Project Gutenberg

(2018)

★ 7.1 IMDb · 144 votes

Genres: Action, Crime, Mystery

Year: 2018

Runtime: 130 мин

Country: China, Hong Kong

Director: 莊文強

Cast: Чоу Юнь-Фат, 郭富城, Чжан Цзинчу, Joyce Feng, 廖啟智, 周家怡, Ван Яо Цин, 孫佳君, 張松枝, 張建聲

Plot

The Hong Kong police is hunting a counterfeiting gang led by a mastermind code-named "Painter" . The gang possesses exceptional counterfeiting skills which makes it difficult to distinguish the authenticity of its counterfeit currency. The scope of their criminal activities extends globally and greatly attracts the attention of the police. In order to crack the true identity of "Painter", the police recruits a painter named Lee Man to assist in solving the case.

Hong Kong police takes a counterfeiter, Lee Man, back from a foreign prison. He's to help them catch Painter/Chow Yun-Fat, the leader of a counterfeit syndicate responsible for many deaths. All the police has is a non-revealing photo ergo nothing besides Lee Man. He has reasons to fear getting killed by Painter as others from the old gang are dead. He speaks after being promised release in exchange. He met Miss Yuen in Vancouver 1985. After years as painters without having sold a painting, he looks for another source of income. Miss Yuen has talent but Lee Man has non as artist but he's offered money for making copies of valuable paintings, which he has talent for. That's how he meets Painter and joins his team making counterfeit USD100 bills.