Helios (2015)

A portable nuclear device, DC8, has been stolen from South Korea by a ruthless criminal (Chang Chen) and his accomplice (Janice Man). As the weapon will change hands in Hong Kong, Lee (Nick... See full summary »

Directors:

Lok Man Leung (as Longman Leung), Lok Man Leung

Writers:

Dean Kole, Lok Man Leung (screenplay) (as Longman Leung)

Stars:

Chen Chang, Jin-hee Ji, Nick Cheung

2 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Chen Chang	...	Messenger Gam Dao-Nin
Jin-hee Ji	...	Col. Choi Min-Ho
Nick Cheung	...	Insp. Lee Yan-Ming
Shawn Yue	...	Fan Ka-Ming
Si Won Choi	...	Park Woo-cheol (as Siwon Choi)
Janice Man	...	Messenger Zhang Yijun
Jacky Cheung	...	Prof. Siu Chi-Yan
Xueqi Wang	...	Song An
Hae-sook Kim	...	Park Yung-sook (as Hae-suk Kim)
Mike Leeder	...	Younger / older Mr. Big
Tae-ran Lee	...	Yoon Hee-seon
Joyce Wenjuan Feng	...	Yuan Xiaowen (as Wenjuan Feng)
Hedwig Tam	...	Insp. Fan's subordinate
Temur Mamisashvili	...	Mr. Big's Bodyguard
Philip Keung	...	Wong, Kin Chung

Storyline

A portable nuclear device, DC8, has been stolen from South Korea by a ruthless criminal (Chang Chen) and his accomplice (Janice Man). As the weapon will change hands in Hong Kong, Lee (Nick Cheung) from the territory's Counter Terrorism Response Unit sets up a task force, which includes police officer Fan (Shawn Yue), to deal with the crisis. He enlists physics professor Siu (Jacky Cheung) as an adviser and has to work with South Korean weapon experts Choi (Ji Jin Hee) and Pok (Choi Si Won). Despite their efforts, the elusive criminal mastermind, Helios, is always a step ahead of Lee.

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Plot Keywords:

police officer | arms smuggling | double cross | physicist | diplomacy | 

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Fantasy | Thriller

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Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook

Country:

Hong Kong China USA

Language:

Cantonese Mandarin Korean

Release Date:

1 May 2015 (Hong Kong)

Also Known As:

Chi Dao

Box Office

Budget:

$26,000,000 (estimated)

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$37,938,005

Company Credits

Production Co:

Media Asia Films, Wanda Media Co., Sun Entertainment Culture

Technical Specs

Runtime:

118 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Atmos Dolby Digital Dolby Surround 7.1

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

The hacker uses the Hydra hacking tool to break into a computer. However, the computer screen shows the attack's target IP address to be 192.168.1.100. That is a private network address which means the hacker attacks a target in his own local network.

User Reviews

What a mess!

I gave 2 stars just for the firefighting scenes, if without considering this very small and unimportant part, then it should get only 1 star or even less. Again, a lousy screenplay with terrible and awkward dialog, the conversation between every two persons or three persons were so awkward and illogical, especially when the guy who played the high ranking official from China tried to deliver his bullshitting national security crap, the guy just turned into an obnoxious moron, the logic of his reasoning about holding the nuclear weaponry in Hong Kong, then got excuse to discuss and negotiate this situation was just absurd and ridiculous, even a low I.Q. moron would think it was stupid.

At the very beginning of the movie, we saw a crashed airplane, then we saw a young woman from China visited the crashing site. It was a night scene, yet this female moron still unbelievably wore dark sunglasses! As soon as this scene appeared on the screen, my immediate thought was: "WTF?!" And from then on, ridiculous scene after scene accompanied with the stupidest and the most awkward dialog kept coming up.

The actor who played the so-called "Helios" was definitely a terrible wrong cast, a skinny guy looked like a junkie without showing any believable cunning abilities to be a well-known international weaponry smuggler. Then there was his bodyguard, another "WTF?!" casting again. Casting pretty and sexy flesh and meat to play a dangerous, murderous role, even it may be necessary, this young woman was absolutely inserted just for the eye-candy to boost the box office, but it's still a very formulaic and stupid appendix role.

The guy who played the highest Hong Kong police officer was another wrong choice for such important role, the guy with a botox cosmetic face and a sissy hairdo only gave the viewers another unconvincing, much too light weighted lamer impression.

The professor was unfortunately given terrible dialog to almost every occasion, and his formulaic image of a bookworm nerd was a funny bow tie!

Two handsome Korean male actors were good; at least the plastic cosmetic jobs were great. :)