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Based on 7 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Action | Crime | Drama | Foreign
Written by:
Hing-Ka Chan
Tin-Shing Yip
Directed by: Johnny To
Release Date:
Theatrical: January 27, 2006
DVD: March 7, 2006
Running Time: 90 minutes, Color
Origin: Hong Kong / China
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Kelly Chen, Nick Cheung, Siu-Fai Cheung, Shiu Hung Hui, Suet Lam, Richie Ren, Maggie Siu, Simon Yam, and Yong You
In this fast-moving action drama, a highly televised police bust of a Hong Kong bank heist end with the criminals getting away and a lot of cops getting killed. In an effort to save face with the public, the police arrange to broadcast the pursuit and capture of the crooks. However, things get more complicated when the bank robbers contact the media with their own version of events. (Palm Pictures)
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What The Critics Said
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The Onion (A.V. Club) Noel Murray
The movie is one of To's typically tangled meditations on the smearing of good and evil, in moments where instinct overcomes morality. And ultimately, To cares less about the motivations of opposing forces than about the spectacular collisions they produce.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle G. Allen Johnson
It takes just the first shot to get sucked into Breaking News, the latest bit of destruction from mayhem master Johnnie To, and it's a doozy.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck
Prolific Hong Kong lenser Johnnie To delivers another solid action picture with this latest effort, a cops and robbers yarn with social commentary mixed in along the way.
Read Full Review >Variety Derek Elley
An interesting idea comes over only half-formed in Johnnie To's Breaking News, an effective Hong Kong crimer that partly returns to the realistic style of some of his late '90s dramas, but never properly knits its theme of media manipulation into pic's punchy thriller format.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Manohla Dargis
It's a slam-dunk of an opener in a film filled with terrifically choreographed action and very little on its mind.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Ed Halter
Well executed but ultimately unsatisfying, Breaking News centers its cops-and-robbers plot around a clever meta-media twist that nevertheless fails to transcend gimmickry.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 10.0 (out of 10) based on 1 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
David G. gave it a10:
Such an awesme film - truly a present day "Dog Day Afternoon". Rent it, buy it!
