Running Out of Time 2

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Disappointing but not disastrous by any means.......2006-09-01

It was inevitable that after setting the benchmark so high with the first film that Running Out of Time 2 would be a disappointment, and it is, though it's still an above average Hong Kong thriller. Once again it's a game of cat and mouse rather than a collection of action scenes, but this time round new writers Kin Yee Au and Nai-Hoi Yau give Ching Wan Lau much less to work with and the film seriously suffers from the lack of genuine emotional involvement of the original. It's almost a film of incidental pleasures - a couple of playful nods to the original in rooftop and taxi scenes, a nice part for Johnnie To regular Lam Suet as a phenomenally unlucky compulsive gambler, a chase that drags on so long both pursuer and pursued stop for a drink of water and an ice cream and one terrific twist over the location of a ransom drop that the film is never able to top. It also has the best CGI effects I've ever seen in a Hong Kong film, with some remarkably well-integrated shots of an eagle flying through the streets of Hong Kong. But Ekin Cheung's mastermind just isn't interesting enough and the ending is too far fetched to work.

Dias Contados (Running Out Of Time) [PAL/REGION 2 DVD. Import-Spain]

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Dias Contados (Running Out Of Time) [PAL/REGION 2 DVD. Import-Spain]
Director: Imanol Uribe
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a running around going nowhere big fuzz
Better than the first!

Running Out of Time 2
Starring: Ching Wan Lau , Ekin Cheng , Kelly Lin , Shiu Hung Hui , and Suet Lam
Director: Wing-cheong Law , and Johnny To
Manufacturer: Mei Ah Laser Disc Co., Ltd.
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ASIN: B000067J0S
Release Date: 2002-06-25

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a running around going nowhere big fuzz.......2007-06-21

this hongkong running around police vs caper movie was nothing but a fantasy hongkong style. branded with a computerized american bald eagle flying around high or low among skyscrapers or back alleys of hongkong added some more weird cgi special effects magic to achieve visual images just for pointless purpose. cops running around like jerks, cliched with a joker-like high ranking officer, a die-hard workaholic detective, a thief/blackmailer double copycatting from those batman series characters, wasted billion hongkong dollars to buy candies for the 3rd world poor kids. what a laugh and a joke.
hongkong movies sometimes overdid something out of nothing, just used rich investors' money to create some unrealistic garbage to the public, but one thing is always good, these moronic, totally pointless hollow movies also created more jobs for the hongkong movie industries. nothing worth recommending for a movie threw a big caper involving so many people running around in hongkong, then just ended with a 'merry x'mas' message. a big nothing as always.

Better than the first!.......2002-09-15

Ekin Chen stars as the Mysterious criminal Ken, a `Robin Hood' style villain, with the talents of a magician, who robs from the rich and gives to the poor. When a hostage situation breaks out, Inspector Ho (Lau Ching Wan), is once more called upon to track down the villain.

Ekin did a wonderful job as Ken. He is handsome and charismatic, and fully believable as a magician and a criminal mastermind. Wan, is great as the much beleaguered and put upon Inspector Ho.

I liked this sequel much more than the original movie. Ekin did a great job of acting, and Hong Kong at Christmas was simply beautiful.

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Dying Wah has nothing to be afraid of anymore when he realizes that he has only 4 weeks to live, and he's determined to get revenge for his father. Later, when Wah successfully gets away in a robbery, detective San makes up his mind and chases after Wah and arrests him. But, we can only have one winner in a game, who's gonna win?

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Running Out of Time 2
Starring: Lau Ching-Wan , Ekin Cheng , Hui Shiu-hung , Ruby Wong , and Lam Suet
Director: Johnny To , and Law Wing-cheung
Manufacturer: Import [Generic]
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ASIN: B00008G6FY
Release Date: 2002-05-21

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