Thought not as high on the "sleaze-scale" as notorious CATIII "classics" THE UNTOLD STORY, RED TO KILL, or THE EBOLA SYNDROME - ESCAPE FROM BROTHEL sure tries hard to wallow in it's rating, and does a damn good job...
Two parallel story lines collide when a guy living on the Chinese mainland is called over to Hong Kong to pull a job with a few buddies to rob a jewelry store for the store-owner's boss to get the insurance money. His girlfriend lives in HK, but turns out she doesn't work at the factory that she claims to, and is actually a prostitute. The jewelry store job goes wrong when one of the robbers shoots an interfering tourist - and are then double-crossed by the jewelry store owner. Our hapless mainlander is the only one to survive the set-up, and goes looking to his girlfriend for help. He finds her, and realizes that her career-path is not quite what she had led him to believe. Of course he's upset, but he has bigger koi to fry - like getting out of HK alive - so the couple enlist the help of her ex-husband to smuggle the fugitive back to China. This also turns out to be a set-up - and the ending is not happy for the two luckless lovers...
ESCAPE FROM BROTHEL, and most CATIII films in general, are not to most "casual" or "mainstream" film viewers tastes. Tons of sexy full-frontal and soft-core sex, some good violent scenes (including a kung-fu battle with a nekkid chick that is off-the-hook...) and an extremely downbeat ending don't make this one the feel good film of the summer - unless you're like me and live for this sort of trash. Again - it's not the best of the genre - but it's definitely one of the better ones. Essential for CATIII fans...8.5/10
Two parallel story lines collide when a guy living on the Chinese mainland is called over to Hong Kong to pull a job with a few buddies to rob a jewelry store for the store-owner's boss to get the insurance money. His girlfriend lives in HK, but turns out she doesn't work at the factory that she claims to, and is actually a prostitute. The jewelry store job goes wrong when one of the robbers shoots an interfering tourist - and are then double-crossed by the jewelry store owner. Our hapless mainlander is the only one to survive the set-up, and goes looking to his girlfriend for help. He finds her, and realizes that her career-path is not quite what she had led him to believe. Of course he's upset, but he has bigger koi to fry - like getting out of HK alive - so the couple enlist the help of her ex-husband to smuggle the fugitive back to China. This also turns out to be a set-up - and the ending is not happy for the two luckless lovers...
ESCAPE FROM BROTHEL, and most CATIII films in general, are not to most "casual" or "mainstream" film viewers tastes. Tons of sexy full-frontal and soft-core sex, some good violent scenes (including a kung-fu battle with a nekkid chick that is off-the-hook...) and an extremely downbeat ending don't make this one the feel good film of the summer - unless you're like me and live for this sort of trash. Again - it's not the best of the genre - but it's definitely one of the better ones. Essential for CATIII fans...8.5/10