After that, "Chu bao" ("Caught in Time" in English) starts to drag. I had never heard of Zhang Jun and the robberies that he carried out in the 1990s. Hell, I didn't think it possible to carry out robberies in China; a college friend spent a summer teaching English in Shanghai and said that it's impossible to break the law due to the police everywhere. But anyway, the first part of the movie focuses more on the robberies themselves, after which the movie starts to meander.
Basically, it's the sort of movie that you watch if you want to learn about a particular story; it does an excellent job informing the viewer about that. It falls short in other respects.
Apparently, the working title was Xiànqi Pò'àn, literally "Solving the case in time", but in September 2020 the title was changed to Chúbào, literally "Getting rid of outlaws", in support of the ongoing law enforcement campaign to crack down on underworld crimes.
