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Saving Mr Wu
When popular television actor Wu Ruofu was kidnapped in Beijing in 2004, the Chinese detectives led by Chief Xing quickly form a task force and sweep the city in 20 hours because Mr. Wu will be killed at 9pm regardless of whether the money is collected or not.
21 May 1962, Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, China
8 July 1964, Tianjin, China
20 September 1982, Beijing, China
14 March 1988, Bengbu, Anhui, China
27 September 1961, Tai Po, Hong Kong
28 July 1956, Qingdao, Shandong, China
1 August 1984, Laiwu, Shandong, China
23 March 1978, Jilin, China
April 02, 2016
This blend of abduction thriller and police procedural ... is an entertaining genre exercise that methodically reshuffles its timeline to fend off predictability.
October 06, 2016
It's a tight, fast-moving, entertaining cop drama that does away with the criminal mastermind clichés to show a more realistic portrait of a kidnapping and police investigation energized by car chases, flashing sirens, and strike force action.
September 30, 2015
Gleaming, elementally machined, Ding Sheng's "Saving Mr. Wu" stars Andy Lau in a crackling true-life thriller ... [T]he inevitable showdown... is cleanly choreographed.
October 02, 2015
Saving Mr. Wu is terrific fun as a crime thriller, with great photography and tense action sequences. Yet it truly excels in its quieter moments ...
July 11, 2016
But for a film where the audience already knows the ending, Saving Mr. Wu manages to satisfy and excite.
May 24, 2016
While all the attention is naturally on Mr Wu and Lau, the film's true breakout star here is China actor Wang Qianyuan, who is vicious as the criminal mastermind.
October 01, 2015
The director deploys all the familiar tropes with an assured forcefulness that makes the movie crackle with a rough energy.
October 01, 2015
Ding has done an outstanding job re-creating the events and conveying the complexity and prudence of the cops' investigative chess moves.
