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Watch: 寒戰 2012 123movies, Full Movie Online – The police department has long been untouchable until tonight when hijackers kidnap 5 highly trained officers. Cryptic messages from the hijackers expose a mole within the task force..
Plot: Five police officers in Hong Kong are kidnapped. The police commissioner is on a business trip overseas. Two vice commissioners, Sean Rau and M.B. Lee, then take over the case. The two vice commissioners are rivals who both vie for the police commissioner seat. At first, M.B. Lee takes the lead in the case, but comes to a dead end. Sean Lau then takes the lead, but he falls into a trap. Both men are then investigated by the ICAC (Independent Commission Against Corruption).
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Casey’s Movie Mania: COLD WAR (2012)
Touted as “the next INFERNAL AFFAIRS”, COLD WAR is a bold, if heavily flawed action thriller that gives a fresh perspective rarely seen in a cop genre by showing an internal conflict between a group of high-ranking police officers struggling to solve a case.

The movie opens fast and furious, beginning with a sudden explosion at a crowded movie theater. Following immediately is a separate scene where an arrogant drunk driver speeds through the Hong Kong’s freeways and ends up crashing his car pretty badly. An EU (Emergency Unit) van loaded with five cops arrives at the accident scene, which is reportedly being hijacked and vanishes from police radar. Despite all the so-called expensive and sophisticated technology at their disposal, the police can’t even track down their own van. Apparently one of the five cops that ended up being kidnapped by masked hijackers is Joe (Eddie Peng), son of Deputy Commissioner of Police from Operation Division, M.B. Lee (Tony Leung Ka-Fai).

While the Commissioner of Police (Michael Wong) is out of the country, Lee has been appointed as acting commissioner and leads the rescue operation code named “Cold War”. Lee’s strategy is an all-out aggressive attack with “non-negotiable” policy against the kidnappers, but Deputy Commissioner of Police from Management Division, Sean Lau (Aaron Kwok) disagrees with his harsh decision and demands the situation to be evaluated thoroughly before any proper action is taken. Lau also suspects that Lee is overreacted especially since his son is being kidnapped as well. As the internal conflict is mounting up, Lee continues to bark his authority all for the wrong reasons when he harshly refuses to let his Head of Police Public Relations Branch, Phoenix Leung (Charlie Yeung) to release info about the kidnapping news to the public. The particular situation prompted Lau to step in with some top-brass supports from his best friend, Senior Superintendent Vincent Tsui (Chin Kar-Lok), Senior Superintendent Albert Kwong (Gordon Lam) and Secretary of Security for the Hong Kong Security Bureau, Philip Luk (Andy Lau) to overturn Lee’s position so he can replace him as the new acting commissioner.

Once Lee is forced to step down, Lau immediately takes charge and proceeds on negotiating with the kidnappers who demands a huge amount of money or else. However, Lau’s attempt to deliver the ransom money goes terribly awry and even leaves one of the crucial police officers dead. Now most of the money goes missing.

At this point onward, both Lee and Lau become prime suspects under the investigation of ICAC (Independent Commission Against Corruption), which is lead by a young ICAC investigator Billy Cheung (Aarif Rahman). According to Cheung, he has a reason to believe that Lee or Lau has something to do with the missing money and the overall conspiracy of the kidnapping case. Now the biggest question is: what really happens? If the synopsis above does sounds confusing to you, that’s because first-time writers and directors Longman Leung and Sunny Luk stuffed way too many plots in a compact 102 minutes! Not to mention their script is overly convoluted, which is filled with lots of loopholes and questions that might frustrate a lot of impatient viewers throughout the movie. Then there’s Kwong Chi-Leung’s hyperactive editing which can be annoying at times especially with too many overlapping scenes (particularly during the rapid-fire, dialogue-heavy moments) that seriously demands the viewers to play some catch-ups. The second half, which involves the ICAC investigation between Billy, Lee and Lau as well as the elaborate conspiracy theory, is a serious head-scratcher when viewers tries to connect all the dots together.

Despite all the glaring flaws, COLD WAR remains good enough to watch for. Kudos still goes to Leung and Luk for their ambitious move to present a cop thriller out of the ordinary, even though their executions are somewhat haphazard. As both being a first-timer, their directing efforts are still spotty in places. But it’s hard to deny that Leung and Luk does possess some impressive feats in their overall directions.

The movie is benefited from lush production values and spectacular aerial shots (particularly the way how they framed the angle of skyscrapers), while the overall technical credits are equally top-notch. Except of course, some of the CG here are patchy (particularly in the climactic scene involving fireworks on the roof of a tall building). Peter Kam’s music score is frequently intense throughout the movie.

Action scenes are adequate enough, particularly for the exciting shootout/car chase scene at the freeway overpass.

The cast, in the meantime, are rock-solid. Aaron Kwok gives a perfectly restrained performance (thank heaven he’s not overacting like he used to!) as the calm and confident Lau, while Tony Leung Ka-Fai is especially a standout as the no-nonsense Lee who seriously deserves an acting award nomination (His scene involving him and Aaron Kwok barking at each other in the police headquarters, and another one where he coolly outwitted the two young ICAC investigators in the interrogation room, are downright memorable). The rest of the supporting cast are equally great, including Charlie Yeung, Gordon Lam, Aarif Rahman and even the cameo appearance from Andy Lau.

COLD WAR ends with a cliffhanger finale that screams a sequel. If the sequel is really made sometimes in the future, here’s hoping that Longman Leung and Sunny Luk manage to polish their rough-on-the-edges direction and their overstuffed screenplay into a more balanced approach. As for now, COLD WAR stands as one of the best Hong Kong movies of the year.

it’s a roller coaster ride , alright .. smirk *
All the way from the beginning of the film up to the point of the taking over of power from the 2 brass cops were fairly well done. Then the movie tries to get smart. Too smart.

*spoilers ahead*

The story is about an incident that triggers an internal power struggle between the .. shall we say… brains and bronze side of the HK police force. So that’s setup, very fast pace, so fast that in the opening credit they distinctively shows you an org chart dividing left and right to make sure you see the split.

Then the story twists into who is the behind it all and the resolution. But there are so many holes to this story it isn’t funny. And the open ending asks for an sequel is pitiful.

Holes: – the commish can’t be reach in such an emergency? really? – how did the plotter know Aaron will override the case? – if they want to kill Aaron on the highway why bother with the plot? – if they have the guts to kill head of Treasury with car bomb, why not kill Aaron in the process as well? – why did Albert (a top brass himself) goes up with 1 hand gun, to the roof when there’s a SDU gun fight with explosive ? – if Aaron don’t want to blow this up, why all the cops near the end to capture the son?

Man, the rooftop explosive sequence is sooooooooooooo unnecessary and badly filmed and choreography that it took me right out of the movie.

It is more logical Albert is the devil behind the scene. Save him for the sequel for a second attack or revisit the

Sigh. Maybe 2 more draft of the script.

Other Information:

Original Language cn
Runtime 1 hr 42 min (102 min), 2 hr 6 min (126 min) (Taipei Golden Horse) (Taiwan)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Action, Crime, Mystery
Director Lok Man Leung, Kim-Ching Luk
Writer Lok Man Leung, Kim-Ching Luk
Actors Aaron Kwok, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Charlie Yeung
Country N/A
Awards 14 wins & 20 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Red Epic, Zeiss Ultra Prime and Angenieux Optimo Lenses, Red One MX, Zeiss Ultra Prime and Angenieux Optimo Lenses
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format Redcode RAW
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Redcode RAW (4.5K) (5K) (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic), D-Cinema