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Director: Du Qifeng

Screenwriter: Julien Carbon/Laurent Courtiaud/Qiu Naihai

Starring: Andy Lau/Liu Qingyun/Yoyo Mung/Li Zixiong/Xu Shaoxiong/Lin Xue/Huang Zhuoling/Lin Weijian/Luo Yongchang.

Type: plot/action/crime

Country of manufacture: Hong Kong

Language: Cantonese

Release date: 1999-09-23

Duration: 93 minutes

Also known as: negotiator (Taiwan Province)/Time is running out.

Thief Zhang Cheng (Andy Lau) learns that he has only four weeks left in his life and decides to avenge his father who died at the hands of mafia boss (Li Zixiong). So, he carefully designed, robbed the finance company next to the mafia boss's transportation company, and took hostages to attract a senior negotiator He Shangzhi (Liu Qingyun) who changed jobs because of offending his superiors.

In the process of pursuing Zhang's inheritance, He Shangzhi gradually realized that the mafia boss actually used the transportation company to illegally smuggle jewelry, so he turned his enemy into his friend and joined hands with the mafia forces to play a game of wits. However, in the process of escaping from He Shangzhi, Zhang Inheritance got to know the girl Liang Wanting (played by Yoyo Mung) by accident, and got a romantic love at the end of her life.