The Incredible Truth
Leong Tak Sam
The incredible truth about this movie is that it is spectacularly bad. Hong Kong’s Christy Chung should have stuck to slimming advertisements instead.
She plays Wei Ling, a stylist who travels to Japan to search for her friend, Jia Jia (Liu Yan), who has gone missing. Showing a complete lack of self-preservation skills, the stylist stays at a strange resort peopled by creepy characters. Chief among them is innkeeper’s daughter Michiko Shimizu (Megumi Kagurazaka), who goes from being intimidating to seductive to flat-out crazy.
The musical cues are loud and jarring and the acting is hammy and laughable. Chung tries her earnest best but fails in the face of a ludicrously lazy script.
For example, Wei conveniently finds a diary in the forest which spells out everything that happened.
It is so terrible that The Incredible Truth is good for a few laughs.
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