![]() The man has unfinished beef to settle because his partner is killed in the arrest of the robbers. Lam portrays Captain Wang, an experienced Guangdong top cop, who’s roped in when the size of the crime goes political, drawing the attention of the state’s Provincial Security Bureau. “He won’t let you find him,” Chen’s father cautions the police about his son’s twisted Lex Luthor mind after only the cousins escape capture.ĭust to Dust: Da Peng (right) is determined not to give up his Taylor Swift concert tickets. The quick-tempered dude is dangerously volatile. The high-risk taker’s alter-ego is, deep down, a criminal mastermind who’s more ruthless than his gun-toting associates. The cocky show-off plies business partners and workers with booze in a Chinese restaurant while plotting an illegal cash injection with his hesitant cousin-sidekick, Xinnian ( No More Bets' Sun Yang), to solve their money woes. There’s great dirty fun in watching Chen promising to build a government-funded bridge while running on empty. And as in the US flick, both cop and crook are given equal, very effective weightage.Īt first, you’d think the bespectacled Da is chubby comic relief as HK director Jonathan Li ( The Brink) nails the greedy-capitalist Chinese economic boom culture of the 1990s.ĭa plays Chen Xinwen, a construction company owner so bold and unscrupulous he even dares to cheat the Chinese government. Twenty one years later, a chance sighting of the runaway villain in a video leads to the lawman, now retired, going back on the hunt. While Lam’s wavy hair seems more resilient in standing the test of time. Da is a standout as he ages and loses weight transforming into an unrecognisable person under a false identity. Right through to their eventual tense showdown long past the dark deed when they’re older, greyer men. In 1995, five armed robbers committed the biggest bank heist in Chinese history with a haul of 15 million RMB (S$2.85 million).Īl Pacino’s pursuing cop transplanted from Heat - played by Hong Kong's Gordon Lam - and Robert De Niro’s bad guy on the run - played by mainland Chinese actor-variety show host Da Peng - are both so compellingly drawn here we’re gripped by their personal stories. ![]() Being a PRC film, it naturally affirms the long, righteous arm of the law. So in spirit, this pic, based apparently on a true crime, emits Heat’s heat in a fresh Asian way. But armed bandits killing security guards escorting a bank car stashed with cash here is still a damn big deal.Ī dogged cop in southern China chases a fugitive baddie over two decades with perspectives seen from both sides. Okay, way milder with no insane thousand-bullet shootout. This sleeper hit in China is kinda like the mainland’s version of Michael Mann's bank-robbery thriller Heat. Starring Da Peng, Gordon Lam Ka-Tung, Zhang Songwen, Qi Xi, Sunny Sun ![]()
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