''Tactical Unit: Comrades in Arms'' () is a 2009 Hong Kong film directed by

Law Wing-Cheong Law Wing-Cheong (born 26 June 1966), also known as Vincent Lo, is a Hong Kong film editor, an assistant director, film director, and actor. He is best known for collaborating as an associate director for films made by Johnnie To and Wai Ka-Fai o ...

. This film is also called "PTU 2", in reference to the first film in the series, '' PTU'', though it is not the second entry in the ''Tactical Unit'' series. "Comrades in Arms" has been featured in the ''2009 Hong Kong Film Panorama'' in Brussels, the ''2009 New York Asian Film Festival'' of New York City, the 2009 ''Zero em Comportamento'' festival of Lisbon, and the ''2009

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'' of Montreal.

Plot

As a front-line police officer, you never leave a brother behind or bite a brother's behind... Tactical Unit Column Sergeant Sam (

Simon Yam Simon Yam Tat-wah (; born 19 March 1955) is a Hong Kong actor and film producer. He received international acclaim for his performances in international film festival and box office hits such as ''Naked Killer'', '' SPL: Sha Po Lang'', ''Election' ...

) and May (

Maggie Siu Maggie Shiu (born February 27, 1965) is a prominent Hong Kong actress. Career Her career began in 1985 when she joined Hong Kong TVB. As her career developed, she took on variety of roles in TV series and movies. Hong Kong audiences still remember ...

) have been working together for some time but have never got along well. May is promoted recently as she always wins praises from her supervisor, whereas Sam is shut out from any chance of promotion. As a result, their column's morale drops to all-time low. A daring bank heist takes the tactical unit to Hong Kong's remote mountains searching for armed bandits. As Sam and May lead their team to conduct sweeps amidst treacherous terrain and deadly ambushes, they understand the only way to survive the mission is if they stick together as one.

Cast

- Sam *

Maggie Shiu Maggie Shiu (born February 27, 1965) is a prominent Hong Kong actress. Career Her career began in 1985 when she joined Hong Kong TVB. As her career developed, she took on variety of roles in TV series and movies. Hong Kong audiences still remember ...

- May *

Lam Suet Lam Suet (; born 1964), or Lin Xue, is a Hong Kong film actor. Life and career Lam was born in Tianjin, and came to Hong Kong as a youth in 1979 to receive inheritance money left by his grandfather. Soon after, all the money had been squander ...

- Fat Lo * Samuel Pang - Roy * Vincent Sze - Cow *

Ben Wong Ben Wong Chi-yin (born 20 October 1967) is a Hong Kong actor best known for his roles as Yung Heung-hoi in the long-running drama series '' A Kindred Spirit'' and Spicy Ginger in the crime drama ''Lives of Omission'', the latter garnering him ...

- Officer Ho * Teddy Lin * Tommy Yuen * Lam King Kong * Lam Diy Kuen * Wong Chi Wai * Cheung Wing Cheung * Hon Chun * Lee Gin Hing * Luk Man Wai * Ma Chao * Wong Gwan Hong * Jack Wong Wai Leung * Wong Wa Wo

Production

Several scenes of the film were shot at St. Joseph's Church in

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Release

''Comrades in Arms'' was released in theaters on 8 January 2009. The film was released on

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and

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on 17 April 2009.

Awards and nominations

16th

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* Film of Merit

References

External links

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