Watched [ Cold War 寒战 ] with my buddies, SH + Jess + Nixon & Melvin at GCS 1U last weekend. It was claimed to be the best and most anticipated police thriller movie in Hong Kong for the past 10 years, starring Aaron Kwok 郭富城, Tony Leung 梁家辉, Eddie Peng 彭于晏, Aarif Rahman 李治廷, Charlie Yeung 杨采妮, Gordon Lam 林家栋 cum guest starring, Andy Lau 刘德华.The story plot begun with Hong Kong, the Asia’s safest city is about to be tested when EU71, a police van that full loaded with some most advanced equipment and its five officers disappears at nowhere out of sudden. Due to urgency, the acting highest Commissioner has declared and launched a rescue operation, code named Cold War to tackle the safety of hostages and retain the reputation of police force. There, it started off the cat-mouse chasing game between the hijackers and the highest levels of police management whereby, the hijackers possessed direct knowledge of confidential police procedures. It then, caused conflicts between both Deputy Commissioner of Administrative, Sean KF Lau ( Aaron Kwok ) and Deputy Commissioner of Operations, Waise M.B. Lee ( Tony Leung ) in said rescue operation where, none of them aware that they were actually being put into a stratagem that decides who will climb to the top when the Commissioner step down in near future.
Cold War brought out the power of struggles, corruption and inner workings of Hong Kong’s police force. Overall good, but I felt the movie was a little too many yet fast-paced plots that compact together until it has to rush the ending with a simple straightforward climax and unanswered questions that give leeway to further the storyline in future.
