{"id":16743,"date":"2024-09-09T20:00:10","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T00:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16743"},"modified":"2024-09-09T12:46:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T16:46:49","slug":"lifeline-1997-johnnie-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16743","title":{"rendered":"Lifeline (1997, Johnnie To)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mad Lau stars in a firefighting action film with choreography by Yuen Bun, whose <em>Once Upon a Time in China<\/em> <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/16742\">sequel<\/a> I just watched.  Alex Fong Chung-Sun (<em>The Iron Angels<\/em> series) is the strict new boss feuding with his ex-wife.  Ruby Wong is the female officer trying to put career first until her boyfriend starts poking holes in the condoms.  And rookie Raymond Wong Ho-yin (Ruby&#8217;s fellow <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14469\">PTU<\/a><\/em> cop) is just a rookie with an embarrassing dad.  Mad tries to date suicidal doctor Carman Lee (hot traitor cop of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/16604\">Wicked City<\/a><\/em>).  Then all these personal dramas have to be set aside when the team, from a firehouse known for accidents and bad luck, is first on the scene to a massive warehouse fire set by arsonist Lam Suet, and the movie gets extremely, impossibly fiery.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/lifeline1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/lifeline2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/lifeline3.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mad Lau stars in a firefighting action film with choreography by Yuen Bun, whose Once Upon a Time in China sequel I just watched. Alex Fong Chung-Sun (The Iron Angels series) is the strict new boss feuding with his ex-wife. Ruby Wong is the female officer trying to put career first until her boyfriend starts [&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":[451,3302,32,879],"class_list":["post-16743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-firefighting","tag-hong-kong","tag-johnnie-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16743","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=16743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16776,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16743\/revisions\/16776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}