Running Out Of Time 2 (暗戰2-談判專家) is an 2001 film out of Hong Kong. The movie stars Sean Lau, Ekin Cheng, and Kelly Lin. The film is the sequel to the highly successful first Running Out Of Time starring Andy Lau.
Lau reprises his role as inspector Ho. Called to the rooftop of a building to stop a suicide jump, he's faced with a new thief, played by Ekin. Lin plays Teresa, an insurance mogul on the heals of a massively lucrative deal. Three items under their insurance is stolen recently and held for ransom by the thief. Ho's group suspect Teresa's firm is involved in some sort of money laundering. When the thief extorts Teresa, Ho steps in to catch him. Reluctantly forced to work together, Ho and Teresa cooperate to catch the thief.
This movie shouldn't have been made. Compared to the first one, this seemed like a TV movie. Ekin's constant smiling came off more cheezy than smart or sinister. Andy just did it better in the first one. The feel of the movie also felt very TV movie like. It seemed the camera angles, production sets all seemed cheap and amateurish. Luckily the movie was in the ~90 minute range. Kelly Lin was what saved the movie for me. Still in her mid twenties when the movie was made, I was kept going with waiting for her to show up in future scenes. A very good ploy that kept me engaged to the end of the film.
Unlike the first film, I don't get the running out of time concept for Ekin as there was no terminal illness. Only that some deal was going to be influenced by X time. Which in comparison to the main protagonist death, seem very insignificant.
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