Undercover officer Nick (Daniel Wu) had spent the last eight years penetrating into the core of a drug sales ring working his way up from a street dealer post to the managerial position handling cargo deliveries for Jong (Andy Lau) - the biggest player in the local heroin market. When the ailing Jong makes Nick his protégé, Nick could not but sway before money and power and starts to perform his role like a real drug trafficker.

This, together with his affair with heroin-addict Jane (Zhang Jingchu), causes Nick to becomes more and more confused about his true identity, and eventually leads to a disastrous end. Based on materials provided by retired undercover agents of the police force, "Protégé" attempts to realistically tell the story of undercover agents in the clandestine drug world, who struggle to constantly walk on the fine line between justice and crime, but who will never see the day of serving in the regular police force.

Directed by Derek Yee (One Night In Mongkok), produced by Peter Chan (Perhaps Love).

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Caught this film at Vivo yesterday..I've been dying to watch this film not becoz of Daniel Wu or Louis Koo but my all time fave, ANDY LAU! *grins*

There isn't much exciting scenes though, i guess the Director wants to focus more on the production and trafficking drugs rather than trying to make it into a typical hk police-n-theft film. I like the part where they demostrated how they produced Heroin..the process seems a lil like baking cakes, haha..with all the measuring cups, oven, trays etc.

Zhang JingChu surprises me with her good acting skills, she looks like a walking corpse after taking the drugs till at a moment i thought i was watching horror film. Her child, Jing-Jing, is so adorable..sad to see how the next generation are affected by parents who took drugs.

Heard the director has done alot of research before filming, from the harvesting of poppy plants at the Golden Triangle in Thailand, which is one of the Asia's largest opium-producing areas, to the hands of individual junkie trafficking drugs.

I didn't get enough of Andy Lau in the end, Louis Koo and Anita Yuen seems to be outcasted as well. Too much of Daniel Wu scenes, unfortunately i'm not a fan of him..I couldn't help smiling when i saw 2 scenes of the mediacorp artiste, Qi YuWu, towards the ending too. Overall i think this film is worth watching! =)