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明嘉靖三十七年，宦官权倾朝野。方术国师为谄媚监首厂公，提出以“活虎心”炼丹，用以“壮阳重生”。故东厂在猛虎出没地——西南边陲小镇设立“司礼猎场”，猎捕猛虎用以炼化。但没有想到，此举使得奇异病毒进入老虎体内，让老虎发狂，并形成瘟疫迅速传播......

唐僧（薛梅康饰）想要只身一人下山化缘，遭到了孙悟空（吴文超饰）的阻拦。然而，唐僧却并没有听徒弟的警告，一意孤行，结果在化缘途中遇见了居住在盘丝洞里的蜘蛛精（殷明珠饰）。蜘蛛精将唐僧捉住盘丝洞，想要献给大王，孙悟空久久不见师父归来，出发寻找。猪八戒亦邂逅了盘丝洞里的众美艳女妖，受到了女妖们的魅惑，鬼迷心窍的猪八戒放松了警惕，结果也被妖怪们抓获。孙悟空来到盘丝洞和众妖们展开了激烈的战斗，然寡不敌众，在这一紧要关头，观世音菩萨现身，教给了孙悟空一套降妖除魔之术。重装上阵的孙悟空再战群妖，并且最终获得了胜利。

　　六年前，拥有绝世本领的焰众忍者虎影（斋藤工 饰）与月影（芳贺优里亚 饰）坠入爱河，后者更怀上了虎影的孩子。然而焰众首领东云幻斋（椎名英姬 饰）绝不允许手下有这种叛逆之举，于是对二人进行严刑拷打。在遭受了残酷的折磨后，虎影夫妇一路逃亡，最终在某个偏远山村落脚，和他们的儿子孤月过着与世无争的平凡生活。这一日，东云派出忍者前往耶严藩偷窃金银秘卷，谁知却遭遇对方殊死抵抗，最终只拿到了银卷。为了得到金卷，东云找到虎影夫妇，并且绑架了二人的儿子来要挟他们潜入耶严城。
　　为了营救最爱的孩子，夫妇俩只得再入血雨腥风的江湖，投身于连绵不断的忍者大战之中……

　　电竞高校迎来了前所未有的危机，专打黑赛的神秘战队K前来踢馆，势要将电竞高校的牌子踩于脚下。校长委任学校第一顺位的RPG战队前去迎战，但却让战队中第一上单的天谷将参...

　　Having witnessed his junkie father killed Russell Stevens grows up to become a policeman and make a difference. When he is offered an undercover job by Gerald Carver he accepts and begins to build a relationship with David Jason in order to get to the main dealers. However as he is forced to deal drugs and kill to keep his cover he finds the lines between cop and criminal being lost – is he a cop pretending to be a dealer or a dealer pretending to be a cop?
　　Larry (as he was then) Fishburne's first lead role was a typically dark vehicle. The story is the usual one of cop losing himself when undercover, however it manages to be more than that for most of the time. Co-written by Tolkin, who wrote The Player, this naturally has a nice cynical edge to it when it looks at the US's hypocritical approach to drug control and the political links between the street hustlers and the political high rollers who court respectability. The story does eventually settle into a traditional setting but even then it works well as a thriller.
　　The multi-talented Bill Duke directs well with a gritty feel and a few nice touches. However several things are a bit iffy. For most of the film Fishburne's narration/voice over is a bit like a cross between Apocalypse Now and Blade Runner – it comes across as a little too dark and heavy and also explains things like we can't figure it out ourselves. However once you get into the film it's not as big a deal. My main problem lies with the characters.
　　Fishburne is excellent, a real model of underlying anger and violence, Goldblum is good but perhaps a little OTT on the yuppie/violence thing, but there's good support from Smith and Spin City's beautiful (and often underused – but not here) Victoria Dillard. However the two main white characters (Goldblum and Smith) are both smeared with racist insinuations – Smith appears to insult his black officers and doesn't care about the junkies, while Goldblum is fascinated about all things black and talks about them as wild beautiful beasts and loves having sex with "black'. These things aren't a major problem, but with basically only two white characters in it, it's a little worrying that both are given that edge.
　　However these are minor complaints that get lost with a good thriller. Fishburne excels and Duke delivers a story that is a good thriller but also has a jaded, subversive edge.