Directed by:
Kei-fung ToCinematography:
Siu-keung JengComposer:
Xavier JamauxCast:
Hong-lei Sun, Louis Koo, Crystal Huang Yi, Yun-xiang Gao, Wallace Chung Hon-leung, Guangjie Li, Tao Guo, Ching Li, Hai-peng Lu, Eddie Cheung, Gordon Lam (more)VOD (1)
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Manufacturing just fifty grams of meth in China will earn you a death sentence. Timmy Choi (Louis Koo) has manufactured tons, and after a violent lab accident, he's in the custody of Captain Zhang (Sun Honglei). Now, he has only one chance to avoid execution: turn informant and help Zhang's undercover team take down the powerful cartel he's been cooking for. But as the uneasy allies rush to execute a months-long operation in just a few days, the increasingly desperate police are quickly stretched past their limits. As things spin wildly out of control, the line between duty and recklessness is blurred, and it becomes unclear whether Zhang or Choi actually has the upper hand.
Long considered the master of the Hong Kong crime thriller, Johnnie To's first mainland production eschews "two guns at once" mayhem in favor of atmosphere and a tightly-wound plot punctuated with impeccably choreographed bursts of startlingly realistic violence, in this intricate puzzle box of a film that ignited a firestorm of controversy in its homeland upon its release.
(Well Go USA Entertainment)
Cast
Hong-lei Sun
China
Best movies:
The Road Home (1999)
Happy Times (2000)
Drug War (2012)
Louis Koo
Hong Kong
Best movies:
Lost in Time (2003)
Protégé (2007)
Election 2 (2006)
Crystal Huang Yi
China
Best movies:
Finding Mr. Right (2013)
Drug War (2012)
Romancing in Thin Air (2012)
Yun-xiang Gao
China
Best movies:
Drug War (2012)
Wallace Chung Hon-leung
Hong Kong
Best movies:
Drug War (2012)
Monster Hunt (2015)
Three (2016)
Guangjie Li
China
Best movies:
Drug War (2012)
Romancing in Thin Air (2012)
Motorway (2012)
Tao Guo
China
Best movies:
To Live (1994)
Getting Home (2007)
The Founding of a Party (2011)
Ching Li
China
Best movies:
The Founding of a Party (2011)
Drug War (2012)
Mr. and Mrs. Incredible (2011)
Hai-peng Lu
China
Best movies:
The Iron Fisted Monk (1977)
Zero to Hero (2021)
The Longest Nite (1998)
Eddie Cheung
Hong Kong
Best movies:
Election 2 (2006)
Exiled (2006)
Eye in the Sky (2007)
Gordon Lam
Hong Kong
Best movies:
Ip Man (2008)
Infernal Affairs (2002)
A Simple Life (2011)
Michelle Ye
China
Best movies:
The Founding of a Party (2011)
Drug War (2012)
Dream Home (2010)
Suet Lam
China
Best movies:
Love on Delivery (1994)
Election 2 (2006)
The Legend Is Born - Ip Man (2010)
Berg Ng
Hong Kong
Best movies:
Infernal Affairs (2002)
Eye in the Sky (2007)
2046 (2004)
Philip Keung
Hong Kong
Best movies:
Unbeatable (2013)
Angel Terminators (1992)
The Beast Stalker (2008)
Ting-ting Gan
China
Best movies:
Drug War (2012)
Kung Fu Dunk (2008)
Silver Hawk (2004)
Tai-shen Cheng
China
Best movies:
Mountain Cry (2015)
Biutiful (2010)
The World (2004)
Nick Zy
China
Best movies:
Mountain Cry (2015)
Drug War (2012)
The Bullet Vanishes (2012)
Chung Chiu
China
Best movies:
To Live (1994)
Drug War (2012)
Painted Skin (2008)