Chow Yun-Fat Holds The Biggest Cards In The New Trailer For THE MAN FROM MACAU
The new trailer is online for writer and director Wong Jing‘s latest action comedy, The Man From Macau. Newly retitled from its previous name, From Vegas To Macau, the film sees actor Chow Yun-Fat returning to familiar territory with an old character from the classic God Of Gamblers film franchise that began in 1989 with Wong at the helm.
The Man From Macau is produced by Andrew Lau and Dong Yu, and also stars Nicholas Tse, Chapman To, Annie Wu, Jing Tian, Kimmy Tong, Benz Hui, Max Zhang, Philip Ng, Sammy Sum and Natalie Meng. The film currently has multi-territorial acquisition since its appearance at the American Film Market and will make its domestic premiere on January 30, 2014 on the eve of the Chinese New Year, competing on the same weekend with Chow’s other long awaited film, The Monkey King, with action star Donnie Yen.
Super Hacker “Show Hand” (Nicholas TSE) and Karl (Chapman TO) went to Las Vegas with their mentor, the retired swindler, Benz. They were there to visit Benz’s old buddy Hendrick (CHOW Yun Fat), a renowned master-level conman who left behind his troubled past to work as a Security Consultant for a casino.
Nobody had managed to cheat in his casino under Hendrick’s watchful eyes. Looking forward to his retirement, Hendrick invited Benz over to Las Vegas for a farewell bash.
During their stay in Vegas, Show Hand bumped into his good friend Ken. The two met and trained together in the Police Academy. Ken had recently joined a mysterious hedge fund group and was on a business trip with his boss Chairman Ko, the mastermind laundering money for corrupt officials and triad members in Asia. His ultimate plan was to cause a plummet in the New York Stock Exchange. Unbeknownst to Show Hand, Ken was an undercover Interpol agent, collaborating with the Mainland police officer, Yan to gather evidence against Mr. Ko. Yan began her investigations in Shanghai and Hong Kong while Ken gained access to Mr. Ko in Vegas. Realising he has a mole in his company, Mr. Ko put a hit on Ken. Ken managed to save the collected evidence in a USB and hide it with Show Hand before his death. The USB was accidentally taken away by Hendrick’s daughter, Charlie who had a crush on Show Hand.
Show Hand made an impression on Hendrick and was invited to go to Macau with him. Meanwhile, Mr. Ko sent a hitman to take back the USB from Show Hand. During the attack, the hitman accidently caused Charlie to fall from a building, she lost her memory in the process with no recollection of the USB she had taken.
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December 12, 2013 @ 11:30 pm
nice trailer, looking forward to it.
feels like The Thieves but with more action.
nice to see Chow Yun Fat, haven't seen him for ages.
nice to see the guy from Invisible Target in this movie