A World Without Thieves shows that China, in terms of mass market films, makes great steps. Indeed, the movie stages Andy Lau Tak-Wah and Rene Liu as a thieves couple on the verge of breaking up. She wants to drop everything and live a normal life but he, who considers himself as a master, just can't make his mind to quit the life he loves so much. The couple while getting on a train meets the young Dumbo (Wang Bao-Qiang), a naif guy who goes back to his homeland with his savings in order to get married. As he thinks that sending his money by post is too expensive, he decides to travel with it ; exasperated that his friends blame him for that, he challenges anyone getting on this train to steal his money in order to prove to his friends that he doesn't have to fear anything. Wrongly, because he thus attracts the interest of Andy Lau who find this insulting to his art, but also of a group of thieves led by Ge You also getting on the train. The thieves are going to confront each other in order to know who deserves to steal the money. |