Gen Y Cops - Edison Chen (2000) - Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Wanchai

The "Police Technology" exhibition is taking place at the HKECC, except it's not one that you will recognise because for some unknown reason the production has decided to use either CGI or a matte painting to make it look a bit more...funky?. Weird choice.

Something Good - Luca Barbareschi (2013) - Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre New Wing, Wanchai

One of Matteo's first port of calls is the office of Mr Feng (Kenneth Tsang), the rather sinister head of the company that he wants to do business with in Africa. The office, which pops up throughout the film, was in a section of the new wing of the HKCEC. There are also some scenes filmed in other parts of the centre including the one (in image 3 below) when the UN is announcing the African milk distribution contract winner.

Je l'aimais - Daniel Auteuil (2009) - Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Wanchai

Another of the very brief locations used in the film, as part of Pierre recounting his story in flashback, is the HK Convention and Exhibition Centre. This place has been part of the harbour backdrop since it was constructed in the mid-90's and is where the handover ceremony took place back in 1997. I think this may be the first time I have see the inside used for a foreign film (despite covering almost 150 overseas/foreign movies filmed in Hong Kong, there is still at least another 40 or so I have yet to source and view).

Spy Game - Robert Redford (2001) - Victoria Harbour Part 2, Hong Kong

The second sequence is one that swoops across the harbour from the opposite direction and is the sequence over which the film title is overlaid. We see the Convention Centre in the first image and the camera quickly zips by to focus at the same point that was reached in the initial sequence - in front of Elizabeth House with its Panasonic advert.

Les Anges Gardiens - Gerard Depardieu (1995) - Harbour Road, Wanchai

As Depardieu takes care of business inside the Bank of Shanghai, his pursuers watch and wait from a car parked along Harbour Road. The first view is looking east towards the Great Eagle Centre from under the pedestrian link bridge connecting Central Plaza with the Exhibition centre. The second shot is looking back the other from the same point.

Battleship - Taylor Kitsch (2012) - Bank of China Building, Central

Unfortunately for the poor people working in the BOC building, they are right in the path of the oncoming spaceship and are duly incinerated when the ship cuts the top third of the building off and sends it crashing to the street below. I seem to remember the building was in for a bit of wear and tear when the Transformers came to town a few years later.

 The remains of the ship then crash into the harbour next to the Convention Centre.

Rush Hour - Jackie Chan (1998) - Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter, Hong Kong

The initial part of Rush Hour is set in the immediate run up to the Hong Kong handover in 1997, so it's not surprising that one of the shots from the opening sequence shows us the newly completed extension to the Convention Centre, which was the venue for the Handover proceedings. That's it, centre-screen of the top picture.

The rest of the Hong Kong sequence involves the raid on a ship berthed in the typhoon shelter in Causeway Bay. It's the same location that Ratner would return to to film to yacht scene in Rush Hour 2.

There's also another angle of this area in this main opening. It's the area between the Convention Centre and the typhoon shelter but for some reason shot from further away. You can see the SIEMENS and HITACHI signs attached to the Great Eagle and Harbour Centres.

Transformers: Age of Extinction - Mark Wahlberg (2014) - HK Convention and Exhibition Centre, Wanchai

Often compared to a butterfly landing on the waterfront, the new wing of the HKCEC was built for the 1997 handover ceremony and has been seen on a few films though none I've covered here. Despite the fact that Largo Winch was filmed in and on the Grand Hyatt Hotel immediately behind (above the old wing) there's no sign of the new wing on that film. Anyway, in this film, the place gets sucked up into the hovering spaceship.