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The Mission
Why this pick
Like Beast Cops, it finds loyalty and moral pressure inside Hong Kong crime networks, but with an even leaner, cooler construction and exquisitely controlled bursts of violence.
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MOVIE1998 1h 50m HKG
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
For the same urgent urban grit and sympathy for people caught between police and criminal systems, this compresses a brutal manhunt into one increasingly desperate night.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Tung (Anthony Wong) is a street cop in Hong Kong who is friends with a Triad (underground society) ''dai lo'' named Fai (Roy Cheung). Fai hires a hitman to murder a business rival; the hit goes wrong and Fai, implicated in the incident, goes on the run. This leaves Tung in the put upon position to look after Fai's affairs.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Michael Wong
Michael Cheung
Kathy Chow
Yoyo
Anthony Chau-Sang Wong
Tung