Z Storm

Z Storm (Z 風暴, 2014) — watch online a Hong Kong crime thriller about high-stakes financial corruption. ICAC investigator William Luk uncovers a scheme to manipulate the upcoming IPO of the city's government pension fund — a deal worth billions, backed by ruthless trader Malcolm Wu and enabled by a bent police superintendent.

Directed by David Lam and featuring Louis Koo and Nick Cheung, the film moves at the brisk pace Hong Kong genre cinema is built on: a righteous investigator working against a system designed to protect the powerful. What gives Z Storm a sharper edge than most cop thrillers is its subject — financial fraud rather than street crime — which makes the corruption feel closer to the real world than a gunfight would. Stream Z Storm online on iFILM.