Gordon Chan ( Painted Skin) reinvents the legendary constables from Wen Ruians best-selling wuxia novel series The Four as crime-fighters with superpowers! In his big-budget, big-screen retelling co-helmed with Janet Chun ( The Jade & the Pearl), the filmmaker boldly breaks the originals boundaries & merges martial arts, detective mystery, & even fantasy elements into a new breed of wuxia movies. Veteran actor Anthony Wong ( White Vengeance) leads the cast as the wise mentor to the heroic quartet played by Crystal Liu (A Chinese Ghost Story), Ronald Cheng ( Mr. Cinema), & Mural duo Deng Chao & Collin Chou. Jiang Yiyan, Cheng Taishen, Wu Xiubo, Sheren Tang, & Waise Lee join the effects-laden period blockbuster, which already has two sequels in the making!
The counterfeit currency case is causing a heated rivalry between the law-enforcing bureau in the imperial capital called the Six Doors, & the Emperors secret service known as the Divine Constabulary. Headed by Lord Bu (Cheng Taishen), the Six Doors sends constable Cold Blood (Deng Chao) to infiltrate Zhuge Zhengwos (Anthony Wong) Divine Constabulary, where he meets Zhuges disciples Merciless (Crystal Liu) & Iron Fist (Collin Chou), & fellow new recruit Lightfoot (Ronald Cheng). Entangled romantically between Merciless & the mysterious beauty Ji Yaohua (Jiang Yiyan), Cold Blood goes undercover at the Divine Constabulary & discovers a shocking conspiracy to overthrow the empire...