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The Bullet Vanishes

The Bullet Vanishes

Aug 14, 2012
108 min
ActionMystery
6.4/ 10
76 votes

Overview

One rainy night in an arms factory near Shanghai, a young female worker accused of stealing a box of bullets from the ruthless Boss Ding is violently killed in a game of Russian roulette. Half a month later, a series of inexplicable deaths takes place in the factory, where the victims are shot but no bullets are found. Rumors of a deadly curse begin to spread in the factory, terrorizing the workers there. So, eccentric police inspector Song Donglu and his hot-blooded, gunslinging partner Guo Zhui are sent in to investigate the mystery of the phantom bullets...

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TMDB
6.4/10
76 votes
IMDB
6.5/10
2,348 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
92%
Tomatometer
Metacritic
M
65/100
Metascore

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Box Office & Budget

Budget$12,000,000Production cost
Box Office$1,528,580Worldwide gross
Profit-$10,471,420Loss
ROI
-87.3%Return on investment
US Box Office$117,629Domestic earnings

Awards & Nominations

4 wins & 18 nominations total

Details

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Status

Released

Original Language

zh

Budget

$12,000,000

Revenue

$1,528,580

Production Companies

The Vanished CollectionJCE Movies

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