Awarapan - Emraan Hashmi (2007) - Central Harbourfront

Shivam is torn between his loyalty for Malik and his sympathy for Reema, who reminds him very much of his dead girlfriend. So we get some introspection as he wanders around the harbour front by himself. The close up of Shivam was filmed on the walkway that connects the IFC to Pier 3.

7 Aum Arivu - Suriya (2011) - Two International Finance Centre

In this film, the location of the neighbouring country's security office is located in the IFC2 tower. We only have an external establishing shot for this though as the interior filmed in a studio set.

Irreversi - Mei Melançon (2010) - IFC Walkway, Central

This is the pedestrian walkway that connects the large IFC development with the Central Ferry Piers elevated walkway and Pier 3. This is where Lynda and her bestie, Kat, have a heart to heart about Lynda's marriage.

Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong - Jamie Chung (2015) - View from One IFC, Central

Here's a view from the rooftop of One International Finance Centre at the Central waterfront looking across to Tsim Sha Tsui.

Ghost in the Shell - Scarlett Johansson (2017) - International Finance Centre, Central

The IFC pops up as the entrance to the very first building where Dr Osmond is mind-hacked by the Geisha robot. We get a quick shot of Batou and the gang running across the walkway towards the entrance from the direction of the Four Seasons Hotel.

The Dark Knight - Christian Bale (2008) - View Over Central, Hong Kong

My original screencaps for this film were done from a TV screen so the quality wasn't good enough to include this rather impressive helicopter (or perhaps drone) shot over Central.

The Centre, where all the lobby shots were filmed, can be seen on the left of screen. But the buildings used for the actual office from where Batman kidnaps the crooked Chinese accountant, Lau, were the towers of the International Finance Centre. So Batman launches from 2 IFC (centre right, lower picture) and grabs Lau from the smaller IFC tower (centre screen).

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life - Angelina Jolie (2003) - International Finance Centre 2, Central

So we have supposedly gone up to the top of 2IFC - which was the tallest building in HK at the time of filming (it was usurped a few years later by ICC) - and are now about to jump off it.

The BASE jumps were for real and the crew filmed 10 of them to get the shots they needed as well as an additional 20 jumps from a helicopter to grab some of the high level wing-suit flying. Anyway, there is a great BTS video here shot by Michael Nordqvist who also filmed the high level stuff - although I have to say there are definitely a few shots that look to have been digitally manipulated in order to get the characters to do very sharp mid-air turns to avoid buildings. Still it's an impressive stunt set piece and worth looking at because it also shows us the 2IFC prior to completion.

Heading up to the top

Jumping out

In the picture above, you can see how high the jumpers had to get in the helicopter. At this point they look to be double the real height of the 2IFC and there is a small sequence in the above linked video that shows you a similar height and angle. The next picture shows the section of the wing suit flight that looks to be digitally manipulated and includes a close bypass of the BOC tower before a sharp left hand turn to avoid the Lippo Centre.

And a boat landing to finish it all off.

The Dark Knight - Christian Bale (2008) - International Finance Centre, Central

Both towers (International Finance Centre and Two International Finance Centre) feature in the next scene when Batman is preparing to launch his strike at his Chinese target. So, up to the top of 2IFC goes the Dark Knight and he jumps off and after a bit of impressive spinning and flying around, rolls up into a ball and crashes through the windows of the lower IFC1 where his target is located.

The finale of the sequence sees Batman and target being pulled out, up and away from the building by the C130 transport plane that I mentioned in the first film post here.

Of course, most of this was achieved using CGI, but there are pictures of a cabled up Christian Bale standing on a very precarious part of the building for some daytime filming (the scene is set at night so I can only assume they were using filters).

So here we are, with the second film character to leap from the top of 2 IFC (the first one was Lara Croft in case you didn't know).