In a series of highly stylised and utterly stupid set pieces, Wong shows us Kwok’s journeys into his own imagination; these play like a costume party attended by several Nick Cheungs, each one dressed for a different personality. While it’s never clear how these vignettes help him solve his cases, they do look unintentionally funny.

When we first meet Kwok, he is a former police detective who has quit the force after a traumatic incident in which his twin brother was murdered in front of him and his memory somehow failed at the key moment.

He is brought in from the cold when a bizarre murder case claims a morally questionable member of society and an employee at a video game company, May Chou (Zhang Yishang), turns herself in, specifically asks for Kwok, and foretells more ritualistic killings of other bad apples to come.

Although Suspect introduces us to a mythical serial killer called the Ghost Judge, and indulges in computer effects to illustrate how the victims are punished by supernatural forces, it becomes obvious almost too quickly that all the film’s fantastical scenes take place solely in the minds of characters under hypnosis.

As Kwok tracks down the actual culprit while fighting his own demons on the side, Suspect continues to bombard its audience with more genre clichés than most self-respecting filmmakers would choose to play with.

For Hong Kong cinema fans, it may at least be worth noting that the cast also includes Niki Chow Lai-kei as Kwok’s psychotherapist, Patrick Tam Yiu-man as his police colleague, and Michael Tong Man-lung as a shady hypnotist who promises to return in a bigger role should this sorry production ever spawn a sequel.