Drug War
[A] ferocious crime story ... the brilliant, unsettling action scenes - ugly, savage, dehumanizing - speak volumes.
Drug War
Manufacturing just fifty grams of meth in China will earn you a death sentence, and Timmy Choi (Louis Koo) has manufactured tons of it. After a violent lab accident, he's in the custody of Captain Zhang (Sun Honglei), and now he has only one chance to avoid execution: turn informant and help Zhang's undercover team take down the powerful cartel he's been cooking for. But as the uneasy allies are forced to compress months of police work into just 72 sleepless hours, the increasingly desperate police are quickly stretched past their limits. As things spin wildly out of control, the line between duty and recklessness is blurred, and it becomes unclear whether the cop or the criminal truly has the upper hand.
Genre
Crime
Web Site
Runtime
105
Language
Cantonese,
Mandarin
Director
Johnnie To
Cast
Honglei Sun,
Yi Huang
FEATURED REVIEW
Boyd van Hoeij, Variety
Hong Kong action maestro Johnnie To takes his genre filmmaking savvy to the mainland in “Drug War,” a nail-biter that’s actually quite light on action but so well-scripted and shot, it’s nonetheless edge-of-your-seat material. Co-penned by regular collaborator and fellow Milkyway producer Wai Ka-fai ...
Played at
Pasadena
Playhouse 7
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