Dai si gin

Name: Dai si gin
Genre: Action, Drama, Crime
Released: January 27, 2006
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 63

2006

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Palm Pictures | Release Date: January 27, 2006

Summary: In this fast-moving action drama, a highly televised police bust of a Hong Kong bank heist end with the criminals getting away and a lot of cops getting killed. In an effort to save face with the public, the police arrange to broadcast the pursuit and capture of the crooks. However, things get more complicated when the bank robbers contactIn this fast-moving action drama, a highly televised police bust of a Hong Kong bank heist end with the criminals getting away and a lot of cops getting killed. In an effort to save face with the public, the police arrange to broadcast the pursuit and capture of the crooks. However, things get more complicated when the bank robbers contact the media with their own version of events. (Palm Pictures)… Expand

Director: Johnnie To

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Crime

Runtime: 90 min

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G. Allen Johnson

It takes just the first shot to get sucked into Breaking News, the latest bit of destruction from mayhem master Johnnie To, and it's a doozy. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

Taut, cynical thriller. Read full review

Noel Murray

The movie is one of To's typically tangled meditations on the smearing of good and evil, in moments where instinct overcomes morality. And ultimately, To cares less about the motivations of opposing forces than about the spectacular collisions they produce. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Prolific Hong Kong lenser Johnnie To delivers another solid action picture with this latest effort, a cops and robbers yarn with social commentary mixed in along the way. Read full review

Derek Elley

An interesting idea comes over only half-formed in Johnnie To's Breaking News, an effective Hong Kong crimer that partly returns to the realistic style of some of his late '90s dramas, but never properly knits its theme of media manipulation into pic's punchy thriller format. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

It's a slam-dunk of an opener in a film filled with terrifically choreographed action and very little on its mind. Read full review

Ed Halter

Well executed but ultimately unsatisfying, Breaking News centers its cops-and-robbers plot around a clever meta-media twist that nevertheless fails to transcend gimmickry. Read full review

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DavidG.

Feb 1, 2006

Such an awesme film - truly a present day "Dog Day Afternoon". Rent it, buy it!

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