Raymond Wong Movies
A conflicted bodyguard is forced to choose between going with his instincts or accepting the fact that the one he loves may be responsible for a lucrative money-laundering scheme in director Marco Mak's tense crime drama. Billie and Connie are bank investors desperate to recover 200 million dollars in missing laundered bills. With time quickly running out and no place left to turn, the desperate pair hires a team of seasoned bodyguards that coincidently includes Connie's ex-lover Nick. Though at first Nick thinks that Billy may be both the brains behind the well-executed scheme as well as the man behind the increasingly frequent attempts on Connie's life, a startling revelation soon has him suspecting that it may in fact be Connie who masterminded the plan. As the clock ticks down and the assassins close in, Nick is forced to make a pressured decision that may cost Connie her life if he's wrong. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- 2004
A woman becomes caught in the web of a gang of thieves who literally steal the lives from their victims in this thriller. Fung Chi-ching (Angelica Lee) is a woman living with kidney disease who is conveniently dating a doctor, Tsui Wai-man (Andy Hui). While attending a close friend's wedding, Chi-ching wanders into a hotel room to discover a dead body, nude and bloody and missing a kidney. While giving her report to the police, Chi-ching tells them she saw a woman making her way down the corridor as she entered the room; the woman in question turns out to be Suen Ling (Karena Lam), a medical researcher who works with Wai-man and had a brief fling with him. When Chi-ching identifies Suen Ling as the woman fleeing the scene of the crime, the police chalk it up to jealousy given their past history, but when a man who sells human organs on the black market abducts Chi-ching, Suen Ling comes to her rescue, and the two join forces with Wai-man to locate and capture the murderous thieves. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Benny Chan's Heroic Duo features an unlikely duo working together to crack a very mysterious case. Officer Ken Li (Ekin Cheng) learns that a fellow officer has committed a horrible crime. However, the perpetrator has no recollection of having done it. Ken Li seeks help from a former psychiatrist and current prisoner Jack Lai (Leon Lai). The pair soon learns that a master hypnotist might be behind this and several other disturbing events. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Leon Lai Ming, Ekin Cheng, (more)
An honest cop who may have inadvertently killed his partner during a particularly intense raid finds his life in danger when the grown-up sons of both the fallen the cop and the deceased kingpin who was killed in the chaos come gunning for him in a tense police thriller co-directed by Marco Mak and Wong Jing, and starring Hong Kong film legend Anthony Wong. Huang (Wong) is a righteous police officer haunted by a harrowing accident. It's been ten years since the fateful raid that resulted in the death of both his partner and the most feared criminal on the streets, and though the men's sons have grown older, their vengeance still burns as hot as ever. Now, as Huang is assigned the task of protecting a vile gangster and his teenage daughter (Gillian Chung), he is about to face a whole new danger as the sons of the fallen men attempt to decide if they should go after the man responsible for their father's deaths either alone or together. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Anthony Wong, Raymond Wong, (more)
Johnny To's police drama PTU details the ramifications of an officer losing his weapon. Seargant Lo (Lam Suet), head of the police anti-crime division, finds his gun missing after an altercation with a gang. Police Tactical Unit (PTU) team leader Mike Ho (Simon Yam), not wanting to get the soon-to-be-promoted Lo in hot water, gives him some time to recover the firearm. While Li and Mike attempt to find the gun before the gang kills anyone with it, police investigators suspect that there may be corruption within the PTU. To filmed the picture off-and-on for over two years before it played at the 2003 Berlin Film Festival. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- 2000
Hong Kong heartthrob Andy Lau and singing star Sammi Cheng team up for this romantic comedy. Kinki (Cheng) is a high-strung young woman employed by a Hong Kong computer firm who finds herself working alongside straight-laced salesman Andy (Lau). Kinki has just broken up with her boyfriend, while Andy has recently parted ways with his girlfriend (Fiona Leung). Kinki and Andy initially mix as well as oil and water, and Andy goes so far as to warn her that if she can't straighten up within a month, she'll be given her pink slip. But an attraction begins to develop between them during a business trip to China, and while Kinki finds herself attracting the attentions of a wealthy Internet mogul (Raymond Wong) and Andy finds his old girlfriend is showing new interest in him, the two begin to wonder if they might be better off putting their differences aside after working hours. But Andy learns he has more important matters to contend with when he discovers another salesman at the firm wants him out of the way -- and is willing to go to any lengths to be rid of him. Gu Nam Gwa Nui was a major box-office success in Hong Kong, where it was the top-grossing domestic release of 2000 and outperformed every American film released that year except Mission Impossible 2. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Andy Lau, Fiona Leung, (more)
Noted Hong Kong director Johnny To creates this Chinese Western set in Macao. Lau Ching-wan plays Michael Cheung, a triad member and newly released ex-con, who is trying to track down his wife and the $2,000,000 she stole. On the way, he runs into lonely workaholic Judy (Ruby Wong), who lives with her young son. Gun-shy, the two adults slowly edge toward something like a relationship, until outside events complicate matters. Where a Good Man Goes was screened at the 1999 Pusan Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Lau Ching-Wan, Ruby Wong, (more)
- 1999
Hong Kong filmmaker Derek Chiu directs this quiet romance that recalls the gentle style of Francois Truffaut. Young and attractive Mandy (Yo Yo Mung) flees the hustle of Hong Kong proper and a failed relationship for the bucolic quiet of Peng Chau, one of several dozen communities located on the former colony's outlying islands. There she stays in a rooming house with the mute and slightly slow Kam Shui (Louis Koo). In spite of herself, she falls for the misfit, much to the consternation of Angel (Siu Au), Kam Shui's tomboyish best friend who also harbors feelings for him. Chiu masterfully brings out the nuances of life on the island in this simple tale, simply told. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Yo Yo Mung, Louis Koo, (more)
In this "cops and robbers" film, a raid on a jewelry store staged by a band of amateur hold-up artists goes horribly wrong, leading to a shoot-out. The elite Organized Crime Bureau team, headed by Captain Ching King Gen, is poised to go into action at a moment's notice. Working as a unit, they bring law and order to Hong Kong streets, where they must rely on their courage and skills to survive. Expect the Unexpected is a perfect genre film showing everyday life and reflecting the current situation in Hong Kong after the hand-over to China. "Unexpectedness" is the underlying theme, which also applies to misdirected affections and miscalculations between the cops and the robbers. The favorite line of the film is "You never pay attention to what I say." Expect the Unexpected was screened as part of the International Forum of New Cinema section of the 49th Berlin Film Festival, 1999. ~ Gönül Dönmez-Colin, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Lau Ching-Wan, Simon Yam, (more)
In the film Happy New Year (1987), actor Peter Falk donned old-age makeup to play a senior citizen. Eight years later, he did it again, twice, in the TV movie remake of The Sunshine Boys (1995) and this film, a comedy-drama. Falk stars as Rocky Holzcek, a cantankerous 76-year-old Polish-American baker who insists, despite relatives' protests, upon adopting his young grandson Michael when the boy's parents pass away. Twenty years later, Michael (D.B. Sweeney) is a medical student who's forced to take in his still-spry grandfather when the old man is evicted from his apartment building. Although the crusty, outspoken Rocky gets along fine with Michael's Chinese college roommates, he is less enthused about his grandson's girlfriend Beth (Julianne Moore). Eventually, Michael and Beth marry, move away and have children, while Rocky continues working as a baker, passing the age of 100. When a tragedy befalls Michael and his kids, the old man once again comes to his grandson's rescue, but even a force of nature like Rocky can't last forever. Roommates was loosely based on the real-life experiences of screenwriter Max Apple and his grandfather. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Peter Falk, D.B. Sweeney, (more)
