Another point in the plus category for this movie is that it has literally zero information on IMDb. The director and one actor is listed, and that is the extent of information they have about this, apparently. I'm half inclined to go on there and list the "plot" but I like the blank, anonymous look of the page too much to alter it.
So, since you can't get it from IMDb, here it is in my words: Maria is a crocodile. Or, I should say, Maria can turn into a crocodile. She is in a small village, casually killing dozens of people, when her lover Jack finds her and tells her she must stop. How will they live together in the next life if she dirties her karma with dozens of killings? Maria is one of several crocodile/human hybrids sent by witch master Monica. Monica also has the traditional hopping vampire at her disposal, and it's up to Jack to stop her.
This movie was completely incomprehensible. I don't mean that as an insult, nor do I mean it as an over-exaggeration. Seriously, this movie made no fucking sense. First of all, it's a Chinese movie with English dubbing and Greek subtitles. The only known DVD version permanently has Greek subtitles, just in case, you know, you're Greek. So it's another situation where, who knows if the original Chinese made sense (or the Greek subtitles, for that matter), but the English certainly doesn't. It's pretty near impossible to follow the story lines, there are tons of names being thrown out, and honestly I didn't know who half the characters were.
Going into this, it's like watching the aftermath of a tornado. Especially if it was a town you'd never been to that got hit by a tornado. You wouldn't know what it was supposed to look like originally. An entire water tower or something could've been ripped out of the place, and you wouldn't know cause you had never seen the water tower there. Half of buildings would be missing, but you'd only be able to guess what it originally had looked like. It's like looking at a half finished painting. And especially, an abstract painting. Something that was by definition random and at the discretion of the artist.
Let me see here. I dunno. I want to try and explain more about how exactly little sense this movie makes, but just thinking about it gives me a headache. It's not terrible, it's just that it gets tedious watching something, even at only 85 minutes long, when you have no clue what's happening, why, and where it's all going. There's like, a fight scene or two, there's crocodile puppets flying through the air, there's bad acting and dialogue, stuff happens, and then randomly the words The End, and you're wondering, "Wait it's over?! What the fuck happened in that movie?!"
The ending was abrupt, and I was glad that I wasn't the only one in the theater to think this. It feels like this movie could've kept going forever, not that I was enjoying it, but, just because there was never a semblance of plot and they just randomly decided to end it at one point. So in the spirit of that,
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