Hong Kong is often considered one of the world’s most technologically advanced cities (partly due to its surveillance capabilities), so a hacker thriller set there starring Aaron Kwok (郭富城) seemed promising. I shouldn’t have been so naïve as to think that a mere setting could work any alchemy.
Kwok plays Cheuk Ka-chun, the brightest star at a cybersecurity firm specializing in banks. Far be it from me to tell someone how to run a bank (I couldn’t top Bertolt Brecht’s advice if I tried), but if my security firm’s clients suffered total system failures at a rate of two per year, I’d switch to a different firm.
