{"id":15474,"date":"2023-01-18T22:00:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T03:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15474"},"modified":"2023-01-16T17:04:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T22:04:39","slug":"running-out-of-time-1999-johnnie-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15474","title":{"rendered":"Running Out of Time (1999, Johnnie To)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought it&#8217;d be funny for my last movie of the year to be called <em>Running Out of Time<\/em>.  Better than <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14467\">A Hero Never Dies<\/a><\/em> but still pretty mainstream-looking.  <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15037\">The Mission<\/a><\/em> came out only two months later, and seems more evolved, more of a signature To film, with more grounded characters &#8211; despite his cancer-death-sentence, Andy Lau is an unstoppable mastermind in this.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not to dismiss the great pleasure of watching Andy Lau as an unstoppable mastermind.  Hotshot cop Ho is Lau Ching-wan (a lead in <em>Hero Never Dies<\/em> and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11414\">Life Without Principle<\/a><\/em>, and the <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/2288\">Mad Detective<\/a> himself).  Lau successfully and singlehandedly robs a bank, and uses that robbery to stage another robbery, settling a score with some diamond-dealing gangsters.  Ho comes to respect the guy and even help him out &#8211; and will return solo in the sequel, since Andy&#8217;s cancer diagnosis wasn&#8217;t bullshit.  Hui Siu-Hung is the chief inspector always fucking up his own crime scenes, Yoyo Mung the cute girl Andy meets, Waise Lee (<em>Bullet in the Head<\/em>) the gangster with lucky henchman Lam Suet.<\/p>\n<p><em>also featuring: great disguises:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/running1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>disguise-makin&#8217; software:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/running2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought it&#8217;d be funny for my last movie of the year to be called Running Out of Time. Better than A Hero Never Dies but still pretty mainstream-looking. The Mission came out only two months later, and seems more evolved, more of a signature To film, with more grounded characters &#8211; despite his cancer-death-sentence, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[451,1705,2820,879],"class_list":["post-15474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-andy-lau","tag-heist","tag-johnnie-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15494,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15474\/revisions\/15494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}