REVOLVING DOORS OF VENGEANCE

A good friend recommended this Hong Kong TVB series to me. As the title suggests it's called The Revolving Doors of Vengeance or the cantonese name is "Chou Tim Fong Wan". Don't you think whoever thought of the English name for this series is such a genuis? For me, I would have thought of something lame and similar to a direct translation, let's say, "Hotel Wind Cloud"! hahahahaha.... So smart and creative some people are.

I am not disappointed, this series is marvellous. Ok, I'm not talking about The Da Vinci Code storyline standard, but just for some light suspense, romance, business and family war, this is sufficient. There are 30 episodes and I only have 10 days to finish it. Not that it is a difficult task to accomplish, me being a TV addict, but it does add some pressure, y'know?

The story goes something like this:

This hotel owner has 3 sons who are not the ideal type sons, ie gambling lah, money laundering lah, fighting la, ya the terrible types. Also, not fighting with other people outside only, the 2 elder ones are constantly bullying the youngest son, Kai Kit (Ron Ng), and his mom (2nd wife, 1st wife passed away). The hotel owner wished that his 3 sons would one day work together like happy family to run the hotel.

So, he and Martin (Joe Ma Tuk Choong) worked out a plan to make his dreams come true.. The theory is that if an outsider comes in to mess with the family, the sons would reunite to protect the family. Of course, we know that it's not so smooth one, right? Martin would come into the hotel board of directors and act like a baddie to get rid of the 3 sons. The deal is when the 3 sons prove that they are capable of running the hotel, Martin would reveal the grand plan and leave. Who knows, the old man after transfer his shares to Martin, got hit in accident and died! So, cannot prove that he is actually there to help the brothers instead of really being a nasty a**hole. Can you believe that most of this happen in the first episode??? So kan cheong...

Anyway, there is some romance in between the storyline. I especially like this character called Happy Li Hoi Sum (Ella Koon). She's very pretty, I don't recognise her from any other movies. I'm really bad at remembering faces, for all I know, I might have seen 10 of her movies. Anyway, I think she'll become a big star if she's not already one by now. As her name suggests, she's the happy go lucky type. People take advantage of her also don't know one, though she doesn't act like a bimbo...

Of course in these type of dramas, there must be the evil characters. This time it's a father-daughter double act. These two damn evil, trying to take over the hotel and gave the family all sorts of trouble. The father (John Chiang) is ok la, do what a normal evil character does, quite good. The part I can't stand is the daughter (Elaine Yiu). You know the type, act like so innocent like that but extremely evil inside. This is not the problem, the worst part is her voice! In "weak" mode, she speaks so soft and slow, I can't even hear what the hell she's saying. Just so want to slap her till real tears roll... hahaha... In "nasty" mode, she pushes my fave character, Hoi Sum, out onto the road to be run over by a funnily decorated truck (they were in Phillipines for that scene) but luckily it managed to swerve in time. Guess what? The truck rammed straight into the b*tch!!!!! OMG, I know I shouldn't laugh but remember this is only acting and she's been a real bad a**... The worst is yet to come for her, you see. The reason for the attempted murder is because she and Hoi Sum going for the same guy, Kai Kit. When she's lying on the hospital bed, Kai Kit went to go chase after Hoi Sum. He's also quite heartless in that fact but I overlooked it because I want HS to be with him... hahaha... chee sin one..

In the end, bad people either die or paralysed. Good people have loving families and become rich & successful. Great viewing! There you have it, 30 hours of screen time summarised to a few paragraphs.

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