Full Alert (film)

Full Alert
Hong Kong film poster for Full Alert
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Directed byRingo Lam
Screenplay byLau Wing-kin
Ringo Lam
Story byRingo Lam
Produced byLi Kuo-hsing
StarringLau Ching-wan
Francis Ng
Jack Kao
Amanda Lee
CinematographyArdy Lam
Edited byMarco Mak
Angie Lam
Music byPeter Kam
Production
company
Brilliant Idea Group Ltd.
Release date
  • 18 July 1997 (1997-07-18)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguageCantonese
BudgetHK$13,000,000[1]
Box officeHK$14,691,880

Full Alert is a 1997 Hong Kong action film directed and co-written by Ringo Lam. The film's plot is set in 1997 when cops find a corpse and bomb chemicals, Inspector Pao (Lau Ching-wan) arrests suspect Mak Kwan (Francis Ng) hoping that his girlfriend will lead them to his Taiwanese gang, but Mak makes an escape and the girlfriend makes off for Macao. Pao then figures that the gang will go for the $230 million at the Hong Kong Jockey club while Mak plans his escape from prison.

Full Alert was shown at both the Rotterdam Film Festival and Berlin International Film Festival in 1997. It was nominated for five awards at the 17th Hong Kong Film Awards.

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