When newly wedded young couple Jack and Ching move into a building complex apartment everything is perfect for them , that is until the same evening Jack gets run down by a car which places him in a coma. Despite an unfavourable medical diagnosis Jack’s near death experience suddenly turns into a miraculous recovery , but the price of life has a future expense that someone has to pay.

Eason Chan , who played the role of Peter in the original Hong Kong Box Office hit ,‘ Visible Secret ’, returns for this name only sequel , this time playing the part of Jack.

Upon returning home to the flat it is not long before Jack starts to experience strange events and as the night closes in creepy noises and a voice are heard. Things develop swiftly and when Jack has a violent vision of a woman lying face down and contorted in a pool of blood in an alley he senses something is terribly wrong with the flat.

Jack discusses his unease with Ching , telling her that he thinks someone actually died in the apartment , but Ching herself is starting to act in a withdrawn manner. When he catches Ching’s reflection in a window pane , reflecting back the image of someone else and his earlier vision of death incarnates itself through her , an eerie set of events soon begins to unravel.

The arrival in Hong Kong of a friend and ex-girlfriend , named September , gives Jack someone to confide in and together the two start to investigate. The two discover that Ching has seemingly not told Jack the truth about her past as the mother she had told him was dead is residing as a patient in a mental institution.

Their detective work around the building discovers a somewhat misplaced sub story which reveals a miscreant relay of cameras around the block akin to the Hollywood movie , ‘ Sliver ’. The importance of the revelation is the startling capture on film , the appearance of Ching within the couples flat before they were married or had moved into together !.

With the surprising events unraveling the detective work of Jack and September leads them to uncover that Ching ended a relationship with a previous boyfriend to marry Jack , it turns out he tragically committed suicide at the same time as Jack was involved in the hit and run accident !.

All the pieces start to come together but in true , ‘ The Sixth Sense ’, fashion that which the audience has been sharing with Eason Chan’s lead character is not necessarily all quite what it appears. The viewer is best rewarded by concentrating throughout the films entire duration to fully enjoy the whole as if sitting down with a good book. The movie delivers a ghostly air of uncertainty in telling a tale of haunting drama , revolving around a love story that reaches beyond this world. The experience of first love , lost love and true love entwine with a creepy atmosphere that permeates through the visual hues and well honed clarity of the Dolby Digital DTS sound.

The Direction on this occasion is Abe Kwong who does a competent job but the overall winning combination of sustained hair raising visual and audible chills , as delivered by Ann Hui in the original but taking on Production duties here , was always going to be a hard act to follow.

The conclusive analysis is that although a sequel in name to cash in on the success of the first film both movies do actually stand alone and do not need to be seen back to back , therefore there is no Visible Secret in watching this one too.

Film Reviewed : Visible Secret II