Trust Me U Die (1999)

Simon Yam is Dr Greg Fong. While working for the University of Birmingham (I can't believe I actually checked that link), Fong invents a super steroid ñ SS160 is the kind of drug that cures all illnesses, impotence and idiocy, and generally makes someone superhuman. But after his greedy British co-worker dies, Greg comes back to Hong Kong with his new wonder drug. Old schoolmate and GP Dr Mike Chow (Mark Cheng) takes Fong and his girlfriend Vivian on as his assistants. Mike, being the bad doctor that he is (he sells kidneys), then drugs and rapes Vivian and she falls for him in return. Fong takes the affair as good reason to do a bit of human medical tests, and soon Mike (by now wearing that unhealthy-looking white lip gloss) becomes fish food. We're now about an hour into the film. Greg takes over the clinic and gives his miracle drug to his patients, and continues his testing on cop Sam Lee. And, wouldn't you know it, things all go horribly wrong.

Now I can't say I've finished watching the original Dr Lamb , so I won't comment on the film this is a name-only sequel to. On it's own, Trust Me U Die is a slapdash stinker heading nowhere. A bit of zombie humour only starts to appear near the end after an arduous slog through melodrama, an annoying rape scene and it's aftermath - all badly filmed. The actors aren't really that bad in this film - it's the horrific script and roles that are purely awful. And it doesn't help that the dialogue seems to be subtitled by a prude ñ the segment explaining how to apply an external-use-only impotence cure goes completely unsubbed. A super steroid movie with Simon Yam and Sam Lee should be a dead-ringer for some fun, especially if patients mutate and all, but in Trust Me U Die nothing happens. By the end, all there is is the naughty doctor pontificating on why he created the drug and why the world needs it. Boring! The only interesting things were the amount of English-language dialogue and the loud US college rock soundtrack - something I've never heard in an HK film.

Trivia Note: Joey Tan - Malaysian Beauty Pageant Winner - was reportedly stripped of the Miss Malaysia Chinatown crown after her nude pictorials in two HK magazines in January and her rape scene in this film. Source: SCMP

Trust Me U Die painted billboard up at the Imperial Theatre.

Credits:

Directed by Billy Chung
Starring Simon Yam, Mark Cheng, Joey Tan and Sam Lee