UPDATED WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLED VERSION OF THE TRAILER.
Hong Kong action maestro Dante Lam has been given the largest budget of his career for his upcoming effort The Viral Factor and he's certainly taking advantage. Lam's latest is a continent hopping affair with boats, helicopters, cars, guns and explosions o'plenty.
A new trailer for the film has just arrived online and you can take a look below. Jay Chou and Nicholas Tse star.A mission to escort a witness from Jordan to the Netherlands leaves International Security Affairs agent Jon severely scarred: a bullet is lodged in his brain, his fiancée and fellow agent Rita is dead and their traitorous colleague Sean has nabbed their witness. While contemplating leaving the force, he finds out that his father and brother, Wan Yang, are still alive. In his search for them, he discovers that his brother is working as a mercenary for Sean, who has evil plans to force scientist Rachel to cultivate a mutating virus to unleash on the world. The brothers unite to stop Sean but finds out that he has an even bigger plan for international blackmail. The battle heads to a showdown in Hong Kong where Sean has decided to release the strain of deadly virus.
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China Lion has got this ready for release day and date in the US in January, hopefully it'll hit several big cities. they should update their facebook page when they have the release schedule
Looks great--is it in Mandarin or Cantonese? Could not tell with the small snippets of dialog here.