Can the woman he cares about really be a cold-blooded killer? Snake Charmer suffers heavily from an excess of irritating editing and erratic camera-work (especially whip pans, each accompanied by annoying 'whoosh' sound effect), but strip away all of the unnecessarily showy film-making techniques, and there's still very little of interest-a mediocre mystery, saddled with dodgy CGI effects (the poisoned victims hallucinate, imagining that they are being attacked by giant snakes), boring action scenes, dull dialogue (including a riveting chat about Japanese coffee and German crockery), and forgettable characters. Inspector Chi-Wai Man (Jackie Lui) is assigned to the case, and, as the bodies pile up, he slowly falls for the lovely Melissa (despite being phobic about reptiles). After patrons at a Coyote Ugly-style Hong Kong nightclub begin to turn up dead, their bodies bearing strange wounds and traces of a rare poison, Melissa (Marsha Yuen)-one of its five feisty female owners, and an avid snake collector-becomes the prime suspect.
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