Clash

Ex-convicts Quan (Johnny Trí Nguyễn) and Cang (Lâm Minh Thắng) are part of a hit squad put together by Trinh (Ngô Thanh Vân) to rob a hard drive from French mobsters. Trinh is under the employ of Hắc Long (Hoàng Phúc), an elusive criminal mastermind, who seeks the hard drive to get control of VINASAT.1, Vietnam’s first and only satellite, and kidnaps Trinh’s daughter to get her to do his bidding.

But as the mission is about to succeed, Trinh and her diverse team are betrayed by one of their own and the hard drive falls into the wrong hands. Desperate to get her daughter back, Trinh must hunt down the traitor before the hard drive is sold to the Chinese Triad, but can she trust the remaining members of her crew?

Already Vietnam’s highest grossing film this year, Clash is a twisted story of love and deception set against the backdrop of modern Saigon that reunites martial arts masters Johnny Trí Nguyễn and Ngô Thanh Vân and features the directing debut of Lê Thanh Sơn. The film was released under the title Bay Rong in Vietnam.

—CHÁNH PHƯƠNG FILMS