奇怪的她

　　狱中5个素不相识的人成了好兄弟——五福星。茶壶（洪金宝 饰）、死气喉（吴耀汉 饰）、卷毛积（岑建勋 饰）、凡士林（秦祥林 饰）和鲁奇（冯淬帆 饰）五人皆因小偷小摸或跑龙套成了冤大头，他们决心出狱后重新做人，光明正大挣钱。五人同一天出狱了，出狱后他们合股成立了一间清洁公司 ，专门帮公司或家居进行清洁。　　一天，黑帮在交易制贩假炒的电版时，被当地一个愣警察撞见了。慌乱之下，他们将电版藏进了五福星的清洁车的清洁箱内。毫不知情的五福星就这样又无端卷入了江湖是非中：一方面，警察怀疑他们是黑帮同伙，在四处通缉他们；另一方面，黑帮也在追寻他们，想杀人灭口取回电版。五福星在进退两难的境地如何运用他们的奇谋妙计脱险？

　　一晃十年过去，地球人和虫族的战争如火如荼，愈演愈烈。某日，空军元帅奥玛•阿诺克（斯蒂芬•霍根 Stephen Hogan 饰）来地球人的远方农场罗库山视察，时任上校的强尼•瑞克（加斯帕•范•迪恩 Casper Van Dien 饰）也一同前来。在此期间，阿诺克的心智被虫王操控，他切断了隔离区的电力，使基地完全失去保护。是夜，虫族对隔离区发动总攻，地球军虽顽强抵抗，终因寡不敌众而告败，基地陷落。阿诺克则和一干心腹逃离，飞船迫降在OM-1行星。　　瑞克因失职被军事法庭判处绞刑，行刑之际被政府秘密部门救下。阿诺克知晓联邦舰队基地所在地的秘密，一旦被虫族得知将不堪设想。因此政府高层要求瑞克带上一队人马，前去营救受困的阿诺克……

　　艾美從又濕又冷的浴缸裡驚醒，發現自己似乎被軟禁在一所廢棄的學校。身邊一片漆黑又恐怖，斑駁的牆壁上有一些詭譎的塗鴉。在她遭軟禁期間，只能與腦中想法相依。身為一名醫生，同時也是妻子和悲傷的母親，始終無法認清兒子因為意外已長眠的事實，並認為兒子也被困在學校裡面。在這充滿敵意、超自然煉獄般的學校，深陷於黑暗與絕望的艾美極力想要找到她的兒子。她不斷打破「學校」的規則，隨著艾美遇到住在「學校」的恐怖邪惡生物，令人畏懼的超自然力量與內心恐懼接踵而至，到底她對抗的是這些恐怖的生物，還是自己的心魔呢?

　　Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their habitat falls apart.　　Delving deep into the dusty and long abandonded vaults of b-cinema in search of lost gems always leaves me with a bittersweet taste. On one hand the discovery of unexpected gems where no one would think them possible is a rewarding experience. On the other hand though it makes one wonder how many of these remarkable low-budget oddities, personal love affairs of directors never quite famous and now all but forgotten, have almost forever slipped from memory?　　n any case what we have here is a little post-apocalyptic gem from Poland that is really better than it has any right to. The dystopian near future of O-BI, O-BA finds a group of survivors of the nuclear war that ravaged the Earth inhabiting an underworld concrete bunker and biding their time as they wait for the mysterious Ark, an air ship of some kind that will come and save them. The Ark proves to be an elaborate hoax, carefully designed to give hope to the malnourished and desperate denizens of the bunker, while in the meantime the dome that separates their miserable existence from the nuclear winter outside is slowly caving in.　　What first striked me about the movie is the design of the bunker and the depiction of the survivors. The survivors are gaunt, filthy and terrible-looking penitents, dressed in rags and aimlessly wandering the neon-lit halls of the bunker like automatons. The bunker is a rundown, seedy place, with bright neon lights peering from all sides like the eyes of malignant beasts.　　On one hand it is a slightly 80's depiction of the dystopian future but the movie never stoops down to MAD MAX cheese. Instead it combines biting political satire with the bleak outlook of a world with no future, black comedy with barbs on apathy, religion and power. The survivors, for example, are fed some kind of flour dropping from a tube that hovers in the air - later on we discover the food supervisor uses books and the Bible itself as filler for this meagre meal. There are many such short symbolic touches, perhaps not life-changing or faith-restoring, yet playful, clever and inspired.　　One thing is for sure; O-BI, O-BA is not your run-of-the-mill sci-fi schlock. It overcomes its modest budget with creativity and has genuine artistic aspirations both from a writing and directing perspective. My opinion is that it should have been filmed in black and white instead of colour though. The director uses atmospheric light and shadow to great effect and it would have registered even better in stark black and white. The blue-green neon on the other hand outstays its welcome after a while. Just a minor gripe in an otherwise solid b-movie with its heart set in all the right places.　　Imagine a less bleak THE ROAD (Cormac McCarthy) being injected with the satire and humour of DR.STRANGELOVE and you're getting there. See it if you can find it.