联合国反罪恶组织探员米奇因一次行动失误,拍档被杀而陷于自责之中,其上司尼克为了挽回米奇的自信心,特别派遣美艳动人的特务莎比,与他一起调查名画“午夜之眼”的失窃案。怎料案件背后原来隐藏着另一个惊世大阴谋,二人于是假扮夫妻,不惜千里迢迢远赴香港企图阻止事件发生。可惜事与愿违,二人身份被揭穿,危机一触即发……究竟米奇能否重拾昔日雄风,击破这个大阴谋?而他与莎比的关系又会否弄假成真?。The subtitle of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s first feature, from 1965, “Only Violence Helps Where Violence Reigns,” suggests the fierce political program evoked by their rigorous aesthetic. The pretext of the film, set in Cologne, is Heinrich Böll’s novel “Billiards at Half Past Nine,” which they strip down to a handful of stark events and film with a confrontational angularity akin to Bartók’s music that adorns the soundtrack. The subtlest of cues accompany the story’s complex flashbacks. The middle-aged Robert Fähmel tells a young hotel bellhop of persecutions under the Third Reich| his elderly father, Heinrich, an architect famed for a local abbey, recalls the militarism of the First World War, when his wife, Johanna, incurred trouble for insulting the Kaiser. A third-generation Fähmel is considering architecture, just as the exiled brother of Robert’s late wife, returns, only to be met by their former torturer, now a West German official taking part in a celebratory parade of war veterans. Straub and Huillet make the layers of history live in the present tense, which they judge severely. The tamped-down acting and the spare, tense visual rhetoric suggest a state of moral crisis as well as the response—as much in style as in substance—that it demands.。