![]() ![]() ![]() The draw of the film is its huge set-pieces, which easily best recent Hollywood essays in disaster such as Deepwater Horizon. ![]() (CMC Pictures will open the film in China, North America, Australia, New Zealand and the UK.) Anchored by a charismatic turn from Lam’s regular star Eddie Peng as daring rescue chief Gao Qian, it’s a predestined blockbuster in Asian markets and offers enough incredible action/mayhem to pique the interest of connoisseurs of big-screen spectacle elsewhere. Built around spectacular and varied disaster sequences involving a burning oil-rig, a crashed jet-liner and a sinking ship, it also offers finds time for a tangle of soap opera sub-plots, with interludes for comedy, subdued romance and medical emergency. One of the most expensive Chinese movies ever made (at over $90m), Dante Lam’s follow-up to his crowd-pleasing action pictures Operation Mekong and Operation Red Sea is a tribute to the men and women of the Chinese Coast Guard. ![]()
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