American psychologist John Holden arrives in London to participate in a symposium aiming to expose witchcraft and devil-worship as a fraud, with attention centered on a cult run by a Julian Karswell. Debarking his plane, Holden learns that the symposium leader, Henry Harrington, has suddenly died and he is now in charge. What only the audience knows is that Harrington was clearly killed by a demon, apparently summoned by Karswell to avenge his persecution. Despite both threatening and cajoling behavior by Karswell, Holden determines to proceed, though the only cult member willing to talk about his experiences is in a prison psychiatric ward, catatonic after allegedly killing yet another cult member. However, Harrington's niece, Joanna, believes, based on her uncle's notes, that Karswell may indeed have some satanic powers derived from an ancient tome in an obscure language which he has been able to translate, and attempts to warn the skeptic Holden. Karswell's mother also attempts to warn Holden off. However, the thing which begins to most get to Holden are the occasional, but mounting, sensory and mental disturbances he begins experiencing after an encounter with Karswell, and the discovery that, during this encounter, Karswell secretly slipped a slip of parchment with a curse in runic symbols on it into Holden's belongings, a parchment identical to one Harrington recorded having had passed to him in a similar manner shortly before his death... [N.B. Holden at no point stays at the Karswell estate].
2021年了，我看到一部20年代的TVB。
为咗唔斋企，用技术处理后的非法手段来维护口中所谓人人平等的公义？下一代的确堪忧..
作为律政剧，它把律师们当了空气；作为刑侦剧，它把警察们当了空气；作为主旋律剧，它把观众当了空气。三星给还在坚守香港电影的老戏骨。
理解为啥不上院线走网络了，真的就跟闹着玩似的。毫无悬念毫无紧张感，故事写得小儿科，制作个方面都差很多。
剧情太呆了，二十分钟已经知道凶手是谁，政界和商界头目，面对亲生子女的生死，也不过是动用了一个黑警，三四个混混。。。格局小了，浪费几位演员的演技
相当于TVB律政剧的水准，最后开BUG把罪犯绳之以法，看着很爽，实际上毫无章法。
过于粗糙的剧情，这么长时间、这么些老戏骨，时间都花哪里了？一星给智叔吧。
有钱有办法，没钱基本法。太过理想主义的洗脑片，现实中，廖启智的代表的资本阶层怎么可能因为女儿的去世和权贵阶层决裂的。
2021年的香港电影，比起其他同地区同时期电影，我倒觉得这部电影算是比较好的了。。。
正义、金钱和亲情的博弈，题材很好，可惜冲突部分拍的太弱了，最后，怀念智叔，哎。
垃圾玩意，一星给智叔，弹幕说兰博基尼的那个傻逼你出门小心被车撞死，老子第一个给你烧纸！
港片真是没落了，多加一星给阵容和演技。其实是权力金钱的决斗，不过最后的结局也不错，起码没有冤枉了那个小青年。
挺好得故事，可是非要倒序吗？想下韩国人会拍成什么样子，香港电影真得没落了
设定挺有迫感的案件，但却演绎的没有一丝压力，这种正义来得蛮轻松自在的感觉很不爽啊
可以做到只手遮天
剧中有句台词，大概是：“对有的人来说法律是一门生意，但对有的人来说法律是一种信仰”。毕业快20年，已经说不出法律还是不是我的信仰。
我还以为看了个老片，是之前几个人演的律政剧的电影版，然而剧本人物摄影灯光极其粗制滥造，但又特别想看演员舒服的演技，太奇怪了，硬是靠演员撑起了三星！
3.5⭐
挺遗憾的，这个卡司居然不配一个好剧本，节奏实在太烂了，一些人设和剧情转变得太突然，看得有点疑惑，突然就这样那样了。新生代的女演员是真的各方面都不太行，还没出场只有几分钟没台词的廖碧儿强。多一星给廖启智。
7/10.
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