Beast Stalker
New York Asian Film Festival 2018
June 29 - July 15, 2018
This gritty, tightly knit thriller boasts intense action scenes and was a career turning point for action maestro Dante Lam and is a modern classic of Hong Kong cinema.
10th Anniversary Screening! Director Dante Lam will be in attendance
Guilt-ridden after a high-speed car chase leaves a girl dead, a determined police sergeant finds redemption by pursuing the crime boss who triggered the accident. This gritty, tightly knit thriller boasts intense action scenes within its depiction of a fatalistic cycle of crime, coincidence, and consequence that binds together the perpetrators and victims. Nicholas Tse faces off against Nick Cheung, whose turn as a relentless kidnapper earned him multiple awards. A career turning point for action maestro Dante Lam (Operation Red Sea), it is a modern classic of Hong Kong cinema.
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