As a director, Ivan Lai's career has been all over the map. With entries like Angel and Daughter of Darkness being some of the best examples of their respective genres, Lai has shown flashes of brilliance. But then he has bestowed dreck like Kingdom of Mob upon us, a poor excuse for a Triad picture that is the cinematic equivalent to taking a pointy swizzle stick and shoving it directly into your cornea.

Thankfully -- despite an extremely stupid title -- God.com isn't that painful, but it isn't anything all that exciting, either. Lai seems content on letting the "true crime" hook (some events of the movie are loosely based on a group suicide that occurred in the Telford Gardens area of Hong Kong in 1998) and some bare flesh from the admittedly extremely cute Grace Lam satiate the audience and keep them interested in the proceedings. As you might guess, the formula doesn't really work, leaving the audience gazing at their navels rather than marvelling at the events on-screen.

Things start out promisingly enough, with Louis Koo playing Chan, the cop who is investigating the aforementioned suicide, which appears to be the result of cult shenanigans gone awry. One of Chan's colleagues suggests he visits with Chui (Anthony Wong), a fellow officer who is said to be an expert on religion and the supernatural. Chan doesn't believe in what Chui says at first, but soon finds himself going down a dark road in pursuit of a mysterious cult leader known only as The Pope (Andrew Lin).

The basic story is a nice set-up, and with a cast that also includes one of Hong Kong's go-to guys for playing villains, Mark Cheng, one could probably expect something fun or interesting to open up over the next ninety minutes. But that's not the case. Boiled down to its' core elements, God.com is a rote Hong Kong police thriller that tries to liven things up with some bare boobies and strange religious imagery. While the effort is appreciated, the end results are a bit of a mish-mash that will likely not really leave you either pumped up or totally disgusted -- just maybe a little bored and wanting for something more compelling or at least a bit different.

RATING: 5