Shock Wave

Shock Wave is a 2017 Hong Kong action film written and directed by Herman Yau, produced by and starring Andy Lau. Released on 20 April 2017 in Hong Kong and 28 April 2017 in all China, the film is Yau and Lau's third collaboration as director and star respectively after 1991's Don't Fool Me and 1999's Fascination Amour. A standalone sequel to the film, titled Shock Wave 2, began production in February 2019 and wrapped up on 8 May 2019, and was theatrically released on 24 December 2020. It features new characters and a new storyline, with Lau and Yau returning to their duties as producer and star, and as director respectively. Plot Bomb disposal officer Cheung Choi-san of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Bureau (EOD) have been working undercover in a gang of thieves led by Hung Kai-pang, who specializes in bombs. Cheung coordinates with his handler, Superintendent Chow, and senior inspector Kong Yiu-wai of the Regional Crime Unit, and manages to arrest a number of Hung's underling, including his younger brother, Hung Kai-piu, after performing a cash vault robbery, and also successfully disposes of a bomb stopping it from detonating. However, Hung managed to escape arrest and vows for revenge. Six months later, Cheung resumes his position in EOD and is quickly promoted as superintendent of the department and meets a recently divorced primary school teacher, Carmen, and begins to date her. A year later, Hung has employed a group of mercenary soldiers and delivers morphine and heroin for drug dealers in the Golden Triangle. Man Chung Corporation president Yim Kwok-wing offers him HK$50 million deposit to hijack the Cross-Harbour Tunnel to lure the Hong Kong Government repurchase Man Chung's stocks of the Western Harbour Crossing. Meanwhile, after Cheung receives an honor for his undercover duties, Superintendent Chow is killed after a bomb goes off in his car, which Cheung suspects as Hung's doings. The day after, Hung plants a bomb with a mercury trigger outside of the Revenue Tower, which Cheung successfully disposes before bringing in three pounds of C4 via a remote control toy truck, which is set to detonate in three minutes, so Kong drives Cheung to toss the bomb into Victoria Harbour. Soon after, Hung and his mercenaries hijack the Cross-Harbour Tunnel, trapping hundreds of civilians hostage with 1,000 kg of C4 explosives, placing 500 kg at each entrance of the tunnel.