Three

Name: Three
Director: Johnnie To
Genre: Thriller, Action, Crime/detective
Released: 2016
Duration: 1 h 28 min
Cast: Zhao Wei, Louis Koo, Wallace Chung, Lo Hoi-pang, Lam Suet

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Thriller
Action

2016
Johnnie To
88 mins
15

Summary

When a police sting goes bad, a master criminal makes a desperate choice when he forces the cops to shoot him. Once there, he refuses treatment, instead waiting for his cohorts to break him out. Caught between an obsessed cop and the troubled surgeon assigned to save his life, the hospital is now a taught-and-tense situation that could turn into a bloody battleground at any moment

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Review

A star rating of 3 out of 5.

Jamie Healy

Like a particularly gripping episode of Casualty, director Johnnie To's crime thriller plays out in the wards and waiting areas of an average hospital. The trio at the heart of the plot comprises an overworked female neurosurgeon (Zhao Wei), a police detective (Louis Koo) and the criminal in his custody (Wallace Chung), who has a bullet lodged in his brain. Despite his precarious physical condition, Chung delights in goading his cop captor, not least because it was during police questioning that he was shot. Other murky moral choices are made during To's slow-burn offering, which bides its time detailing the various life-and-death dramas of the other patients, before erupting in a slo-mo action set piece that's worth the price of admission alone. That one instance of shameless showboating aside, the director keeps a tight rein on proceedings, with Zhao making the biggest impression as a dedicated but believably flawed medic.

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5.9/10