a5c7b9f00b A portable nuclear device, DC8, has been stolen from South Korea by a ruthless criminal (Chang Chen) and his accomplice (Janice Man). As the weapon will change hands in Hong Kong, Lee (Nick Cheung) from the territory's Counter Terrorism Response Unit sets up a task force, which includes police officer Fan (Shawn Yue), to deal with the crisis. He enlists physics professor Siu (Jacky Cheung) as an adviser and has to work with South Korean weapon experts Choi (Ji Jin Hee) and Pok (Choi Si Won). Despite their efforts, the elusive criminal mastermind, Helios, is always a step ahead of Lee. I give the only one star to gratitude the effort to create firefighting scene from the beginning until the end of the movie. I can say that this movie has poor story. I could see very clear every puzzled that the story want to build. It was too many clue. the nuclear weapon is mentioned as the most powerful that can destroy the entire city (regarding the professor said in the helicopter) but we cannot feel the "huge" about it. <br/><br/>The moment when i saw 3 people examined the nuclear in the open area. seriously? I thought there would be a secret bunker to safe this nuclear, and then i saw that this place is also used to do interrogation to a criminal, Scene in the restaurant where the 2 Korean policeman and 1 girl talked about the most powerful nuclear in public with high voice, I was like, "wtf. this is so stupid." I went to see Helios with no preconceived idea of the critics response and fearing the worse but I was pleasantly surprised and had a good thrill thanks to a few decent action scenes and I felt entertained throughout, which I cannot say about Cold War, one of the film makers previous effort. The cast was good and I loved the way each country was presenting itself in a very good light but different from one another. Modern movie clichés if you like…Anyway,it had the style one associates with the directors but again, unlike Cold War, it actually looked like HK and made it an OTT version of the city which suited the movie ambitious concept(some may say pretentious). At times walking the fine line between slick and cheesy, it got me involved and I will go and see the sequel.<br/><br/>A good actioner with enough pizzaz to satisfy fans of Asian commercial movies.
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