Trivisa

Trivisa (樹大招風, 2016) is a Hong Kong crime drama you can watch online on iFILM. It's the summer of 1997, weeks before the city returns to China. Three of Hong Kong's most wanted criminals have never met and are barely recognized in public. Then a rumor starts to spread: they're teaming up.

The rumor alone is enough to rattle all three. A bank robber senses the old rules are about to collapse along with the colony and races to land one final score. Another tries to go legitimate and watches his instincts dull. The third hunts for an alliance that may not even exist. The three threads run side by side, rarely touching, each tracing a man who failed to adapt before the world changed under him.

Three directors share the credit — Frank Hui, Jevons Au and Vicky Wong — working under producer Johnnie To. At the Hong Kong Film Awards it swept the top prizes, including Best Film. It's tense, mean, end-of-an-era filmmaking, and it lands for fans of classic Hong Kong crime cinema and anyone after a gangster film with no heroes in it. Stream Trivisa (2016) online on iFILM.