A Hong Kong jurist named Adrian Lam gets on the wrong side of the hiss boss and decides to found his own law firm and take on a case involving a Hong Kong oligarch family. Adrian gets too cocky and over-his-head and is set-up into losing the case. Years later, he finds evidence that leads to a retrial and one more shot at redemption.
While I won't spoil the film here, this was such a big it because it uses every movie court-room drama trope in the book to commentate on the class divide (and possibly the sentiment concerning recent political events) in Hong Kong. Louise Wong's role as the wrongly-accused was worthy of Ruan Lingyu. Dayo Wong really does his job right as the magistrate turned lawyer. If you liked Witness for the Prosecution or A Time to Kill then you will like this movie.
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