| The Thirty Million Dollar Rush | |||||||||||||||
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| Director: | Karl Maka | ||||||||||||||
| Producer: | Karl Maka | ||||||||||||||
| Screenplay: | Karl Maka Wellington Fung Chang Kwok-tse | ||||||||||||||
| Starring: | Karl Maka Brigitte Lin Paula Tsui Eric Tsang Lau Kar-leung Angile Leung Mark Cheng | ||||||||||||||
| Music: | Alvin Kwok | ||||||||||||||
| Cinematography: | Bob Thompson Andrew Lau | ||||||||||||||
| Editing: | Tony Chow Wong Ming-lam Wong Ming-kong | ||||||||||||||
| Studio: | Cinema City & Films Co. | ||||||||||||||
| Distributor: | Golden Princess Film Production | ||||||||||||||
| Runtime: | 96 minutes | ||||||||||||||
| Country: | Hong Kong | ||||||||||||||
| Language: | Cantonese | ||||||||||||||
| Gross: | HK$13,545,285 | ||||||||||||||
The Thirty Million Dollar Rush is a 1987 Hong Kong action comedy film written, produced, directed by and starring Karl Maka. The film co-stars Brigitte Lin, Paula Tsui, Eric Tsang, Lau Kar-leung, Angile Leung and Mark Cheng.
This is a heist film, where mint employee and his newly-formed gang scheme to steal bank notes from the mint.
Fatty (Eric Tsang) is an employee at a mint, where one day, he discovers a shredding machine that crashed for a moment before resuming its operations. Because of that moment, an amount of HK$30 million of bank notes, which were meant to be shredded, survived. Discovering this secret, Fatty conspires with his friends, Tomboy (Angile Leung) and Mark Mark Cheng), to steal the money for themselves.
Seeking for professional help, the trio join forces with Baldy (Karl Maka), an ex-con recently released from prison. While discussing their plan, they were overheard by a Catholic nun, Sister Maria (Brigitte Lin), who is determined to prevent them from committing sins in order to save their souls.
Andrew Saroch of Far East Films rated the film a score of three out of five stars and calls it an "enjoyable comedy mixes the familiar ingredients of fast-paced comedy, spurts of action and thin plot, alongside a cast of welcome faces" but criticizes the film for its lack of order and some over-the-top performances.[1]
The film grossed HK$13,545,285 at the Hong Kong box office during its theatrical run from 2 to 17 July 1987.