Overheard (film)


Overheard traditional Chinese simplified Chinese pinyin Qie Ting Feng Yun Cantonese Yale Sit Teng Fung Wan is a 2009 Hong Kong crime thriller film written and directed by Alan Mak and Felix Chong, and produced by Henry Fong and Derek Yee. The film stars Lau Chingwan, Louis Koo and Daniel Wu as a trio of police officers conducting surveillance on a public company. The film was released theatrically in Hong Kong onJuly 2009. The sequel, Overheard 2, was released in 2011.

One night, while monitoring a conversation between the companys manager and his secretary, Yeung and Lam overhear that the stock price will surge on market opening the next day. Seeing an opportunity, Yeung asks Lam to delete the portion of the recording so he can take advantage of it. The next day, Lam opens an account at a stock brokerage house but is discovered by Leung. However, Lam has already invested in the stock on a deep loan. The stock rises quickly, but before the trio manages to sell it, trading is suspended due to unusual trading activity.Back in the operation center, the three of them overhear a plot to murder the manager over a listening device planted unofficially. To report the intelligence would lead them to suspicion and ruin their future, and Lam begs Leung not to report it. Having thought about it, Leung decides instead to stop the murder themselves. They ambush the murderer as he forcefeeds the unconscious manager with pills to fake a death scene. Leungs face, however, is briefly seen by the managers girlfriend. Seeing him again along with Yeung and Lam at the station after selling their shares worthmillion, she calls the Bosss men, allowing him to track them down, seek retribution, and organise the deaths of Leung, Lam, Yeung, and their families. Because of Leungs compassion for his subordinates mistakes and unwillingness to turn them in and seek help from the rest of the police force, he is unable to stop their unnecessary deaths. Faced with guilt, Leung turns himself in to the Bosss henchmen, and the Bosss subordinate, Wah, seemingly executes Leung in an unmarked grave, watched by the Boss. ........

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