Eternity - Elliot Travers (2013) - Tsim Sha Tsui Waterfront

More soul searching as Manning ponders his future along the Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront. In this image the top of Central Plaza has been mysteriously lopped off and some "futuristic" lights have been added. 

Eternity - Elliot Travers (2013) - Gage Street, Central

A brief shot of Manning as he wanders his home town pondering whether or not to partake in the transference program. This shows the top end of Gage Street at the junction with Cochrane Street and Lyndhurst Terrace.

Eternity - Elliot Travers (2013) - Exchange Square, Central

The Police HQ is located in "The Forum" in Exchange Square. You won't recognise it these days, though, because not long after this film was made, the building (previously a small mall) was redeveloped into an office building occupied by Standard Chartered. It doesn't look like this anymore and instead is a sort of skewed glass cube.

Eternity - Elliot Travers (2013) - YMCA Salisbury, Tsim Sha Tsui

In another flashback we watch Manning being given an ultimatum by his boss - do the transference program or forget about any future promotions. This scene was filmed on the roof top of the south block of the YMCA Salisbury in TST. Look carefully and you can see some digitally added skyscrapers in the background.

Hong Kong skyline, with some additions

Eternity - Elliot Travers (2013) - Queen's Road Central

A flashback scene, showing us how Manning's wife (Amy Tsang) was desperately against him entering the "Transference" program, was shot on Queen's Road Central. A hundred metres or so up from the junction with Pedder Street. There is also a later shot of him and family walking along next to the junction with Wyndham Street (last image below).

Eternity - Elliot Travers (2013) - Central Piers

This next film is another story that shares common ground with the recently looked at Expired. Both are low-budget, antipodean sci-fi productions that use Hong Kong for its "futuristic" ambience but you end up wondering why they bothered coming here given the general use of not-particularly futuristic locations. Of course, that might just be my perception of Hong Kong from living here for 20+ years.

This film is about a detective, Richard Manning (Elliot Travers) who inadvertantly messes up a case when a hacker he is interrogating commits suicide right in front of him. To make up for his mistake, Manning is given the opportunity (along with a bunch of other peeps in similar circumstances) to partake in "Transference": a cutting edge technology that allows the user to be beamed into a computer simulation in order to solve a crime. The winner, the first one to solve it, is released from the computer simulation and can continue their career. The losers must remain. Although it doesn't mention what happens after. Once inside, however, a virus takes over the system causing it to endlessly loop and the only escape is to solve the crime before the next memory wipe and reboot!

The story is marred by extremely poor acting, and a script trying to be far too clever for its own good. You do wonder, like with Expired, why the crew bothered coming to Hong Kong to film when it features so little and adds nothing to the story. Far better are the New Zealand locations which, I believe, include the Two Paddocks wine estate of the recently late, and very great, Sam Neill (R.I.P).

Anyway, the opening scene starts with the botched interrogation and the police are operating out of an unnamed futuristic city that Hong Kong provides the backdrop for. This view looks to be the one from the (currently closed) walkway that connected the IFC Mall with the ferry piers. It's currently decommissioned as another architecturally-dubious mall development - Central Yards - is constructed along the waterfront.