LOS ANGELES, Nov 22 — Check out this trailer for The Shanghai Job, the action thriller starring Orlando Bloom that was initially released in China in September as S.M.A.R.T. Chase.

It centres on washed-up British bodyguard Danny Stratton (Bloom) who embarks on a mission to save his lady love after his convoy is ambushed and she is kidnapped as well as use the criminals involved in an elaborate plan to restore his agency’s damaged reputation.

The film also stars Lynn Hung, Simon Yam, Thomas Price, Hannah Quinlivan, Xing Yu, Lei Wu and Jing Liang.

The synopsis of the film reads: “Washed-up private security agent Danny Stratton has been reduced to low level body-guarding operations, after a botched job when a Van Gogh painting in his care was stolen. He gets a chance to restore his reputation when he’s given the rare opportunity to escort a valuable Chinese antique out of Shanghai. In the course of the mission he is ambushed, and, with the safety of the woman he loves in jeopardy, Danny has to work with his team of experts to save her, whilst also outsmarting the devious mastermind behind the heist.”

The Shanghai Job will make its US debut on Digital HD on January 29, 2018.

A screengrab from action thriller ‘The Shanghai Job’ that stars Orlando Bloom and Simon Yam.
A screengrab from action thriller ‘The Shanghai Job’ that stars Orlando Bloom and Simon Yam.