Former cop-turned-bar owner Kwok and his underachieving half-brother befriends a drunken woman, they soon find themselves targeted by both her former lover, a high-powered attorney, and the gangster he employs. A suitcase full of tainted cash enters the picture as Kwok finds himself torn between the gangsters and his former colleagues.
Direction
Lam's first film since 2007 — he didn't soften with age.
Cinematography
Hong Kong as drowning city, all rain and fluorescent rot.
Acting
Louis Koo's thousand-yard stare of a man who's seen too much.
Director
Ringo Lam Ling-Tung
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lam came out of retirement specifically for this, his final film before his death in 2023. He reportedly turned down bigger budgets to maintain creative control.
The title 迷城 ('Lost City') deliberately echoes Lam's own City on Fire and Full Alert — this is him closing a thematic trilogy three decades later, now with the exhaustion of age.
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