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Plot summary
IDC agent Jon is escorting a criminal scientist to another country when a member of his team turns on the convoy, shoots Jon in the head and takes the scientist. Jon wakes in a hospital to learn that the bullet cannot be removed safely and that within weeks it will leave him completely paralyzed. He goes to Beijing to see his mother, who tells him he has a brother, Man Yeung, in Malaysia, raised by his father, a gambler. Jon flies to Malaysia to find him. On the plane he meets Dr. Rachel Kan, who offers to look into treatments for his condition. When they land, Yeung tries to kidnap the doctor, and Jon, intervening, is taken hostage with her.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Viral Factor (2012)
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- The film's HK$200 million budget covered a combined $150 million insurance policy for leads Jay Chou and Nicholas Tse, and 20 bodyguards were hired to protect them during production.
- Producers borrowed airplanes from the air force, along with tanks and other equipment, to use while filming the Hong Kong-Chinese co-production.
- The traffic jam scene was filmed at Jalan Raja Chulan in Kuala Lumpur on long weekends and public holidays, chosen because fewer people would be in the city then.
