Expired - Ryan Kwanten (2021) - Canal Road Flyover

There are quite a few scenic shots of Hong Kong from this film, some of which have been digitally altered to appear more futuristic (i.e. had some coloured lights added), but others appear to be fairly true to reality, including this one of the Canal Road Flyover. This is the view looking north, with Times Square on the extreme right. The low rise building top centre is the Wanchai Firestation.

Hacker - Callan McAuliffe (2016) - Lockhart Road, Wanchai

One of the places we see from the taxi as the group are driven to their hotel is a quick glimpse down Lockhart Road from the vantage point of the Canal Road Flyover.

Karate from Shaolin Temple - Kazuma Kenji (1976) - Hennessy Road, Wanchai

Part of Musashi's car ride to the boss's house is done along Hennessy Road in Wanchai. The Canal Road flyover can be seen in the images below when it was still two separate flyovers, one for each lane/direction. Since then the two parts have been joined together to widen the road to allow more traffic.

Beyond Hypothermia - Jacklyn Wu Chien-lien (1996) - Times Square, Causeway Bay

When the South Korean enforcer arrives in Hong Kong, he is met in one of the Times Square offices by some local contacts who provide him with some weapons. The scene starts off with a view out towards Happy Valley and Morrison Hill Road/Canal Road Flyover.

Strangers - John Simm (2018) - Canal Road Flyover, Causeway Bay

Here's a view of Canal Road which looks to me as though it was probably shot from the top of VPoint, a location I covered a few posts ago. You can just see the side of Times Square on the left of the shot. The old building occupying centre stage is the Wing Tak building, built in 1972.

Foxbat - Henry Silva (1977) - Hennessy Road, Wanchai

More of the car chase as the ambulance heads down Hennessy Road before making the left hand turn into Canal Road West underneath the flyover. Note that all the buildings along here have been replaced. Not a single pavement column remains as far as I am aware.

Boarding Gate - Asia Argento (2007) - Gloucester Road, Wanchai

Another shot taken from a pedestrian bridge, this time one over Gloucester Road that runs alongside Marsh Road just before the Canal Road flyover/interchange (actually, it looks like it's called the Wanchai Interchange on the maps). The bus on the right is on the flyover. This shot is looking east with the high rises of North Point in the background. 

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life - Angelina Jolie (2003) - Hennessy Road, Wanchai

Busy street scenes like this one can be really tough to locate, but sometimes a clue pops up that helps narrow down the search a little bit. In this case it's a combination of the flyover in the background and the presence of the trams and #681 bus route from Central to Ma On Shan.

Actually, just hidden away on the right hand side of the screen is also the Wing On Jewellery Store which was still visible the last time the Google Streetview car drove past this area.

Largo Winch - Tomer Sisley (2008) - Car Chase - various Locations around Hong Kong

The car race back to HK Island takes in a fair amount of territory, some of it makes sense, some of it doesn't. I've included them all in one post because I don't think many of them are worthy of a single post.

Of course, we have just left Sunny Bay and are now racing along the Lantau Link back towards Kowloon and Hong Kong, so it's no surprise to see that the Tsing Ma Bridge makes a brief appearance. Well actually, the top picture shows the lesser known Kap Shui Mun bridge which spans the gap between Ma Wan and Lantau Island. You can tell the difference by the fewer number of crossbars across the uprights.

Coincidentally, just a few days ago the Kap Shui Mun bridge was struck by an illegally travelling Chinese registered ship that was too high to make it under the span. The top of the ship hit the underside of the span and caused a rather unprecedented shutdown of the only road and rail link in and out of the airport. The place was crippled for several hours and it almost reminded me of being back in the UK for a moment when a small amount of snow falls on the roads, or the wrong kind of leaf falls on a railway track.

Anyway, it seems the bridge is fine but the news that came out of it (news for me at least) is that there is currently an undersea tunnel being constructed from Tuen Mun to Lantau - no doubt it is being created for the purpose of linking up with the HK-Macau-Zhuhai bridge under construction, but the added benefit being that things won't grind to a halt if some crazy dude decides top crash his boat into one of the bridges.

Moving on and all of a sudden we see a brief shot of Sai Ying Pun implying the car is now racing along this part of HK Island. I guess he must've taken the Western Harbour Tunnel because that small funny looking blue building in the bottom of the screen grab is in fact one of the ventilation buildings for said tunnel. Here is where Google's new 3D view of HK can be useful, because I have been able to match the angle. The quality of the rendering in Google is pretty good.

The new development you can see at the bottom of the Google 3D view is the Sun Yat Sen memorial Park which opened in 2010 - a couple of years after filming.

Next up is where the geography goes a bit awry and we see Largo's car speeding eastwards along Gloucester Road in Wanchai. You can see the brown curved facade of the Luk Kwok Hotel on the left.

Just when you thought things were getting confusing, we then get another aerial view, this time of the Canal Road flyover back in Causeway Bay at the other end of Wanchai. Again, the Google 3D allows a fairly good recreation of the camera angle for no useful reason other than because I like doing it.