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Hey now, this movie is quite interesting and exciting up to a point, but then it loses steam or focus or...something. At any rate there are mysterious deaths taking place in Taiwan....one CEO freezes to death in his office, a woman is burned in her apartment which shows no sign of fire, etc. In comes FBI Agent Richter (David Morse) from Quantico, to help with the investigation. He is not exactly very welcome in the closed community and because of the language barrier he's made fun of while he's right there, but none of that bothers him. At any rate he finds an uneasy partnership with a cop that has some personal and family problems. He also finds that the cause of whatever is happening to the victims is somehow related to little pellets of some strange substance that affects the brain. Add to that some supernatural or Taoist beliefs and it leaves the viewer (at least, this one) somewhat confused as to what really IS happening. This is well filmed and the acting is great, but towards the end it seemed to all lose focus and and went all over the map. It's never clear as to what is causing all the strange murders; if it's some bio-terror thing or if it's merely a supernatural thing. Don't get me wrong, it is worth watching, but you may be somewhat disappointed with how it turns out, because it doesn't really make a lot of sense. Interesting to a point, though.
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