Don (played by Cantopop composer Mark Lui) is a harried yuppie living in Hong Kong who has a one-night stand with a mysterious woman named Sonia.

[1] Author Gina Marchetti writes that with Rave Fever Alan Mak "experimented with elliptical narratives reminiscent of Hong Kong New Wave films".

[4] In his book Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment, author David Bordwell calls the film "an experiment in Gen-X network narrative"[5] involving "tracing crisscrossing love affairs".

"[7] In his book Poetics of Cinema, author David Bordwell likewise notes a similarity between the American and Hong Kong films, writing, "Go (1999) and Rave Fever (1999) echo the network approach by reiterating events seen from different characters' angles and by expanding the roles assigned to bit players.

"[8] The website brns.com gave the film a rating of 7.5/10, writing, "This is not a sexy, highly charged exploration of the HK rave scene at all – but in fact a fairly subdued but very amusing comedy.