The Bucket List - Morgan Freeman (2007) - Victoria Harbour View

Finishing up this year with another one of my "not really filmed here but posting anyway" posts. This time it is from the 2007 movie, The Bucket List, starring Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson as two terminally ill ageing men ticking things off their bucket list before they eventually croak. There is a very brief scene, supposedly set in Hong Kong, as Freeman's character is approached by an attractive member of the opposite sex as he sits and drinks in a hotel lobby.

The establishing shot for the scene is a view across the harbour at night time, as below, looking towards Central. However, the subsequent interior shots don't appear to have been filmed in Hong Kong - largely because the view out of the windows in the background suggest the hotel location is somewhere at the seaward end of Ocean Terminal. I'm not aware of any large hotels in that area with this view and obvious huge lounge space, but it is a while since I was in that location so am only 99.9% sure this time.

Anyway, suffice to say, the film's HK hotel scenes appear to have been shot in a studio (or at least a real hotel somewhere else with the Hong Kong skyline added into the background) which makes me think the harbour view in the first image is probably stock footage from somewhere.