肥肥胖胖的阿祥（郑则仕 饰）是一家瓦斯店的老板，他为人和善，乐观宽厚，拥有美丽的娇妻和可爱的女儿，生活美满幸福。某天他中途回家，却发现老婆和人通奸。阿祥虽然愤怒非常，却因性格关系自吞苦果。阿祥泡吧借酒浇愁，跟舞女Fanny（关咏荷 饰）大吐苦水，结果稀里糊涂地通过她聘请越南帮的杀手杀掉那对奸夫淫妇。次日阿祥酒醒回家，却早已忘记雇用杀手之事，于是眼睁睁地看着老婆和奸夫被人砍死。阿祥的噩梦尚未就此结束，他还面临着越南帮所要的高额酬金。情急之下，阿祥出逃广州，并在此遇到心狠手辣的乌鼠（任达华 饰）。乌鼠答应带领手下帮阿祥解决越南帮的问题，此举却让阿祥的生活彻底堕向万劫不复……

故事的主人公是一个外表平平的男子，他穿着黑色西装，带着黑框眼镜，虽然是职场人士模样，但周身散发着颓废疲劳的消极气息。他讨厌坐电梯，电梯门打开后对面墙的话让他心烦不已；他也讨厌和一群人共享电梯，零距离的感觉让他焦躁不安。唯一让男人感到些许开心的，是不久前刚刚乘坐电梯的女孩子留下的香气。特殊的香气让男人心驰神往，不觉多了一份渴望与期待。某天，男人终于见到那个香气的主人，女孩的美丽容颜和独特气质似乎满足了他此前的想象，他久久凝望女孩，猜测关于女孩的一切，并且鼓起勇气与女孩聊天。老旧的电梯内，复古气息和发霉的味道并存，这会是一个浪漫故事吗？

约翰．保曼在三十年前已拍出具现代感觉的动作片，堪称时代先躯。六十年代动作巨星李．马文饰演一名黑道悍将，他被不忠的妻子和她的歹徒男友合谋枪杀，但大难不死，两年后出狱，倾全力向陷害他的人报仇。全片节奏虽不象九十年代动作片那么紧凑有力，但镜头绝不拖泥带水，某些片段还拍出真正的暴力感觉。美国西岸的景色，包括著名的阿卡翠监狱，都增加了本片在视觉上的吸引力。安吉．迪金森和卡罗尔．奥康纳等演员亦表现不错。

Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake 1965 16mm film 90minsThis was the first attempt to cinematize the works of Irish author James Joyce. Based more on a stage adaptation by Mary Manning than the Joyce novel itself, the film concentrates on Dublin pubkeeper Finnegan (Martin J. Kelly), who while in the throes of inebriation has a vision of his own death. As the bemused Finnegan lies in his coffin, his friends gather for his wake. The "corpse" tries to cut through the keening and platitudes by probing the innermost thoughts of those closest to him. The surprising aspect of this film is that so much of its difficult text works on screen--a tribute to the loving care of scripter/director/ editor Mary Ellen Bute, who, while preparing this film spent her waking hours picking the brains and burrowing through the resource materials of the James Joyce Society.Although director Mary Ellen Bute’s highly regarded Finnegans Wake (aka Passages from Finnegans Wake) is a unique film that is likely to baffle anyone unfamiliar with James Joyce, it cannot be dismissed merely as a literary exercise. The director was right in claiming that her film was “not a translation of the book but a reaction to it”. It is actually based on a stage play by Mary Manning, who was also responsible for the screenplay. Joyce’s elliptical rhetoric and intricate punning, which might be considered a formidable barrier to the filming of this most opaque of his works, proved to be an attraction to Bute, whose enthusiasm for the ‘visual’ and ‘kinetic’ quality of his language led her to the surprising but well-judged move of running subtitles from the original text to support the dialogue.Visual music pioneer Mary Ellen Bute's final film was also her first feature film. James Joyce's classic story of Irish tavern-keeper who dreams of attending his own wake is brought to the screen with a sparkling energy which highlights its maker's career-long exploration of kinetic abstract animation. Perhaps best described as a 'film poem,' Passages from Finnegans Wake was the first attempt to 'cinematize' the works of James Joyce, featuring the author's highly original language spoken by characters and presented as text on screen.