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 Along with the otherwise disappointing Sons of the Neon Night, the long-awaited Back to the Past, another high-profile Hong Kong film that earned its infamous "urban legend" reputation due to its extensive post-production process, has finally been released to the public. It has been a long wait for this passion project of Louis Koo, which he originally conceived between 2013 and 2014, before his company One Cool Film Production acquired the rights in 2017. Presented as a sequel to the 2001 40-episode TVB television series A Step into the Past, which marked the last time Koo acted on television before deciding to focus primarily on boosting his film career, the film takes place nearly two decades after the events of the series. Having recently revisited the series, here's a summary of what happened: Hong Siu-Lung (Louis Koo) is a Hong Kong G4 unit inspector in the present day who agrees to travel back in time via a specially constructed time machine under the supervision ...