Synopsis
Breaking News (2004) is a Hong Kong crime thriller from Johnnie To that you can watch online on iFILM. It opens with a botched shootout that a passing reporter happens to catch on camera.
The footage — a cop begging the robbers not to shoot — plays on every screen and humiliates the force. To save face, the brass stages a spectacle: officers wired with mini-cameras storm an apartment block live on air, while viewers at home follow the siege like a reality show. The robbers, naturally, are watching the news too.
The film opens on a seven-minute gunfight shot in one unbroken take, a Milkyway Image signature. Kelly Chen, Nick Cheung, Richie Jen and Simon Yam lead the cast. To bends the action movie into a sharp satire about cops and criminals fighting over who controls the picture. It screened at Cannes. Stream Breaking News online on iFILM.
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