Breaking News Page #2

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
445 Views


Be careful, everyone

Any question?

No, sir

ETD 5 minutes

Yes, sir

Get down

Go

Police. Freeze

Get down

Get down

Get down

What's the situation?

Stay down

Suspect sighted.

Guard the entrance. Inform your boss

Yes, sir

Yuen, the cops are here

Meet us on the 8th floor

Got it

Split

OK:

The criminals just crossed fire with CID

What the hell are you doing?

Madam, we just ran into the suspects

We'll form a cordon until you arrive

Cheung

Are you here yet?

I just got to the 8th floor

Is it you, Yuen?

Stay where you are

Let's split up

Xin will join you and Chung's following me

Stay in touch and look out for each other

Escape when you have the chance

We'll meet up once we're out of here

OK:

Let's go

What's going on?

Did we leak our whereabouts?

Put away the gun. Let's run

Everyone alright? Answer me

Hoi, you're OK?

I'm fine

The bastards haven't cleared out yet

Cheung, It's Rebecca. Are you OK?

There was a 'minor' explosion on the 9th floor.

No officer was harmed

Stay away, police

Stay inside

Police found out the bandits' hide out

and surrounded the building

An explosion broke out on the 9th floor

The police has not yet issued any statement

We'll bring you the latest developments

Madam, Sir

All our forces are geared up for action

The monitors above will detect everything

Including wireless communication

Suspects may use walkie-talkies

Yes, madam

Tell PTU to prepare a cordon

and evacuate residents

Prepare cordon

Heard what I said? Want me to repeat it?

Yes, sir

I got it, sir

Yes, sir. Thank you, sir

What is it?

What is it? Tell me

It's nothing.

We're just taking you to a safe place

A large deployment of police

and PTU squadron has entered the building

Police cars and a fire engine are standing by

Madam

Sir, this is Grace, CI from PPRB

Superintendent Yeung from CSP

Morning, sir

What's the media turnout?

Around 80 reporters in total

I've drafted some points for the press release

OK:

You can have it in 10 minutes

What about image of our grand arrival?

The photos are ready

The coolest ones

are being digitally retouched

I also got a movie director to edit the footage

Then we'll add music and sound effects

It'll deliver the punch!

Good! Hurry up and give it to the media

Yes, madam

Tell the media...

I'll feed them news every half-hour

Yes, madam

From the footage released by the police

we can see forces setting out on their mission

A black-out

It must be the police

Let's take the stairs

Police, Danger, Evacuate immediately

Take your wallets and ID cards

I'll notify residents on the 10th floor

I'll notify residents on the 10th floor

PTU is onto it

Come down with your men

But I think the suspects, Now

Yes, madam

Check every residential unit.

Make an orderly evacuation

Yes, sir

Dad, the cops told us to stay inside

I've lived long enough to know cops are idiots

Hurry up. There's nobody out there

Why don't you listen to the police?

You're cops?

Cops don't point a gun at a civilian's head

The boy's smarter than his dad

My girl

Don't kill my daughter! She's Christian

What's that got to do with it?

I dunno. I'm just talking off my head

My girl. Sister

Next time, I won't punch the pillow

We wouldn't wind up

like this if it weren't for you

Hey, show your old man some respect

We don't want to hurt anyone

We just need to take refuge here for a while

How can I cooperate with you?

Turn on the TV, watch the breaking news

Don't move around

Chung, put away your gun

Police has begun to evacuate the residents

Let's check other news

You must evacuate the building

Bring your ID cards and follow me

How do you rate the police evacuation?

Excellent

They arrived within 15 minutes

and followed the right procedures

Were you scared?

Not at all. The police were by our side

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

The feedback is so far so good

The media is so keen to know

how things are in there

We need to show them some new stuff

Rebecca will arrange that

We got great footage of officers

combating suspects

You have my word for it.

THIS IS A GREAT SHOW

I'll be glued to the TV

Good-bye. Sir

They blew PTU to bits.

How can we broadcast this?

We've fixed it on the editing table

We'll only show officers firing at the suspects

and forcing them into an apartment

That's all

Will you say something to the press?

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