Midnight Beating
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Midnight Beating is a 2010 Chinese film
Chinese films of the 2010s
This is a list of films produced in mainland China ordered by year of expected release in the 2010s. For an alphabetical listing of Chinese films see :Category:Chinese films-2010:-2011:-External links:*...

 directed by Zhang Jiabei and starring Hong Kong veteran actors Simon Yam
Simon Yam
Simon Yam Tat-Wah , born March 19, 1955, is a Hong Kong actor and film producer.-Background:The son of a former police officer of Shangdong heritage, his father was a Hong Kong Royal Police ship captain who was murdered by his colleague....

 and Francis Ng
Francis Ng
-Career:Like so many of Hong Kong's actors, Ng has his roots in television. He graduated from TVB's training classes in 1985. He acted in minor roles working gradually upwards in the television hierarchy, but his looks did not fit in the conventional leading man role...

.

Plot

In the Haibei People's Hospital, Qinghai province, China, the present day on the night of a full moon, a patient is murdered by a syringe through her chest. This adds stress to the hospital's heart surgeon Gu Zhensheng who had recently lost his wife Xia Xue (Liu Yuxin
Liu Yuxin
Liu Yuxin is a Chiness actress most known through her role as Gorolo Ming Yu in the 2011 Chiness series Startling by Each Step.-TV Series:* Chu Han Chuan Qi as Lady Qi * Tai Ping Gong Zhu Mi Shi as younger Wu Ze Tian...

) to an illness. Since his wife's death, Gu has been suffering from nightmares that has affected his work, and Xia Xue's younger sister, Nurse Xia Xiaoyu (Yang Yuyu) also is emotionally disturbed.

The Hospital's director Wen Miao (Li Nian) is due for an operation for a weak heart. She's the fiancee of Mai Xiangyu (Francis Ng
Francis Ng
-Career:Like so many of Hong Kong's actors, Ng has his roots in television. He graduated from TVB's training classes in 1985. He acted in minor roles working gradually upwards in the television hierarchy, but his looks did not fit in the conventional leading man role...

) the hospital's psychologist. Nurse Wu can't forgive Mai for breaking up with her and threatens to show his fiancee old photos of them having sex. One night, Wu is murdered in the same way as the old female patient. Gu tells hospital director Wen that Mai has been acting strangely lately, and Mai also tells him the same thing about Gu.

Cast

  • Simon Yam
    Simon Yam
    Simon Yam Tat-Wah , born March 19, 1955, is a Hong Kong actor and film producer.-Background:The son of a former police officer of Shangdong heritage, his father was a Hong Kong Royal Police ship captain who was murdered by his colleague....

     as Gu Zhensheng
  • Francis Ng
    Francis Ng
    -Career:Like so many of Hong Kong's actors, Ng has his roots in television. He graduated from TVB's training classes in 1985. He acted in minor roles working gradually upwards in the television hierarchy, but his looks did not fit in the conventional leading man role...

     as Mai Changyu
  • Yang Yuyu as Xia Xiaoyu
  • Yao Di as Wu Xinyiao
  • Li Nian as Wen Miao
  • Liu Yuxin as Xia Xue
  • Ba Duo as Master Hong
  • Yang Shuting as Lin Xiang
  • Li Zhaomin as Hospital director Wen
  • Zhang Feng as Liu Dahua
  • Zhao Yi as Tao Zhenyu

Release

Midnight Beating was released on December 24, 2010 in China. On its first week, Midnight Beating was the third highest-grossing film in China, being only beaten by If You Are the One 2 and Let the Bullets Fly
Let the Bullets Fly
Let the Bullets Fly is a 2010 China-Hong Kong co-production action comedy film written and directed by Jiang Wen, based on a story by Ma Shitu, a famous Sichuanese writer. The film is set in Sichuan during the 1920s when the bandit Zhang descends upon a town posing as its new mayor...

. In total, the film grossed $4,731,045 in China.

Reception

Film Business Asia gave the film a five out of ten rating, who noted that the film is an "Okay hospital horror boasts good technique but is let down by a weak script."

External links

  • Midnight Beating at Hong Kong Cinemagic
    Hong Kong Cinemagic
    Hong Kong Cinemagic, sometimes referred to as HKCinemagic, is a bilingual website providing a repository for information about Chinese language films from Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, and the people that created them. The website contains news, interviews, film reviews and a database of people,...

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