Aces Go Places - Tai Po Waterfront Park

I remember when all this was fields dust...

So, the spot where Sam Hui and Karl Maka chase (and are chased by) Robert Houston and employ exploding remote control cars. I'd already noticed buildings in the background which I was convinced were the beginnings of Tai Po Industrial Estate, but I couldn't quite work out where the road they were on was or what had been built on the vast expanse of dirt. Then, I rewatched it and saw this shot, where the hills over at Ma On Shan are clearly visible, along with the hill at Park Golf, the shoreline and the hill with The Lookout: this placed the scene firmly in Tai Po Waterfront Park.

The park isn't covered on Street View, but this Picasa image shows almost exactly the same panorama (thanks to johnny).

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Aces Go Places - Sam Mun Tsai

The location for the film's final splash is the little pier at Sam Mun Tsai on the edge of Plover Cove. You can actually see my brother's village from here; the little white specks at the base of the hill, in the centre of the Google Maps image.

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Aces Go Places - Pak Sha Wan Public Pier

The pier that Sam Hui and Karl Maka surface at, after looking for the diamonds (sorry, "peanuts")...

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Aces Go Places - Tsun Wen Road

Where Chan Sing blows himself up.

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Aces Go Places - Empire Centre

Sam Hui stands on this roof and watches Dean Shek fall into a funnel, despite the fact that it's actually between the Regal Kowloon and the sea: movies, they're just full of lies. Oh, and this is where Sylvia Chang finally catches up with Sam too. There isn't a Street View of the roof, but you get the idea from ground level and you can actually see the track which runs around the roof of the building from the satellite image on Google Maps.

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Aces Go Places - Regal Kowloon Hotel

The building that Dean Shek is suspended above and, subsequently, dropped from. He does very well to make it to one of the Star Ferry funnels...

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Aces Go Places - Kin Fung Circle

Well, I said I was working on Tuen Mun locations and I wasn't fibbing. The post Chow Tai Fook robber chase ends with Karl Maka driving over a footbridge, before coming to a sudden halt in a multi-car pile-up, just outside the Kowloon Motor Bus Depot. As you can see from the map, the footbridge has gone and that stretch of river now runs underneath Tuen Mun Station. The (striped) Mego Industrial Building next to where the footbridge was, has now become the Tomei Industrial Building, but is still very recognisable.

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Aces Go Places - Knight Street

This is the street where Sam Hui evades Sylvia Chang, with a bit of crafty bus hopping. Still, if they've run all the way from Tuen Mun (which is where I have placed Sam's apartment - still working on exact location, but I think it may have gone), then they must be knackered...

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Aces Go Places - Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Co Ltd

The jewellers where Sylvia Chang attempts to stop a robbery, only for the robbers to make an escape with Karl Maka as their reluctant getaway driver. I don't think that' the same minivan, still there after thirty years...

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Aces Go Places - Wing On Plaza

And, even though Sam Hui goes into the Tsim Sha Tsui Centre; somehow he makes his escape by crashing through the windows of the (seemingly vacant) Wing On Plaza, or 'Ocean Square' as it seems it was, back in 1982. Obviously having passed through thin air and the Kowloon Shangri-La Hotel to get there.

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Aces Go Places - Tsim Sha Tsui Centre

The building that Sam Hui slides down a wire into, in order to snatch a case of diamonds from the mafia / triads.

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