Shawn Yue

A nuclear device, DC8, has been stolen from South Korea. As the weapon will change hands in Hong Kong, Inspector Lee sets up a task force in order to get it back. But the elusive criminal mastermind, Helios, is always a step ahead of Lee. A portable nuclear device, DC8, has been stolen from South Korea by a ruthless criminal (Chang Chen) and his accomplice (Janice Man). As the weapon will change hands in Hong Kong, Lee (Nick Cheung) from the territory's Counter Terrorism Response Unit sets up a task force, which includes police officer Fan (Shawn Yue), to deal with the crisis. He enlists physics professor Siu (Jacky Cheung) as an adviser and has to work with South Korean weapon experts Choi (Ji Jin Hee) and Pok (Choi Si Won). Despite their efforts, the elusive criminal mastermind, Helios, is always a step ahead of Lee. —Ramesh

In the year 2044, 25-year-old Joseph Simmons / Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), works for a mafia company in Kansas City as a "Looper". Since tracking systems in the future of 2074 have made it nearly impossible to dispose of bodies undetected, the syndicate sends its enemies back in time to be executed. Time travel had been invented but was outlawed. So, only the large mafia organizations could afford to use it. Led by a man sent from the future named Abe (Jeff Daniels), Loopers kill and dispose of victims sent back in time from 2074 and are paid by employers with bars of silver attached to the target as payment. Victims appear at a designated location and at a designated time, with their head sacked and hands tied. Additionally, when a Looper is retired (if they are still alive after 30 years of service), the Looper's future self is sent back in time exactly thirty years as a routine target, but with a gold bar payment. This event is referred to as "closing the loop", and, similarly to routine hits, carries serious consequences if not carried out. Post closing the loop, the Looper is released from their contract and can look forward to a life of peace for the next 30 years. One night, Seth (Paul Dano), Joe's friend and a fellow Looper who is a telekinetic, visits him in a panic. On the verge of closing his own loop, Seth's future self (Frank Brennan) warned him of a mysterious character called the Rainmaker, who overran the future crime bosses and was retiring all of the Loopers' contracts in 2074, resulting in numerous premature Looper deaths. Hesitating, Seth unintentionally allowed his future self to escape and is being hunted by his employers for failing to close his own loop. Joe hides Seth in his apartment and is taken to Abe (the leader of the Loopers, who was sent back in time by the mob bosses to control them). Under threat of losing half of all his silver, Joe reluctantly tells Abe where he hid Seth. Abe's elite "Gat Men" capture Seth, carve an address into his arm, and begin severing his body parts surgically. These effects appear on Old Seth's body. He then goes to the address on his arm and is killed by Kid Blue (Noah Segan), one of the Gat Men. When Joe's next target arrives, it is his older self, but with his face uncovered and hands unbound. Old Joe knocks him out and escapes. Returning to his apartment and finding it ransacked by the Gat Men, Joe fights with Kid Blue, falls off a fire escape, and blacks out. In another time-line, Joe does kill his older self. When Joe closes his own loop, he shoots his older self (Bruce Willis) without hesitation, as his head is sacked and is therefore initially unidentifiable. He retires to Shanghai, China, where he later falls in love and marries. He burns through his funds in 10 years, due to his drug addiction and wild party life. Broke, he becomes a hit-man. Seventeen years later, he marries and breaks the addiction with his wife's help. After his 30 years pass, Joe is taken from his home to be sent back to 2044 to close the loop, but his wife is killed in the process. Fighting and killing his captors as a result, Joe returns to 2044 unmasked and unbound, allowing him to surprise his younger self and avoid death. Old Joe experiences vague memories of Joe's actions in the present and meets his younger self at a diner. He wants to save his wife by killing The Rainmaker as a child. Young Joe, still trying to close his loop, ends up in a struggle trying to kill old Joe. Stealing a map containing coordinates and a code from old Joe that supposedly pertain to the Rainmaker's identity, young Joe then flees when Kid Blue and Abe's men appear with the intent to kill them. Young Joe, following the map, reaches a farmhouse owned by Sara (Emily Blunt) and her son Cid (Pierce Gagnon). When Joe shows Sara the map, Sara recognizes the code as Cid's birthday along with the zip code of the hospital he was born in, prompting Joe to discover old Joe is going to kill the three children that could become the Rainmaker. Joe then decides to wait at the farm for the arrival of his older self and becomes close to Sara. Later that night, Sara and Joe have sex, and Sara reveals that while she has above-average telekinetic powers, Cid's abilities are far stronger. Joe soon learns that Sara is a telekinetic, and that Cid was raised by Sara's sister for most of his life until she was accidentally killed by Cid during one of his telekinetic rage episodes. One morning, they are attacked by one of Abe's thugs named Jesse (Garret Dillahunt), who is killed when Cid falls into a rage and lets out a large telekinetic blast. Cid's extraordinary telekinetic powers - which are far more powerful than any other mutant's - cause Joe to realize that he is the Rainmaker. However, the realization radically changes old Joe's memories, tipping him off that Cid is the Rainmaker. Before old Joe can act, however, Kid Blue captures him. Escaping capture, old Joe kills Abe and his gang, and heads for Sara's house. Kid Blue, reaching the farm, is fought and killed by young Joe. Concurrently, old Joe pursues Sara and Cid into the farm cane fields where he maims Cid, resulting in Cid causing a telekinetic blast. Before Cid can kill old Joe, Sara calms and reassures him to stop his telekinetic rage. Then, telling Cid to run, Sara stands in old Joe's path to stop him shooting Cid. Young Joe realizes that his older self will shoot Sara and enrage Cid, perpetuating the creation of the Rainmaker rather than preventing it. Unable to stop his older self and knowing it's his last chance to stop the Rainmaker, young Joe instead shoots himself. By doing so, he erases his future self through suicide, saving Sara and potentially preventing Cid from becoming the Rainmaker.

What happens to us when people stop acting like they're supposed to? A nurse gets into a dispute at work because she switches to speaking English when she gets nervous. A translator compromises her integrity when persuaded to translate a book she doesn't believe in. An elderly woman and her daughter are humiliated when offered a present of one million kroner from a relative. I Belong is a warm and nuanced film about people who all mean well, but end up hurting one another. About how people who act on integrity and feelings are seen as troublesome in a society where the ideal is to behave rationally. A playful tragedy-comedy about how what seems like something of little importance to one person, can seem like a grand disaster to another. —Motlys

Chan Wing-Yan (Tony Leung), a police cadet, is ostensibly expelled from the police academy, but is actually selected to be an undercover cop reporting only to Superintendent Wong Chi-Shing (Anthony Wong). Wong is the only person aware of his mission and true identity. Around the same time, Lau Kin-Ming (Andy Lau), a triad member, infiltrates the Hong Kong Police Force on the orders of a powerful gang boss, Hon Sam (Eric Tsang). Each mole has been planted by the rival organization to gain an advantage over the other side. Over the course of ten years, Chan experiences great stress from his undercover work while Lau quickly rises through the ranks in the police department. Using Morse code on a secret radio frequency (the transmitter is cleverly hidden in a plaster cast on his hand), Chan is able to relay data back to Wong that Sam is conducting a drug deal with the Thais. The money will be exchanged in an apartment, but drugs to be handed over a few miles off at sea. However, Lau alerts Sam by sending a SMS to all the cells in the area using his private data card, instead of the police network, giving him enough time to order his minions to dispose of the evidence. After the incident, both Wong and Sam are tasked with finding the moles in their respective organization. After this incident, Wong and Sam realize they each have a spy within their own organizations, and race each other to uncover the moles. By this time, both Chan and Lau are struggling with their double lives. Chan is afraid he is turning into an actual criminal while also fearing his cover will be blown. He begins undergoing sessions with psychiatrist Lee Sum-Yee and jokingly tells her that he is a cop. Meanwhile, Lau appreciates his life as a respected police officer and wants to sever his ties with the triad. Lau has been charged to dig out the mole in the police department by transferring him to the internal affairs department, with a promotion. Lau uses his new role to have Wong under constant observation, hoping to catch him meeting his mole. Chan follows Sam when he gets the details of all the men who were with him on that night and intends to pass them to Lau for investigation. The info is exchanged in a dark theatre. Chan follows Lau, without knowing it is Lau, but Lau has a lucky escape when Chan gets a call and is distracted. Wong intends to pull Chan out of undercover work for fear of his safety. Wong doesn't know that Lau has him under constant surveillance. When Wong goes to meet Chan at the usual meeting place. Sam learns about Wong's location from Lau and sends his henchmen to confront them. Chan escapes from the building while Wong tries to distract the gangsters but ends up being thrown off the roof to his death. Just then, the police show up and a shootout ensues. Henchman Keung, unaware that Chan is the mole, chauffeurs him away from the scene but succumbs to a gunshot wound he sustained earlier. When the news reports that Keung was apparently an undercover cop, Sam assumes he was the mole. Through this incident, Lau retrieves Wong's cell phone and contacts Chan. Both of them agree to foil a drug deal by Sam. The plan succeeds and many of Sam's men are arrested, while Lau betrays Sam and murders him. Everything seems to have returned to normal. Chan can revert to his true identity as a cop while Lau has erased his criminal connections. Meanwhile Lau finds the password for Chan's protected file from Chan. Chan doesn't know yet that Lau is the Mole, and then later deletes all records proving that Chan is a police officer. However, back at police headquarters, Chan and Lau meet for the first time. As Lau prepares to reinstate Chan into the police force, Chan deduces that Lau was the mole and leaves promptly. He finds the papers that Sam had given Lau to help him identify the mole in the triad ranks. Realising what had happened, Lau takes possession of Chan's police identity file to use as leverage to dissuade Chan from exposing him. Chan meets with Lee, the only person left whom he can trust, and convinces her that he truly is a cop. Chan then sends a CD to Lau's address containing a recording of Lau's earlier meeting with Sam. Lau's fiance, Mary, inadvertently listens to the CD and discovers Lau's secret. Chan and Lau meet on the same rooftop where Wong was killed earlier. Chan disarms Lau and holds a pistol to his head as a rebuke to Lau's plea for forgiveness and request to remain a cop. Inspector B (Gordon Lam) arrives on the scene shortly and orders Chan to release Lau. Chan holds Lau as a hostage at gunpoint and backs into the lift, but upon moving his head from behind Chan is suddenly shot in the head by B, who then reveals to Lau that he is also a mole planted by Sam. As they take the lift down to the lobby, Lau kills B out of his desire to eradicate traces of his past, become a "good guy" cop, and end the mole hunt. Stepping out of the lift, Lau shows his identity card to the police to identify himself as one of them. Months after Chan's death, his psychiatrist Lee (Kelly Chen) (whom Chan used to frequent to keep himself from going completely Psycho) discovers records revealing Chan's true identity as an undercover police officer. B becomes a scapegoat for Lau as the real mole in the police force and the case is closed. Lau salutes Chan at his funeral. A flashback reaffirms the point at which Lau wished he had taken a different route in life. An alternate ending for the film was shot in order to comply with Article 25 (7) of the Chinese Film Administration Regulations specifying that films cannot propagate obscenity, gambling or violence, or abet to commit crimes. In the original Hong Kong ending, Lau concealed his true identity as a triad spy and identified himself as a police officer to avoid punishment. Therefore, the original ending was deemed to promote criminal activity and injustice, and an alternate ending was filmed to make the film suitable for mainland China. In the alternate ending, Inspector Cheung discovers evidence of Lau's criminal activity and immediately arrests him when he gets off the lift. This alternate ending was shown in mainland China and Malaysia.