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Breaking News

Dai si gin

Hong Kong, China

2004

90 Min
Color
2.35:1
English, Mandarin, Cantonese
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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DIR Johnnie To

PROD Biao Cao, Johnnie To

SCR Hing-Ka Chan, Yip Tin-Shing

DP Cheng Siu-keung

CAST Nick Cheung, Simon Yam, Maggie Siu, Kelly Chen, Lam Suet

ED David Richardson, David M. Richardson

MUSIC Ben Cheung, Chung Chi Wing

Cannes (Out of Competition)

Synopsis

When an ambulatory TV news unit live broadcasts the embarrassing defeat of a police battalion by five bank robbers in a ballistic showdown, the credibility of the police force drops to a nadir. While on a separate investigation in a run-down building, detective Cheung discovers the hideout of the robbers. Cheung and his men have also entered the building, getting ready to take their foes out any minute. Meanwhile, in order to beat the media at its own game, Inspector Rebecca decides to turn the stakeout into a breaking news show. –IMDb

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Johnnie To

Following his directorial debut with the 1980 period martial arts fantasy The Enigmatic Case, To’s career came to something of an apex in the late 1980s thanks to such memorable action films as The Big Heat and tender, personal dramas like All About Ah-Long (the latter of which landed star Chow Yun-Fat a Best Actor award at the 1990 Hong Kong Film Awards). After taking the helm for such memorable action films as The Heroic Trio and directing Stephen Chow in such films as Justice, My Foot and Mad Monk in the early ‘90s, To moved into producing with the creation of independent film company Milky Way Films, a company which yielded such popular Hong Kong action efforts as Nai-hoi Yau’s The Longest Nite and Expect the Unexpected. Though To’s production company was indeed a success, his career behind the camera was in need of some rejuvenation, an issue which he readily addressed with the release of his highly praised 1999 crime drama The Mission.

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CJ Roy

13Nov11

"Man, I feel like To just cracked his knuckles and said "Alright motherfuckers, you think you know what filmmaking is?" - Jack Lehtonen on the opening long take.

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Samuel Dupont-Foisy

5Mar11

A good action movie, but the media angle isn't subtle enough (especially in the dialogues).

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aaron mannino

11Dec09

Best continuous crane shot ever? Pretty damn close.

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