To recover and ancient scroll, a Chinese agent battles the Japanese yakuza and British mercenaries.
Costume
Andy Lau's inexplicable wardrobe changes mid-heist
Practical Effects
Dubai car chase actually filmed on location
Production
Three countries' worth of sets, one movie's budget
Director
Sun Jianjun
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot partially in Dubai with government cooperation, making it one of the first Chinese blockbusters with Middle East location shoots.
The 'scroll repatriation' plot mirrors real 2010s tensions over Chinese artifacts in Western museums—state-funded nationalism dressed as heist fun.
HK
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