Hi, CineFlix Compact here. Today, I’m going to explain a film called “Project Gutenberg”,
which is an Hong Kong-Chinese action thriller . Keep an eye out and be cautious!
Lee Man and his girlfriend Yuen are painters living in Vancouver.
Yuen makes her drawings while Lee duplicates art by renowned artists. However, his works
are not renowned among local exhibition organizers due to a lack of originality.
One evening as Lee comes home; he overhears Yuen’s manager advising
her to stop being his co-artist in order to succeed. Yuen asks the manager to drop her.
The couple finally manages to display their art. Many like Yuen’s works and disapprove of Lee’s.
one of the artists calls Lee’s works fake, and Lee follows him without knowing that it is a setup.
The artist admits to liking Lee’s works. Lee later goes and burns down the insulted piece.
The artist wants to work with Lee to fake money in a way that is impossible to recognize.
Lee refuses to engage in illegitimate activities. Finally, however,
he accepts the offer for the money. When he gets home, he finds Yuen leaving out of anger.
Lee and the hiring artist fly to Thailand. He still plans to return to Canada and win Yuen back
after earning some cash. Lee is tasked with duplicating the hundred-dollar bill,
which he does over the next few weeks.
After six months of this illegal work, Lee flies back to Vancouver to return a key to Yuen.
He is reluctant to meet her and leaves the key on the table.
The artist takes Lee for a coward for giving up so easily, which sparks an argument.
As proof of his bravery, the artist conducts a gun raid on a police car.
Lee reluctantly helps him out but fears shooting anyone. The policemen are killed, and it shocks
lee. This brings him to the realization that his boss is not in his right mind.
Additionally, he signed up to paint, not kill.
Wing is a counterfeit bill expert called into Hong Kong from Canada following a rise
in fake dollar bills across the world. He meets Mr. Ho, the head of Hong Kong police.
They go on an undercover mission, trying to buy using fake money.
After meeting a few brokers, they are allowed to meet the artist on a boat party, who sends
his brokers in his place. But unfortunately, the brokers find out that Wing is not a broker.
One afternoon, Lee tells the boss he wishes to leave the team. He promises to find a way
of keeping their business active even after quitting. He is allowed to do as he wishes.
The team travels the world selling their money, making huge profits. Finally, Thai Crime boss
‘The General’ becomes their biggest bidder. He calls the artist and his team for business.
However, the General killed the artist’s father long ago, and the artist is here for revenge.
The artist commands Lee to trigger the explosives inside his jacket,
but he refuses. A shoot-out ensues, killing everyone on the General’s team, apart from Sarah,
their counterfeit expert. She joins the team, Lee takes care of her, and they become friends.
The team breaks for a year. Over this time, Lee and the artist return to Vancouver,
trying to win Yuen back. Unfortunately, she has become popular and is engaged to her manager.
The artist encourages Lee to fight over her, but he is reluctant.
They are on their way to meet Mr. wing, before which the artist knows Wing’s true identity.
Once in a room, the artist commands Lee to kill Mr. Wing,
but he refuses. The artist eventually does it himself.
Trying to overcome Lee’s killing fear, The artist kidnaps Yuen and her lover and
commands Lee to kill them, but he still refuses. Finally, the artist kills the fiancé himself,
and Lee saves Yuen. Sarah feels that Lee will be killed too.
She remembers all Lee has done for her. She attacks the team, killing all the members,
while Lee kills the artist. Sarah forces Lee to let go of Yuen and takes him to a resort.
They realize he is still alive since the police never recovered his body.
Lee realizes that Yuen plans to organize a memorial for his late fiancé.
He suspects that the artist will attend to kill Yuen and get him. Sarah begs him not to go,
but he still goes. On the way, he buys using fake currency and is arrested.
He is taken to Hong Kong and interrogated by Inspector Ho. He fears the artist and hides
his identity. A few days later, Yuen comes to convince Lee to work with the police. They agree
that Lee will be released on witness protection to reveal the artist’s ways. He tells everything and
makes sketches of Sarah and the artist. Lee and Yuen are finally left in a hotel with security.
While the police search for the artist, Inspector Ho
sees him in a police uniform at the police headquarters. He is arrested,
revealing that he has been a police officer and helped Ho to bring Lee from Thailand to Hong Kong.
Lee recalled his face from the route. A flashback shows that Lee and the artist are the same person.
The artist was a creation of Lee’s mind as a way of escaping the reality that he is a bad person.
Every time he was not comfortable with his actions,
Lee was the one executing them. He is the one who killed Yuen’s lover.
Further, we discover that Sarah bailed Lee, not Yuen. Sarah was extremely obsessed with Lee that
she got plastic surgery to disguise her burnt face. The surgery makes her identical to Yuen.
She was after saving her lover, and they fled the hotel after executing the guards.
The following scene shows the two lovers in bed.
Sarah feels low about being Yuen’s counterfeit and always having to be Lee’s second option.
However, Lee does not keep it a secret that he is still in love with Yuen.
The next day, they set out to run away from Hong Kong on a boat.
On the way, however, Sarah admits to having been driving in circles,
and they are still within Hong Kong. She wants to kill both of them to end her misery.
Soon, they are surrounded by the police, but the boat explodes, killing them.
Inspector Ho goes to the genuine Yuen to inform her of the death of her lover’s killer.
Upon seeing the picture, Yuen realizes Lee was his long-ago neighbor.
It turns out that lee was fantasizing about his whole relationship with Yuen.
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