Mad Mission 3 also seems to have been one of the first films to use the (then) recently decommissioned Desalination Plant at Lok On Pai. In 1984 the plant was supposedly still able to operate but had been put into "Standby"mode in 1982. That's why we can still see all the processing works in the images below as well as the inside of the main structure which still stands today. This is where Sam and the gang go to meet the Governor and CIA and are asked to help bring down the nefarious James Bond and his plot to sell the crown jewels.
For a bit of context, I've snipped an aerial view from 1982 which gives a god view of the site (credit to Tymon Mellor and his excellent
https://www.hkmaps.hk/).
Lok On Pai circa 1982
Below is the entrance road and, as you can see, it ran along next to two large oil/gas storage silos. These can be seen in the top right of the b&w image.
The next images show the area where the filming takes place at the sw corner of the site. We know this because in the last image you can see the building furthest away (with all the windows) is the one that ran south from the middle of the main structure. Obviously the interior (with the Union Jack flag) is the main structure that still stands today and has a new life as a sort of freelance sound stage (Jet Lee's scenes from
Expendables 2 was also shot in here, believe it or not).
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