Eye in the Sky (film)


Eye in the Sky simplified Chinese traditional Chinese , Literally Tracing is a 2007 Hong Kong crime film starring Simon Yam, Tony Leung Kafai and Miss Hong Kong pageant winner Kate Tsui in her film debut. Yam and Tsui play surveillance operatives on the trail of a gang of professional robbers led by Chan ChongShan Leung. The title is derived from the casino surveillance tech eye in the sky. It marks the directorial debut of Yau Naihoi, a longtime screenwriter for films directed by Johnnie To, who coproduced the film with his production company Milkyway Image. Eye in the Sky premiered as an Official Selection at the 2007 Berlin International Film Festival, and as an Opening Film at the Hong Kong International Film Festival. It was released in Hong Kong onJune 2007.

Fatman Lam Suet is identified and tracked without his knowledge through a combination of tails, surveillance footage, and datamining, including accessing his Octopus card. The force ambush is established at the scene of the next robbery, but the elusive Hollow Man Tony Leung Kafai notices the police. As the robbers flee, some are killed by a Police Tactical Unit, but the rest escape. Chan kills an uniformed police officer as he flees, and Piggy stops to give first aid rather than continue the pursuit.The surveillance unit is then called to another case a kidnapping. Piggy is staking out a phone booth where the kidnapper may make a call, when she sees Hollow Man go by. She recognises the kidnapper from Fatmans apartment building and allows the police to rescue the kidnap victim, while she pursues Hollow Man. After a tense confrontation in a cafe, where Hollow Man confronts her, she escapes suspicion, but Hollow Man notices Sergeant Wong and stabs him in the neck with a pair of scissors. Wong convinces Piggy to continue to follow Hollow Man as he slowly bleeds to death. ........

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