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PTU: Police Tactical Unit

Maggie Shiu (Actor), Ruby Wong (Actor), Johnny To (Director) Rated:

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Genre	Action & Adventure
Format	Color, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Contributor	Maggie Shiu, Ko Hung, Frank Michael Liu, Simon Yam, Lo Hoi-Pang, Raymond Wong, Johnny To, Ruby Wong, Lam Suet, Eddy Ko, Jerome Fung See more
Language	Cantonese
Runtime	1 hour and 25 minutes

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Follows a police tactical unit during one dangerous night on the streets of Hong Kong. The tough, single-minded team has until dawn to recover a cop's stolen gun and clean up the accompanying mess, but things take a deadly twist when their mission intersects with a web of gangland crimes.

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.53 inches; 3.2 Ounces
Director ‏ : ‎ Johnny To
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Color, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 25 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ March 25, 2008
Actors ‏ : ‎ Maggie Shiu, Ruby Wong, Simon Yam, Jerome Fung, Ko Hung
Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ English
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, Spanish
Studio ‏ : ‎ Lisa's Skus
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0010X7432
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Eric Barksdale

Not an action film

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 25, 2015

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Not an action movie if that is what you are looking for. This is more of a crime or cop drama in the line of Infernal Affairs or Serpico. It is still a great film with fine performances from the entire cast.

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DJE87

Somewhat Boring

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 24, 2010

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This movie seemed a little on the boring side with a surprise ending worthy of a giggle. More of a drama than an action movie and even then its hard to pin a genre in relation to this movie. This is in no way a martial arts film. Got a great price on it and expanded upon my Chinese film collection, overall I am satisfied. Was expecting a little more out of this movie though. Oh well... better than most crap in America.

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Mr Axolotl

Rather dull in spite of good director and cast.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 10, 2015

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Not much to recommend here. I normally like the director Johnny To and have several of his movies, and Simon Yam is great but this is a meandering rather dull police story. I guess shooting with no script makes for "realism" but a movie needs to rise above the mundane.

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3 ½ stars: A Clever, Gritty Crime drama with the Johnnie To signature....

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 7, 2008

PTU (Police Tactical Unit) is the handiwork of award-winning Hong Kong director; Johnnie To(Full-time Killer, Exiled, Breaking News). I've always read that Johnnie To is the epitome of hard-boiled cool, his films usually have that dark, gritty style with sly humor and stylized, intense gunfights. PTU's screenplay all happens in one evening, and while its premise is quite simple, with a script not as polished as "Infernal Affairs", To's signature style is still represented quite proudly.

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Set against a TsimSha Tsui that never sleeps, a stolen police sidearm triggers a suspenseful chain of events. Tracking down the missing gun before dawn, police inspector Lo (Lam Suet, Dog Bite Dog) gets his car vandalized, then he gets beaten up by street thugs. Suddenly, he is wedged between two gangs on a brink of a bloodbath. While staving off investigations by both the anti-vice squad and homicidal unit embroiled in a turf war. His only lifeline is a maverick team of Police Tactical Unit headed by a cop named Mike Ho (Simon Yam, Exiled) who helps him search for his missing gun.

PTU stands for Police Tactical Unit, the film itself uses a very simple premise. But the film is full of the usual Johnnie To signature. Characters, all threads collide in one night, high contrasting light versus dark. A natural minimalization versus a deep sense of dark humor. The film has a very cool and precise timing in its proceedings that the film is a gritty visual ballet.

The delight of watching To's films is the way the scenes unfold; questions are answered and more questions arise. Although the film does leave some questions unanswered, a clever script, great acting, humor smartly dispersed in its proceedings and the film does have a few surprises in store for the viewer; makes for very powerful cinema. There's really a very slim chance that the viewer will figure out the climax that is the beauty of Johnnie's films. Also, the magic of his film-making is that the director always finds the right actors for the role. Lam Suet hardly plays a lead role and that adds to the feeling of unknown and the viewer will have no difficulty connecting with his eccentric character. Simon Yam fits the role of over-the-top policeman Mike Ho, his methods are a bit extreme and unorthodox at times, but he does have his own sense of loyalty and camaraderie that is very effective.

PTU, truth be told, is another "buddy flick" because Johnnie likes to emphasize friendship in his films, but he adds nasty and dark characters to balance the shades of gray, black and white, good and evil. The supporting characters are given a purpose in the film's direction. No wasted opportunity, as Johnnie To maneuvers the proceedings to ultimate irony. There is a lot of dialogue and the film balances out with its excellent cinematography, which brings us to its strongest point. The film is mostly shot at night, and the awesome use of lighting gives the film a dark, atmospheric feel. In a way, the film is presented almost like a stage play, the members of PTU move around in the rain and uses simple street lamps to emphasize attention to what is happening, that under the spotlight; something relevant that may affect the lives of others is going on. I rather thought that the spotlights were meant to represent the underworld, its dealings and the rules that apply.

However, on the minus side, the film's pacing suffer a bit because there are quite a few "slow" moments and the action is almost non-existent until the climax. Now, don't take this as negative comments, the film is great the way it is; a police drama that makes a really good effort in engaging its audience that even though the film is slower paced than most of To's films, the style is immersive as the story unfolds. That is one of Johnnie To's strengths; he has a great feel for storytelling.

PTU may not be as explosive as his other films such as EXILED, The Mission and Full time Killer, but the film is definitely worth a watch. PTU is a clever return to Hong Kong crime drama, that even with its rather slower pace, the film can stand on its own as one of Johnnie To's greats.

RECOMMENDED! For fans of cop/triad films [3 ½ stars+]

Note: I own the Hong Kong release by Mei-Ah entertainment, the Dragon Dynasty release should carry an English dubbed track.

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Garvinstomp

Very enjoyable-but only for a certain type of viewer. . .

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 14, 2008

PTU is, unmistakably, a Johnnie To film. That being said, it is not one of his most accessible films. The first time I watched it I felt a bit underwhelmed when it was over. But, being that it was a JT film, I decided to watch all the extras and give it another look. JT is one of those rare filmmakers that if I don't have a strongly positive reaction the first time I see his film I'll give it additional looks because I may be missing something. There aren't many directors about which such a statement can be said. But To works on so many levels you're almost always likely to pick up important subtleties through extra viewings.

PTU is basically a story that follows a series of characters whose storylines are constantly intertwining. The whole movie takes place in the course of one evening. So while it's not a 'real-time' flick, it is fairly compact. I think part of what makes the film hard to grab onto at first is that there is no true main character. This means that it can be tough trying to latch on to a favorite or settle in.

Also, much of what the characters are planning seem to be kept to themselves. Rarely do we get any foresight as to what's going to happen. This is not a movie where you'll be able to see the end from the beginning. You'll likely not be able to anticipate even what the next scene will be. And that can be disconcerting wherein most films there's a certain amount of predictability. Here, To crafts a story that leaves much in the dark, throughout (often quite literally because it takes place during one night).

That being said, this is a fantastic film. I wouldn't argue that it's amongst his best. But even on his worst day he makes most others look like amateurs. As usual, he gets nothing but first rate performances out of his stoic cast. He keeps dialogue to a minimum, doing what he does best and letting actions and mannerisms do much of the storytelling.

PTU is best described as a crime drama. It is very deliberately paced. There are no major set-pieces like in 'The MIssion' or 'Exiled'. It is more a series of smaller events that grow in consequence as we move forward. To fans and those who are intrigued by crime and cop dramas would most likely enjoy this. Some will find it slow or inconsequential. Some will find it altogether boring. But it really is the kind of movie that will grow on you. I doubt it will be anyone's favorite. But it is another solid entry into the Johnnie To library that I'm sure to revisit.

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Denis Urval

Nuit sur Hong-Kong

Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on August 14, 2020

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Dans la filmographie de Johnny To, PTU se situe (en 2003) un peu après Running out of time (1999) et The mission (1999) et avant la grande série qui comporte Breaking news (2004) Election (2005) Election 2 (2006) Exilé (2006) et Sparrow (2008) à quoi j’ajouterais Filatures (2007) dont il est le producteur (ces cinq derniers films sont disponibles dans un seul et même coffret). Sa production récente, dont je me hâte d’avouer que je ne la connais pas dans son intégralité, me paraît nettement plus inégale, même si je n'ai pas détesté pour ma part la comédie Office (2015).

Si ce qui distingue le cinéma de Johnny To du tout-venant du cinéma policier, c’est le style et le regard posé sur les personnages, alors PTU est un exemple de stylisation bien que ce ne soit pas un pur exercice de style : ce qui caractérise le film est la combinaison d’un fil narratif très ténu – trop sans doute pour certains (une arme de service perdue qu’il s’agit de retrouver avant l’aube), d’une unité de temps qui concentre l’action sur quelques heures et fait du film une exploration de Hong Kong la nuit, une nuit rendue à la solitude urbaine (d’où un tournage long et difficile dans une ville où la vie ne s’arrête jamais) et une narration en images où la tension s’emmagasine jusqu’ à l’explosion de violence à la fin, chorégraphiée comme il se doit.

PTU (pour Police tactical unit, type d’unité de la police de Hong Kong spécialisée dans le maintien de l’ordre et la lutte contre la criminalité) est à la fois un film simple et un film assez riche : riche, parce que visuellement il se passe tout le temps quelque chose, parce que l’intrigue policière se combine à une petite analyse sociologique des polices et que, de plus, tout repose finalement sur le « délai de grâce » que le personnage incarné par Simon Yam, le responsable de cette unité, accorde à son collègue brouillon et malchanceux en le secondant dans sa quête. Accorder ce délai, qui coïncide avec l’essentiel du film, c’est faire passer une certaine morale de l’entraide et de la seconde chance avant le respect des procédures légales et le souci de se couvrir à tout prix.

Côté interprétation, Simon Yam est toujours remarquable dans sa sobriété, qu’il soit parrain de la pègre (Election), gentleman et héros de comédie (Sparrow) ou comme ici mélange de flic impitoyable et d’« homme de bien » dans la plus pure tradition confucéenne. Dans le rôle du policier fauteur de troubles cabossé et un peu borderline, Lam Suet, le Oliver Hardy du cinéma de Johnny To, fait avec Simon Yam une paire quasi-idéale.

Pour le dire sans détour, PTU se revoit aussi comme un film qui appartient désormais au passé. Si le film est postérieur à la rétrocession de Hong Kong à la Chine on n’y sent pas encore l’emprise du continent et de ses normes idéologiques (un film postérieur comme Drug war, 2012, est de ce point de vue bien différent). En outre, depuis la révolution des parapluies de 2014 et plus encore le mouvement commencé en 2019, la relation de la population de Hong Kong aux forces de l’ordre s’est sans doute modifiée en profondeur, et pour longtemps. Evoquer la police de Hong Kong obligerait aujourd’hui un cinéaste local soit à affronter une actualité douloureuse où celle-ci appréhende désormais des étudiants, des militants (et récemment le propriétaire d'un journal) plutôt que des malfrats, soit à contourner cette actualité de peur de perdre le soutien des producteurs et de cliver le public. Dans un contexte où en 2020 les menaces sur la liberté d’expression se précisent, on peut se demander si les réalisateurs hong-kongais seront assez habiles et déterminés pour trouver le moyen d’une certaine liberté de ton et ne pas cantonner leurs œuvres dans le seul cadre du pur divertissement commercial ou de la propagande d’état.

Le premier plan de PTU, on le rappelle, c’est la ville vue à travers le grillage à l’arrière d'un véhicule de police.

Pas de fioritures pour cette édition AAA, qui offre le choix entre VO avec possibilité de sous-titres français et VF.

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Sidewinder

Etwas zähe Patrouille

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on November 9, 2010

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Regisseur Johnnie To gehört wohl unbestreitbar zu den Meistern des aktuellen Hongkong-Kinos. Im mehrfach prämierten PTU (= Police Tactical Unit) nimmt er den Zuschauer mit auf eine handwerklich grandiose Reise in die trostlose Nacht, hat dabei aber etwas Wichtiges vergessen.

STORY:
Der harte Polizist Lo (Lam Suet) gerät an die Gang von Gangster Ponytail. Während ein Unbekannter Ponytail ermordet geht Lo bei der Verfolgung der Gang zu Boden und erwacht ohne seine Waffe wieder. Noch ehe die Nacht zu Ende ist, will ihm Mike Ho (Simon Yam), Leiter einer PTU-Truppe, die nachts die Straßen Hongkongs patrouilliert, die Waffe wieder beschaffen. Koste es, was es wolle...

MEINUNG:
To unternimmt mit seinem Film eine beeindruckende Studie von Licht und Schatten, überzeugt mit gewohnt guter Kamera und Regie. Dabei verwehrt er einen leichten Zugang zur einfach gestrickten Geschichte, mit deren Hilfe er auch Polizeigewalt deutlich reflektiert. Leider, und das ist ein großes Problem, hat To dabei versäumt, den Zuschauer durch Erzeugung von Spannung an die Ereignisse zu binden. Fast teilnahmslos muss man sich durch den zähen Erzählfluss arbeiten und wird dafür zwar mit mustergültiger Regiearbeit belohnt aber zusätzlich mit äußerst anstrengender Musik (auch von To) gequält. Dass auch die Schauspieler (allen voran die beiden genannten) ihre Sache gut machen und an einigen Stellen Tos lakonischer Humor durchblitzt, geht dabei fast unter. Schade. Bei weitem nicht so gut, wie er sein könnte.

DVD:
Die DVD kommt im schicken Steelbook daher, beinhaltet gutes Bild und ordentlichen Ton in Deutsch (etwas kraftvoller aber mit nur durchschnittlicher Synchronisation) und Kantonesisch (mit DD 2.0 etwas dünn). Als Extras gibt es deutsche Untertitel, eine Slideshow, Trailer zum Film, Trailershow und nette Interviews mit To (10 Min.) und Yam (7 Min.).

FAZIT:
Als Bildkomponist ist To so herausragend wie man ihn kennt, leider wird trotzdem nur selten Spannung erzeugt. Als Thriller oder gar Actionfilm fällt PTU damit eindeutig durch, hat es aber auch als Drama schwer. Die DVD kommt in einer schönen Verpackung und ausreichenden Ausstattungsmerkmalen. Das Bonusmaterial hätte noch etwas umfangreicher sein können.

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Cornelius von Dobeneck

toll Simon Yam mal etwas enspannter zu sehen

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on February 17, 2014

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Johnny To ist schon lange im Geschäft und schafft es trotzdem alte Geschichten immer wieder neu und unterhaltsam zu erzählen ohne dabei den Verstand des Zuschauers zu ignorieren.
Johnny To hat das fast eingeschlafene Hong Kong Kino Genre "Heroic Bloddshed" um die Komponenten Sensibilität, Aktualität und Arthouse erweitert. Hoffen wir das er noch mehr Filme der gleichen Qualität macht.

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NickyLarson

Film bien trop sommaire

Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on September 9, 2015

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Personnellement, j'avais commandé ce film depuis un bon moment et qu'en je l'ai reçu je n'ai pas perdu de temps à le visionner. J'ai été totalement déçu pourtant j'adore les films asiatique mais j'ai trouvé celui-ci totalement sans âme, je me suis ennuyée. Il y a un tel manque d'action, certains acteurs sur jouent leur rôle. Il y a une scène où un homme par terre se prendre des coups de pieds on voit vraiment bien qu'il n'est absolument pas touché, c'est la scène la moins crédible du film. Franchement à part, Simon Yam qui relève le niveau du film mais vu le scénario bien trop sommaire je n'ai pas pu accrocher. En plus, il n' y a pas de bonus, heureusement qu'il y a la version originale pour palier tout de même à la version française.

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Nils

Für Fans des Genres

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on September 9, 2010

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Für Genrefans dürfte dieser Film offenbar was ganz Besonderes sein. Mich hat er nicht begeistert. Während der ersten 45 Minuten kämpfte ich ständig mit dem Einschlafen. Es passiert einfach zu wenig.

Ein schmieriger Polizist wird von jugendlichen Gangmitgliedern verprügelt und verliert seine Dienstwaffe. Er meldet den Verlust nicht, um Nachteile zu vermeiden. Es besteht die Gefahr, dass mit der Waffe ein Verbrechen begangen wird. Freunde bei der PTU decken ihn und helfen ihm suchen. Die Gesetzeshüter gehen dabei selbst wie Verbrecher vor. Es ergeben sich immer größere Verwicklungen. Am Ende kommt es zum Showdown. Der Klappentext ist übrigens falsch, die verlorenen Waffe wird nicht für einen Mord eingesetzt.

Die ganze Geschichte spielt sich innerhalb einer Nacht in Hongkong ab. Die bedrückende Szenerie ist immer dieselbe. Die Story kommt nie richtig in Gang, ist zäh wie Kaugummi. Minutenlang sieht man beispielsweise, wie Strassen patroulliert werden oder ein Stiegenhaus erklommen wird. Actionszenen? Fehlanzeige. Man fiebert als Zuschauer nicht mit und die Figuren wirken allesamt unsympathisch. Gibt es überhaupt einen Hauptdarsteller?

Die Bildqualität ist auch für eine DVD sehr schwach, wie aus dem Internet gesaugt und komprimiert. Der Ton, DD 5.1, bietet keine besondern Effekte.

Der Preis ist zwar mit rund fünf Euronen nicht allzu hoch, wer kein Fan derartiger Filme ist, sollte sich den Kauf dennoch gut überlegen.

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