Breaking News Page #4

Synopsis: When an ambulatory TV news unit live broadcasts the embarrassing defeat of a police battalion by five bank robbers in a ballistic showdown, the credibility of the police force drops to a nadir. While on a separate investigation in a run-down building, detective Cheung discovers the hideout of the robbers. Cheung and his men have also entered the building, getting ready to take their foes out any minute. Meanwhile, in order to beat the media at its own game, Inspector Rebecca decides to turn the stakeout into a breaking news show.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Johnnie To
Production: Palm Pictures
  5 wins & 8 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Metacritic:
63
Rotten Tomatoes:
78%
TV-14
Year:
2004
90 min
Website
431 Views


Were they courteous?

The residents are evacuating orderly

They were mostly from the 1st and 2nd floors

Sources indicate

police are bugging the suspects

There're 4 of them, split into pairs

We'll bring you the latest news

Now back to the newsroom

Take it easy. There's no rush

Take them down

Didn't you hear the news?

Stay indoors and wait for police evacuation

What? I'm dumping the garbage

Boss, he has hearing problems

Seen anyone walk pass?

Haven't seen Annie for a while

Ask him where he lives and take him home

Boss, but we had an order from madam

Where do you live, sir?

Madam, the PTU Commander reports back

The gunshot came from the 9th floor

Shall we ask PTU to go up and take a look?

Cheung

Madam? We had a face off

with 2 suspects on the 9th floor

Didn't you hear me? Must I repeat myself?

Take residents down the middle stairway

Now. We're almost there

Let's talk after this

Call Cheung's boss. Let him get his ass fried

Now?

Sorry, sir

You asked if we need to tell PTU to go up?

No need

Yes, madam

Command post out to PTU. Stay put

Continue evacuating 7th floor residents

Two targets on ninth floor

Yuen, we clashed with the cops

on the 9th floor

Don't use our walkie-talkies. It's not safe

Remember this number.

Switch SIM cards from time to time

We're in 8E

Stay in touch and find an escape route

Sure

I think they turned off their walkie-talkies

So what

How about the mobile network?

But there're many networks

Each base station handles

multiple phone lines

And they are digital

What's your point?

Best we can do is to find out

which numbers are in use

To pin them down, we need their passwords

Bring me 2 coffees

Yes, madam

We want all numbers

coming out of this building

from the last time

they used their walkie-talkies

Tell Intel to stay on this

Yes, madam

But there're loads of calls

Of course. Just deploy more staff

Ever watched a telethon?

There're lots of hotlines

Yes, sir

Answer the call

Answer it

Hello?

What's taking you so long?

It's Aunt Jenny

I just saw your home on TV

Are the kids OK?

None of your bloody business

I've tried my best to cooperate

Good

Stand right there

Stay where you are

All freeze

Get down

Yuen, it's Long

Get inside

Move

Tell PTU to seal off the 8th floor completely

All tenants must stay in their apartments

Yes, sir

Check out all the residents on that floor

I want an exact head count

Yes, madam

Four targets on eighth floor

Another two upstairs

Yuen, we rescued the wrong guy

It's all their fault. They dragged us into this sh*t

Chung

Superintendent,

Assistant Commissioner is on the phone

Patch him through

CK, it's Eric here

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