The Stool Pigeon (2010)

Original title

綫人

Directed by

Dante Lam

Genre

action film, thriller film, crime thriller film

Country

Hong Kong, People's Republic of China

Runtime

1h 52m

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 58 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A police detective uses confidential informants to catch gangsters. He feels guilty when his informants are caught but still sends a street racer undercover to infiltrate a dangerous criminal's crew.

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What happens

The Stool Pigeon (simplified Chinese: 线人; traditional Chinese: 綫人; pinyin: Xiàn Rén; Jyutping: Sin3 Jan4) is a 2010 action thriller film directed by Dante Lam and starring Nicholas Tse, Nick Cheung and Gwei Lun-mei. A Hong Kong-Chinese co-production, the film is about police detective, Don Lee (Cheung), who uses informants to gain information about gangsters. Lee begins to feel guilty when his informants are caught, but sends out a street racer named Ghost (Tse) as an informant to gain information about a gangster name Barbarian (Lu Yi). The film was released in China on August 24 and two days later in Hong Kong. The film performed well in the Hong Kong box office, though it has received mixed reviews. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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