Inner Senses borrows quite heavily from Hideo Nakata's Ring and M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense, but lacks the originality and overall creepy feeling that these two film handled so well.

The last film that Leslie Cheung would ever make before his tragic suicide in April of 2003 finds the Hong Kong star playing Jim Law, a psychiatrist who takes on, at the request of his closest friend, a patient who 'sees dead people.' Having been to a string of doctors previously, all with a zero percent success ratio, Yan doesn't expect much from her therapy sessions with Jim and he thinks that all of her problems stem from her upbringing and her self esteem.

Eventually though, Jim finds that she might not be making all of this up and as he gets pulled further into her world, he also begins to fall in love with her despite his better judgment and despite the whole doctor/patient complications provided that their professional relationship has already established.

As things develop between the two of them though, Jim forces Yan to deal with her past, all the while burying his under the carpet until he too is forced to deal with his whether he likes it or not, as he realizes that if he doesn't, he'll lose not only his relationship with Yan, but possibly a whole lot more… maybe even his life.

Inner Senses could have been a great movie. It has very good performances from the always reliable Leslie Cheung and the pretty yet subtle Karena Lam. The sets, particularly Yan's apartment, are eerie and wonderfully shadowy, while Lo Chi Leung's direction is slick and careful. Indeed, the first half hour of the movie sets itself up quite nicely and just as things should start to get really suspenseful, they instead meander off into love story territory and while this doesn't necessarily have to spell doom for a movie, especially a Hong Kong production, in this case, it here loses track of where it started off for in the first place.

Video:

Inner Senses is presented letterboxed at 1.85.1 and this appears to be it's original aspect ratio. There aren't really any problems with the colors or black levels of the transfer save for a few minor instances where some compression shows, but there is more print damage visible on this presentation than you'd expect to see for a film that is only a couple of years old. It's by no means a terrible transfer, but it is a little rougher than I expected it to look.