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Jiurong's body and scares her into releasing Quan from the bag. Wang inspects the dead body and realizes the lack of smell of blood and it turns out Xiang disguising as Jiurong. Xiang then suddenly receives a call from You that he is home safe (since Wang's underling was a coward) and Quan reveals to Wang that he is the true Mr. Z and holds Yan hostage with a knife. Quan tells Xiaomeng and Xiang to drive away while he stays behind and is beaten by Wang's underlings. Xiaomeng later runs back to help Quan and the two fight off Wang's underlings before Xiang also comes back when she realizes You has called the police for her. Wang then picks up Quan's knife and stabs him multiple times, but the knife turns out to be fake and the police arrive to the scene.
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US$ 30.5 million, moving up to No. 3, and have accumulated a total gross of US$ 76.4 million by then. On it fourth weekend, the film grossed US$ 20.6 million, moving up to No. 2, and have accumulated a total gross of US$ 97.2 million by then. During its fifth weekend, the film grossed US$ 15.5 million, coming in at No. 3, and gave grossed a total of US$ 112.6 million so far.
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to pose as You's astronaut father when he performs his speech at school and Quan agrees to help her and her son's speech wins the appauld from the entire school. At night, Quan and Xiang celebrate while pouring out their hearts to each other and after drinking red wine, Xiang expresses her love for
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320:black comedy
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272:Running time
252: (China)
140:Kenji Uchida
132:
82:Hanyu Pinyin
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1091:High Forces
895:Discography
890:Filmography
766:22 February
712:15 February
521:New Zealand
454:as himself.
448:as himself.
442:as himself.
333:Key of Life
276:119 minutes
204:Artown Film
146:Produced by
134:Key of Life
120:Rao Xiaozhi
112:Rao Xiaozhi
109:Directed by
1200:2021 films
1194:Categories
1019:Shock Wave
584:References
574:Box office
503:Box office
484:Sina Weibo
462:Production
452:Lei Jiayin
340:holidays.
301:Box office
259:2021-03-18
248:2021-02-12
197:Production
183:Yu Ruchang
1163:Carol Chu
995:Firestorm
517:Australia
498:Reception
480:Xiao Yang
446:Frant Gwo
407:Xiao Yang
328:Xiao Yang
286:Hong Kong
281:Countries
199:companies
191:Deng Ouge
180:Edited by
162:Xiao Yang
122:Fan Xiang
979:Jiang Hu
879:Andy Lau
547:Andy Lau
476:Andy Lau
472:Shanghai
413:Wan Qian
401:Andy Lau
350:Shanghai
324:Andy Lau
295:Mandarin
291:Language
188:Music by
175:Cao Ying
166:Wan Qian
158:Andy Lau
154:Starring
149:Andy Lau
129:Based on
124:Li Xiang
92:Jyutping
1156:Related
1067:Endgame
939:Tian Di
509:Endgame
492:Endgame
468:Endgame
440:Lu Yang
312:Endgame
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24:Endgame
1165:(wife)
1148:(2012)
1129:(2018)
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958:(2000)
950:(1997)
942:(1994)
934:(1993)
915:(2003)
542:Yahoo!
317:action
1110:(TBD)
559:Notes
513:China
284:China
768:2021
714:2021
571:See
395:Cast
344:Plot
69:人潮汹涌
53:人潮洶湧
138:by
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