Rating: TBA
Genre: Thriller
Main Cast: Andy Lau, Daniel Wu, Louis Koo, Anita Yuen
Director: Dereck Yee
Release Date 15 February 2007
Synopsis
Undercover officer Nick (Daniel Wu) had spent the last eight years
penetrating into the core of a drug sales ring working his way up
from a street dealer post to the managerial position handling cargo
deliveries for Jong (Andy Lau) the biggest player in the local
heroin market. When the ailing Jong makes Nick his protégé, Nick
could not but sway before money and power and starts to perform his
role like a real drug trafficker. This, together with his affair
with heroin-addict Jane (Zhang Jingchu), causes Nick to becomes
more and more confused about his true identity, and eventually
leads to a disastrous end.
Based on materials provided by retired undercover agents of the
police force, Protégé attempts to realistically tell the story of
undercover agents in the clandestine drug world, who struggle to
constantly walk on the fine line between justice and crime, but who
will never see the day of serving in the regular police
force.
Directed by Derek Yee (One Night In Mongkok), produced by Peter
Chan (Perhaps Love).
