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6.1/10   107 votes
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Gordon Chan (writer)
Hing-Ka Chan (writer)
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Cast

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Philip Kwok ... Wang Chieh-Mei
Siu-Ming Lau ... Errol
Waise Lee ... Wei Si Li (Wisely)
Christine Ng ... Pai So
Gloria Yip ... Alien Girl
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Also Known As:
Lo mau (Hong Kong: Cantonese title)
The Cat (Hong Kong: English title)
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Runtime:
84 min
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Follows Wai Si-Lei chuen kei (1987) more

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6 out of 8 people found the following review useful.
Absurd but fun, 22 May 2002
6/10
Author: Roger Keightley (rkeightley@sympatico.ca) from Toronto, Canada

From the team that brought us the outrageous prison drama STORY OF RICKY comes an equally bizarre science-fiction movie. It isn't ashamed to "borrow" ideas from sources as diverse as CALTIKI, THE TERMINATOR, THE BLOB and THE QUATERMASS EXPERIMENT. The result is certainly lively and - if you're in the right frame of mind - quite entertaining.

The story concerns three visitors from another solar system whose mission on earth is to destroy "the star-killer", an amorphous Lovecraftian creature that absorbs and can re-animate its human victims. The trio is seeking two relics displayed in terrestrial museums. When joined together, the relics create an amplification device for a ray beamed from their home planet. Bathed in the amplified ray, one of the visitors - a black cat called The General - will be powerful enough to vanquish the monster.

The film's main attractions are its comely female cast members and some over-the-top action sequences. These include a junk yard battle between The General and a huge black mastiff that must be seen to be believed. There are also some quite graphic horror scenes, but the poor quality of the make-up effects mutes their impact.

Although it never attains the quality of the films it emulates, THE CAT is sufficiently fast-paced to hold our attention even while we laugh at its absurdities.

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