La Shou Hui Chun

The film is in effect a production experiment: conceived 27 days before it was to be booked in theatres, it’s a testament to rapid-fire production methods that To’s company Milkyway Image exults in. An unusual work in the To catalogue, this is a black comedy that functions as needle sharp political satire. In a hopelessly bureaucratic hospital, idealistic young surgeons Cecilia Cheung and Jordan Chan recruit surgeon turned auto mechanic Ekin Cheng to their mission of reform. Political corruption soon yields to natural disaster, as Help morphs to a disaster film parody. Help could be the title of every To film: fantasies of rescue in the face of disaster here finds a savagely comic echo. (S. Kraicer)