Caught in Time

Caught in Time

One final chase.

Directed by Lau Ho-Leung

Produced by Emperor Motion Pictures, Lian Ray Pictures

202095 min6.5 / 10

A tense, procedural crime thriller built on cat-and-mouse escalation between a detective and a charismatic gang leader, grounded in 1990s real-world heist methodology.

Based on real life events from the 1990s, a ruthless gang manages to pull off several high risk – high reward heists, meticulously planned out and executed over nearly a decade. When a police detective thinks he's figured out their pattern, the head of the gang starts to openly taunt him, resulting in a race to the ultimate showdown between cops and robbers.

Questions people ask

  • Is Caught in Time scary? Yes. More frightening than 82% of films.

  • Is Caught in Time violent? Yes. More violent than 80% of films.

  • Is Caught in Time easy watching? Not especially. Less comforting than 74% of films.

  • Does Caught in Time end with hope? Not especially. Less hopeful than 63% of films.

  • Is Caught in Time sad? Not especially. Less sad than 59% of films.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

38/ 100

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Love45

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