Synopsis
Beast Stalker (證人, 2008) is a Hong Kong crime thriller from director Dante Lam you can watch online on iFILM. During a high-speed chase after a robber, Sergeant Tong accidentally kills a little girl. One second wrecks everything.
Guilt follows him everywhere. He starts shadowing Ling, the dead girl's twin sister, lingering near her school. Then she is snatched too. The prosecutor handling the case of the criminal Tong caught turns out to be the mother of both girls, and the gang squeezes her through the child. Tong witnesses the kidnapping by chance and chases the kidnapper down. Nicholas Tse plays the cop; Nick Cheung plays the abductor as a battered, cornered man you almost pity.
Lam isn't really filming a manhunt. He's filming the weight of guilt that drives a person to something desperate. The car crash that opens the movie is one of the most brutal, precisely staged set pieces in late-2000s Hong Kong action. The role won Nick Cheung Best Actor at the Golden Horse Awards. Stream Beast Stalker (2008) online on iFILM.
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