'The Vigil': To Believe or Not to Believe?
If you mix religious rituals with dark mythology, the result will be effective, and the story powerful in 90% of the cases. That is exactly what happens at the beginning of The Vigil.
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Billionaire Law and his accomplices are conspiring the murder of a judge. The conspiracy is overheard by a inspector from ICAC who records the meeting on a cassette tape. Billionaire Law is determined to pin him down. Before he dies, he hides the tape in a reporter Mel's car. A young man, Law Kim Long, smuggles into Hong Kong to look for his father. The Snake-head is mistaken him to be Billionaire Law's son, so he makes him groomed.
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Billionaire Law and his accomplices are conspiring the murder of a judge. The conspiracy is overheard by a inspector from ICAC who records the meeting on a cassette tape. Billionaire Law is determined to pin him down. Before he dies, he hides the tape in a reporter Mel's car. A young man, Law Kim Long, smuggles into Hong Kong to look for his father. The Snake-head is mistaken him to be Billionaire Law's son, so he makes him groomed.
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Genre:Comedy, Crime
Written By:Clifton Ko Chi-Sum, Raymond Wong Pak-Ming
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Runtime:95 minutes
Studio:Cinema City Company Limited
Cast
Lau Kar-Wing
Director
Alan Tam
Elflynn Lo
Olivia Cheng Man-Nga
Mildred
Eric Tsang Chi-wai
Yu Ming
David Chiang Da-wei
Detective
Wong Ching
Billion Lo
Elaine Jin Yan-Ling
Billion's killer
Lee Hoi-Sang
Billion's thug
Hon Kwok-choi
Billion's thug
Raymond Wong Pak-Ming
Mildred's chief editor
Bolo Yeung
Billion's killer
Lau Kar-Wing
ICAC officer
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