Double Dhamaal - Sanjay Dutt (2011) - Various Casino Signs, Macau

In Macau again and we are treated to some of the bright lights that front the casinos. The initial shot is of the Grand Lisboa but we also see some of the older Lisboa Hotel/Casino as well as the Rio and Pharaoh's Palace. We saw the Rio recently in Ballad of a Small Player. It's on Rua de Luis Gonzaga Gomes. My understanding (from TST Dave), is that most of the smaller "satellite" casinos, such as the Rio, have been forced to close due to recent changes in Macau's gambling laws. The hotel side of these businesses continue to operate. The Pharaoh's Palace Casino is located inside the Landmark Hotel on Fisherman's Wharf (there's a later post for that location).

View of the old/new Lisboas

Grand Lisboa

Rio

Pharaoh's Palace

Expired - Ryan Kwanten (2021) - View over the Lisboa, Macau

Another nice aerial shot, this time we are looking down upon the original Lisboa Hotel and Casino, and the great big shiny egg-shaped ground floor of the more recently built (I say recent, but it's been completed for nearly 20 years) Grand Lisboa.

Vengeance - Johnny Hallyday (2009) - Casino Lisboa, Macau

The eagle-eyed will have spotted a quick glimpse of the Lisboa casinos (both of them) in the last post, and soon the scene moves to a night time shot of the same area. Although the old Lisboa has a sort of appealing retro tack, the Grand Lisboa (in my opinion) is a massive blot on the Macau landscape. I just hate that thing.

Vengeance - Johnny Hallyday (2009) - Ponte Governador Nobre de Carvalho, Macau

The next film is Vengeance - a joint French/HK production directed by famed HK director, Johnnie To. It stars the French superstar, Johnny Hallyday (who just recently passed away in December 2017), as a former hitman who has come to Macau to exact revenge on the people that assassinated his daughter's family. It's a bit slow in places and slightly preposterous in others but overall a good story with lots of locations in both HK and Macau. It opens with a shot of a taxi driving over the Governador Nobre de Carvalho bridge towards the peninsula.

Johnny English Reborn - Rowan Atkinson (2011) - Grand Lisboa, Macau

The action briefly moves over to Macau as the two spies head off to meet their contact at the truly, TRULY tacky Grand Lisboa casino. But before we go there we also catch a quick glimpse of the original Lisboa across the road. Here it is below looking colourful and relatively subdued compared to the monstrosity that sits across the road from it.

And here is the monstrosity just mentioned. One of the true great eyesores of the Macau skyline (at least all the other tacky resort casinos have been restricted to the Cotai Strip) that I would happily see demolished.

There looks to have also been some interior filming as well, a quick google reveals that the next shot (with the tasteful gold wall) is indeed inside the building, and I assume the second picture below is as well, however, I'm having problems finding anything online to match, so it could easily be a mock up back in a studio.

Real or not?