'Mayhem' sees a promising lawyer fired through a workmate's duplicity at the same time as a
virus, ID7, which makes those infected lose their inhibitions is released in the company's multi-
storey building. Unable to leave he has to fight his way back up through the floors to the
accompaniment of unbridled sex and comic-book violence which continues with increasing
ingenuity until he reaches the top floor and the ultimate goal. Definitely not to be taken at all
seriously although I suppose it could be read as a satire on the behaviour in large companies by
those trying to succeed.
'The Villainess' is a first-rate Korean film with a stunningly virtuoso opening sequence involving
the heroine. Trained as an assassin in China, she loses her mentor but is given the chance of a
new life as a government agent in South Korea where her cover is that of a theatre actress. The
film does not completely follow the pattern one would expect from Hollywood films but the end
finds her getting revenge but not in the way she thought. The action did sag a little at time but
the set pieces were sufficiently brilliant to make up for this.
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