Aces Go Places V: The Terracotta Hit

Aces Go Places V: The Terracotta Hit

Year: 1989

Runtime: 103 mins

Language: Cantonese

Director: Lau Kar-Leung

ComedyActionCrime

Two friends who own an investment firm turn to a policeman friend for help when they are framed for robbery by a gang of antiquities smugglers.

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1

Thailand mission ends in a split

King Kong and Baldy team up for a mission in Thailand to kidnap a woman on her way to marry a wealthy man. The operation goes sour, forcing the two to part ways and pursue their own paths. The fallout marks the end of their partnership as the Aces.

1986 Thailand
2

Stolen artefacts spark the heist controversy

Three years after the Thailand mission, pictures surface showing the Terracotta Army figures and the Qin Excalibur sword being stolen during transport to a Hong Kong exhibition. The media exposure leads officials to accuse Kong and Baldy of masterminding the heist. The two men become wanted as the case dominates headlines.

1989 Hong Kong
3

Kong and Baldy on the run in Hong Kong

Kong runs an investment company that is deeply in the red, while Baldy hides on a Sai Kung houseboat to avoid creditors. Both are desperate to clear their names and survive financially.

1989 Sai Kung, Hong Kong
4

Chinese Rambo surfaces to reopen the case

The MSS operative Chinese Rambo visits Baldy and King Kong separately, with indirect approval from the Hong Kong Police Force. They decide to find those who framed them to clear their names.

1989 Hong Kong
5

New Aces revealed

They discover a brother-sister duo calling themselves the New Aces took the photos and wore masks resembling Kong and Baldy. They interrogate them inside Baldy's houseboat, but the siblings escape into the water as the houseboat is towed by a Chinese ship.

1989 Baldy's houseboat, Sai Kung
6

Beijing prison camp

All four Aces are sent to Beijing prison camp to answer for the crime. They are forced to undergo a staged execution.

1989 Beijing prison camp
7

Rambo offers escape in exchange for help

The Chinese Rambo offers them a chance to get out of prison in exchange for helping recover the figures. They accept the offer and prepare to undertake the mission.

1989 Beijing prison camp
8

Training begins

They begin martial arts training as Beijing orders that the figures must not be damaged. The training is designed to equip them for a careful retrieval.

1989 Beijing
9

Diplomatic route considered, but the plan continues

The Chinese Rambo calls off the training, explaining that the government will pursue the figures through diplomatic means. Despite this change, the Aces decide to press ahead with the mission.

1989 Beijing
10

Battle at the White Gloves hideout

A fierce battle erupts inside the White Gloves' hideout, and the Chinese Excalibur is used during the fight. The quartet successfully recovers the stolen figures.

1989 White Gloves hideout
11

Shipment back to China secured

With the figures recovered, Kong, Baldy, and the New Aces join the Hong Kong police in coordinating the shipment back to China. The operation concludes as the artefacts are safeguarded for delivery.

1989 Hong Kong

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