Once a Thief
1996, Film, 92 min, Action, Crime, Thriller, English, Canada, MoviePedia score 58
Set in Hong Kong and Vancouver, the story follows Mac Ramsey and Li Ann Tsei, lovers and professional thieves who are separated while fleeing the powerful Hong Kong underworld crime lord who raised and trained them. After being imprisoned in Hong Kong, Mac is forcefully recruited into a clandestine international crime-fighting unit by a hard-nosed, menacing Director. He is teamed in Vancouver with Li Ann, who thought Mac was dead, and her new fiancé Victor Mansfield, an ex-cop who is attracted to the unorthodox methods of the agency. Conflict flares between Mac and Victor as the trio take on their assignment. They soon learn that their principal target is their foster brother Michael Tang, who had been given Li Ann as his future wife and who has vowed to hunt down the pair for their disloyalty to the "family".
Directed by John Woo
Cast
- Sandrine Holt as Li Ann Tsei
- Ivan Sergei as Mac Ramsey
- Nicholas Lea as Victor Mansfield
- Robert Ito as The Godfather
- Michael Wong as Michael Tang
- Alan Scarfe as Robertson Graves
- Jennifer Dale as The Director
- Nathaniel DeVeaux as Dobrinsky
- Greg Chan as Dance MC
- Young Ryu as Li Ann's Dance Partner
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