Title: Line Walker
AKA: The Apostle
Genre: Crime, Action, Thriller, Police, Undercover
Episodes: 31
Broadcast
period: 2014-Aug to 2014-Oct
Cast: Michael Miu, Charmaine Sheh, Raymond Lam, Sharon
Chan, Benz Hui, Sammy Sum, Elena Kong, Oscar Leung and Toby Leung.
Cheuk Hoi (Michael
Miu) is the chief inspector of CIB and a handler for undercover cops. One
evening he gets a call from his friend and the superintendent Hong Sir, to meet
him at a rooftop in downtown Hong Kong, only to witness Hong falling of the
building. In his last breath, Hong Sir utters that there is a corrupt cop in
the police force and that Cheuk Hoi must save his five undercover agents – whom
he was a handler for.
Back at the CIB
Cheuk Hoi notices that the computers had been hacked, but fortunately the
information of the undercover agents had been deleted by Hong Sir. Unfortunately,
this makes Cheuk Hoi’s job even harder.
By luck he manages
to find one: Ting Siu Ka “Ding Jie” (Charmaine Sheh), an undercover cop working
as masseuse. She collects intel from the customers: some of them are the
girlfriends of goons.
After noticing that
she has weird friendship with a lowly goon, Sit Ka Keung “Bao Seed” (Raymond
Lam), he puts her on the task to become his underling as Hong Sirs agenda for
his five undercover cops is to catch the famous Chum Foon Fei ”Foon Hei Gor”
(Benz Hui): a mafia boss owning most of underground Hong Kong.
Now Ding Jie must
find out where her fellow UCs are, and together with Cheuk Sir keep her and the
UCS from being exposed…
It’s been a while
since I’ve watched Cantonese dramas. Generally, it is because I have low
expectations in terms of quality, which in my experience I have seen several
of. This drama however is so good and intriguing that I didn’t care. In the
first 20 episodes, I really didn’t care if things were badly made, everything
else was so good! The characters were well written, the storyline was thrilling
and the entire screenplay was believable. Yes. there was bad acting here and
there, weird “coincidences” and there were some stupid things I couldn’t get my
head around, but that didn’t ruin the overall drama. After episode 20, the drama
gets confusing a bit, yet you want to continues – kind of a charm if you will.
So, it doesn’t necessarily get bad, just unnecessarily long or ‘extended'.
I think I will
always remember Line Walker as a drama I really enjoyed, so yes, I think I
would recommend it.
☆☆☆½ / 3½ out of 5 stars
♥♥♥♥½ / 4½ out of 5 hearts
