Hong Kong, Oct 2013. Following a long period of social unrest over bank failures, property speculation and government mismanagement, crowds gather to demonstrate in front of the Legislative Council building. Panic ensues as a bomb is reported inside the LegCo building, planted by someone calling himself "Skywalker". Meanwhile, a branch of Hong Kong & China Banking Corporation is held up by two young people in masks - chemistry student Lang (Kelvin Kwan) and social drop-out Fish (Fish Liew). Among the people in the bank are disillusioned former teacher Yue Chung-tak (Teddy Robin), councilman Ho Chung-lai (K.K. Cheung), his mistress Rebecca (Maggie Chan), the bank's investment saleswoman Luk Wan-yee (Kay Tse), her philandering boyfriend Victor Lo (Wilfred Lau), and Wan-yee's onetime boyfriend, police detective Kin-ho (Paul Wong). All have their own reasons for being in the bank that day.
Acting
Teddy Robin's weary fire — a whole life in one robbery.
Direction
Ho Hong squeezes maximum tension from locked locations.
Writing
Every hostage has a reason to hate the system.
Director
Ho Hong
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released weeks after the 2013 Hong Kong dockworkers' strike, the film channels real tensions around property speculation and generational wealth gaps that would explode in the 2014 Umbrella Movement.
Director Ho Hong worked in television news before film — the 'Skywalker' subplot's fragmented, rumor-driven panic mirrors how Hong Kongers actually experienced crisis information.
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