s friendship with Leslie Cheung belongs in a separate film). Elsewhere, the juxtaposition of footage of the real McCoy serves as a constant reminder of Wong’s shallow portrayal. At best, Anita is a greatest-hits showcase when it should’ve been a box-set roll-out. (2.5/5 stars)​​​​​​​