Three
Description
It’s a non-stop battle between an injured criminal mastermind and several police officers on the post-op ward of a large Hong Kong hospital in Johnnie To’s latest action-packed extravaganza. A police inspector named Chen (Louis Koo, formidable as always) brings a handcuffed robbery suspect (Wallace Chung) with a bullet in his head into Victoria Hospital. With only a six-hour window to operate and a patient unwilling to go under the knife, it’s a relentless countdown to see who will emerge with their lives and brains intact. The third party in this battle of wills is stubborn neurological surgeon Tong Qian (Zhao Wei), seeking to rectify her reputation with a successful surgery. With a tour-de-force shoot out in which the cast simulates slow-motion and a claustrophobic atmosphere that rarely leaves the hospital ward, Three hearkens back to some of To’s classic blood-and-bullets work while also displaying some of the visual tricks he learned on his last film, Office (HKC 2015), which also used a single setting to heighten its story and style.
Trailer
//www.youtube.com/embed/hcCVIUEFgT8Film Details
Language Cantonese
Year 2016
Runtime 88
Country Hong Kong/China
Director Johnnie To
Producer Johnnie To, Yau Nai-hoi
Writer Yau Nai-hoi, Lau Ho-leung, Mak Tin-shu
Editor David Richardson
Cinematographer Cheng Siu-keung
Music Xavier Jamaux
Cast Zhao Wei, Louis Koo, Wallace Chung
Print Source Well Go USA