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Synopsis: Shaw is an operative for the United Nations' covert dirty-tricks squad, using espionage and quasi-ethical tactics to secure peace and cooperation. When a shipping container full of dead Vietnamese refugees turns up on the docks and China's ambassador is gunned down at a dinner celebrating a new trade agreement with China and the US, Shaw is framed for the murder and must evade the FBI and Triad gangsters to find out what is really going on.
Director(s): Christian Duguay
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  2 wins & 9 nominations.
 
IMDB:
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Year:
2000
117 min
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A nurse will be with you in a minute

to finish.

Thank you.

It's a good thing I'm an a**hole...

...otherwise, I'd feel guilty.

You should.

How is it?

Oh he did a nice job.

Those people make good doctors.

What?

Asians. Chinese.

You know, they're smart and well-educated.

And what about these people?

These people have got to stop getting

shot on the job.

I can arrange that.

Well, you're too young to retire, so...

Yeah, I'm young, but I ain't dumb.

Don't that burn?

Yes.

-Frank.

-What you got?

F***ing thing came off

a Chinese freighter yesterday.

The longshoremen didn't think much of it.

Until the sun came up.

Sh*t.

Our... forensic guy here picked this up.

Oh, I- I don't speak that language,

so I wouldn't know what that means.

Translator says it's Vietnamese.

Talks about the UN moving them

from some refugee camp in Hong Kong...

-...looking for a new life in America.

-Hong Kong refugees. Ray!

Call Amnesty. See if they can trace these

to the ones that disappeared last month.

Yeah, sure, chief.

Thanks.

That's quite a statement,

if that's what they wanted to make. Guys!

Think it has something to do

with the big Chinese conference in town?

Under UN, the supervision.

"The fact remains that although these

refugees were housed in Hong Kong...

"...they were under the supervision

of UN officers."

Sweatshop.

"You talk of human rights.

"Three miles from here, sweatshops.

"A mile from here,

homeless people living in doorways.

"Yet you lecture my country...

"...on our human rights record.

-"The only right that concerns me--"

-Chinese Ambassador Jian Tze Wu.

In two days,

China signs a UN trade agreement...

...ending 50 years of isolation,

not only culturally, but commercially...

...opening the door

to 1.5 billion new consumers.

And you think Ambassador Wu is connected

to the dead refugees from the boat?

I have my suspicions.

Before becoming UN Ambassador, he was

responsible for refugee resettlement.

Here he is meeting with a group of

gentlemen tied to various Triad concerns.

Hmm... human smugglers. Slave traders.

Exactly.

My instinct tells me

something is lurking under the surface.

You always think something's lurking

under the surface.

Tonight, David Chan is hosting

a banquet honoring Ambassador Wu.

You want me to put a wire on Wu.

If you're ready. How's the shoulder?

Technically? F***ed up!

There she is. Eleanor!

Here.

I've been looking for you everywhere.

I don't believe we've met.

We still haven't, sir.

Yes, of course.

Would you excuse us, please?

We've been watching the Security Council.

He was going nuts in there.

Yes, I saw.

Are you gonna do something about it?

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