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Detective vs Sleuths is a 2022 Hong Kong action thriller film directed by Wai Ka-fai and starring Sean Lau, Charlene Choi and Raymond Lam. [1] The film follows a former police with mentally disorder (Lau), who allied with elite inspector (Choi), involves into a series of murders which connected to their past cases they've once inspected, which they have to race against time to find out the truth and the mastermind behind the murders.

Detective vs Sleuths
Film poster
Traditional神探大戰
Simplified神探大战
Directed byWai Ka-fai
Written byWai Ka-fai
Ray Chan
Mak Tin-shu
Produced byWai Ka-fai
Jason Siu
Elaine Chu
StarringSean Lau
Charlene Choi
Raymond Lam
CinematographyCheng Siu-Keung
Edited byAllen Leung
Music byChung Chu-wing
Ben Cheung
Production
company
Emperor Motion Pictures
Release dates
  • 8 July 2022 (2022-07-08) (China)
  • 21 July 2022 (2022-07-21) (Hong Kong)
Running time
102 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguageCantonese
Box officeUS$107.4 million[lower-alpha 1]

Originally announced in 2018, the film marks Wai's return to direct since the 2009 film Written By, and reunion with frequent collaborator/actor Lau. The film was released in Hong Kong on 21 July 2022, after a postponed period due to COVID closure of Hong Kong and China theatres. The film has received mixed reviews.


Premise


Jun Lee (Lau), a former police inspector and elite detective in OCTB who has been expelled from the police force, after his serious mental breakdown and ensured a chaos happened in police headquarters due to a wrongly conviction of the Butcher case and the Devil Cop case.

Years later, a series of high profile murders happens, and a group of culprits who called themselves "The Sleuths" leaving the sneak peeks of their next murders, which connected to the cases which Jun has investigated into. Yee Chan (Choi), a fellow lieutenant inspector in OCTB, who also the only survivor in the Butcher case 17 years ago, believes Jun is the only hope to crack the Sleuths, requests his help. The deeper they investigate of the Sleuths' motive of crime, they discover the secrets of the past cases beyond their imagination.


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Box office


Detective vs Sleuths has grossed a total of US$107.4 million worldwide combining its box office gross from Hong Kong (US$1,906,153),[3] and China (US$105.5 million).[4]

In Hong Kong, the film grossed HK$5,224,908 (US$645,603) during its first four days of release, debuting at No. 2.[5] The film remained at No. 2 in its second weekend, grossing HK$5,318,944 and accumulating a total gross of HK$10,543,852 (US$1,343,166) by then.[6] During its third weekend, the film grossed HK$2,999,499, moving down to No. 4, and have grossed a total of HK$13,543,351 (US$1,725,290) by then.[7] On its fourth weekend, the film grossed HK$1,396,127, coming in at No. 7, accumulating a total gross of HK$14,939,478 (US$1,906,153) so far.[8] Announced on August 15, 2022, the box office exceeded HK$15,000,000.[9]


Critical reception


Edmund Lee of South China Morning Post gave the film three stars out of five, and writes "its relentless parade of shoot-outs and explosions also make this quite an exhausting watch".[2]


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