Line Walker (film)

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Line Walker
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Chinese 使徒行者
Directed by Jazz Boon
Written byCat Kwan
Produced by Wong Jing
Virginia Lok
Tommy Leung
Starring
CinematographyKenny Tse
Edited byAzrael Chung
Music by Yusuke Hatano
Production
companies
Release date
  • 11 August 2016 (2016-08-11)
Running time
109 minutes [1]
Countries
  • Hong Kong
  • China
Languages
  • Cantonese
  • Mandarin
Box officeUS$92.3 million [2]

Line Walker is a 2016 action thriller film adapted from the 2014 TVB series of the same name. Directed by Jazz Boon and starring Nick Cheung, Louis Koo, Francis Ng; Charmaine Sheh, Benz Hui and Au Siu-wai reprised their roles from the original drama. [3] [4] It was released in Hong Kong and mainland China on 11 August 2016. [4]

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Plot

Inspector Q (Francis Ng) and agent Ding Siu-ka (Charmaine Sheh) are top members of CIB Department, they are after a drug racket that is taking over the city. Unexpectedly, they receive a mystery message from a missing undercover agent "Blackjack". CIB tries to locate and process Blackjack before it's too late. The paranoid drug mafia leader Tung Pak-ho (Li Guangjie) plays his own troop on each other's throats, suspecting a mole. Meanwhile, boss Blue (Nick Cheung) and his right-hand man Shiu Chi-long (Louis Koo) participate in an internal struggle to become the top dogs irrespective of their strong friendship.

After surviving and shooting their way out of a drug deal ambush in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, it becomes clear that Blue is Blackjack and upon knowing this, Shiu Chi-long tries to protect himself by using Blackjack's identity. They survive doubts and struggles between them but only for Blue to lose his life to an assassin sent by ruthless Tung Pak-ho. Inspector Q's life is lost facing goons and Ding's life is saved by her godfather Foon Hei Gor (Hui Shiu-hung), who is an undercover agent posing as a legendary retired don who is looking to get back into the criminal underworld in the city. Finally, Foon Hei Gor gets Tung Pak-ho arrested after punishing him for what he had done to his wife when Tung Pak-ho started out as a criminal.

Cast

Cameos

Reception

The film grossed CN¥606.2 million at the Chinese box office. [3] It grossed US$92.3 million worldwide. [2]

Sequel

[5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Line Walker (15)". British Board of Film Classification . 7 September 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Line Walker (2016)". The Numbers . Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  3. 1 2 "使徒行者（2016）". cbooo.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved 7 November 2016.
  4. 1 2 "使徒行者 (2016)". movie.douban.com (in Chinese). douban.com . Retrieved 6 July 2016.
  5. ↑ "Line Walker 2: Invisible Spy". AMCTheaters.com. 15 August 2019. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
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