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Hong Kong police are hunting a counterfeiting gang led by a mastermind code-named "Painter". In order to crack this true identity, the police recruit gang member Lee Man to unmask "Painter's" secret identity.

Year

2018

Duration

2h 10m

IMDb

6.8

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Cast

Felix Chong

Director

Chow Yun-Fat

Painter

Aaron Kwok

Lee Man

Cast

Felix Chong

Director

Chow Yun-Fat

Painter

Aaron Kwok

Lee Man

Jingchu Zhang

Yuen Man

Catherine Chau

Inspector Ho

Wenjuan Feng

Sau Ching

David Yao-Qing Wang

Lee Wing Chit

Kai-Chi Liu

Uncle Shing

JB

Joanne Brandon

Gallery Patron

MC

Mandy Chung

CIB team member

Alex Fong

Captain Ho

Jack Kao

Thai General

AK

Andrew Kucharski

Auctioneer

DM

Dmitry Mazur

Auction Bidder

Phillip Mitchell

Superintendent

Carl Ng

Lok Man

Felix Chong

Writer

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Comments

10 Comments

Bissam BasbosaMar 22, 2026

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El MonatjaMar 29, 2023

Brilliant acting from lead actors couples with John Woo styles action makes this a personal action movie favourite of 2018. Long live Gun-fu

Marie.J🙏🤞Mar 29, 2023

It's reallt good. It's been awhile Hong Kong . Played with your mind that you had to rewatch it again . Interesting from beginning till end.

Lidya Kedir Mar 29, 2023

Not being prejudiced but since I don't know many of good Chinese movies this one is for once a good action movie with an excellent cast. The story might be déjà-vu but nonetheless it's an entertaining movie with a fair amount of twists and turns, some good action scenes, and for a movie of this length never boring moments. In China they counterfeit about anything they want and watching them counterfeiting the American dollar is an interesting story to watch. Chow Yen Fa is the most famous actor of the cast, at least to us occidentals, but the rest of the cast did also a good job with their characters. For once a Hong Kong production that felt right, without any overacting like we're sometimes used to when it's an Asian movie.

nabill_officielMar 29, 2023

Poor acting from westerner actors. Unrealistic fight scenes, good story and emotional touch though

Lucky ManzanoMar 29, 2023

Average remake of the Usual Suspects, with a shoehorned and unconvincing "moral" ending to show that bad guys never prosper.

Kwadwo SheldonMar 29, 2023

No one can deny how Chou is important in HK movie in 80s. You cannot imagine that he is actually an unimportant role in the whole story :) It is not that kind of traditional police and gangster movie with only boom and block buster. The process of counterfeiting cash is also new to audience, at least to me! The mystery of "painter" is well worth discovering as the plots goes on. It is not simply about split personality as the usual movies, which is unable to finish a complete story without it. The ending matches "counterfeit" pretty well, given 90% of movies is talking about how they successfully cheat and hide. The idea of the story is awesome! However, 2 points are deducted for ending. Don't know if it is for the reason to be on publicly for all audience. The final explosion seems unnecessary. This movie still gives us hope as Infernal Affairs: HK movie is not dying. Looking forward to the sequel! (I believe there will be)

sMar 29, 2023

Definitely one of the most enjoyable Cantonese Movie I ever watch for the past few years! Strongly recommended to anyone