This year’s somewhat cold summer file finally ushered in a good movie “Anger: Serious Case” that can be hit at the box office.
The box office of the film went up for three days in the first weekend, with a total of 243 million yuan. Douban scored 7.7 points for fans gathering, and Maoyan scored 9.5 points for the popular ticketing platform, which is better than 99% of police, crime, and action movies. Really achieved the appreciation of both refined and popular.
The story of “Anger and Serious Case” is very simple. A young and promising policeman was cheated by a powerful boss on his knees. The brothers didn’t protect him, so he went to jail and suffered all kinds of humiliation. After coming out, he blackened and began to take revenge.
The way of telling the story of the speech is also very straightforward. Instead of creating suspense and reversal like “Bomb Disposal Expert 2”, it uses both direct narration and recollection to explain the characters’ motives straightforwardly, and then through a few heavy actions. The play stringed up the whole film, interspersed with literary play to explain the plot, to serve these action scenes, so that all the play seemed reasonable and reasonable.
Therefore, this is a very pure type of action movie. The sections in it are also bad routines used by police and robber movies. However, Chen Mushengsheng, who is good at action movies, is innovating in details and controlling the rhythm, grasping the emotions of the audience. Hi to the end. Coupled with Yen Zidan’s careful action design, the two styles are mixed, so it is a cool film that is a collection of great achievements.
For example, in the scene where the lonely hero Zhang Chongbang bravely rushed into the drug den, he wrote enough about the sense of space that Chen Musheng is good at. Yen Zidan first appeared on the roof, then entered the house, fell to the ground during a gunfight with the bandit, and then an enemy. Many groups fight, and finally chased the bandit leader into the sewer. This kind of spatial movement brings freshness to the audience’s visual experience.
Another example is the scene where the gangsters exposed, Nicholas Tse riding on a motorcycle and Donnie Yen sitting in the car, you come and I fight, the dynamic and dangerous scene makes the audience sweat, and it is easy to substitute into the situation of the characters. middle.
The final duel between good and evil is even more exciting, it can be said to be a hodgepodge of Yen Zidan’s action design. This long fight can be divided into three parts. In the beginning, Nicholas Tse’s butterfly double knives fought against Donnie Yen’s telescopic baton, which was a tribute to the classic street battle between Donnie Yen and Wu Jing in “Slaying the Wolf”. Then the two men fought hand-to-hand, using quick legs and grappling, which reminded people of the scene in “The Fuse” where Donnie Yen vs. Zou Zhaolong. The last two armed with long weapons, one with a sledgehammer and the other with an iron rod, a bit like the battle scene between Yen Zidan and Wang Baoqiang in “One Man’s Martial Arts”.
It can be said that Chen Musheng and Donnie Yen put all the essence of their past in this movie, and they become one. Of course, audiences who like Hong Kong-style action movies can enjoy it.
Three views follow the five senses
In terms of the role setting, Qiu Gangao and Zhang Chongbang are clear about the right and the evil. Zhang Chongbang is upright. Although he loves to break the rules, he never violates the bottom line and insists on justice to the end. Qiu Gangao turned out to be a righteous and promising young man, but after being blackened, he went black to the end, leaving no room for bad things.
Because of this kind of persona, Donnie Yen is in the aura of “great light and righteousness” and has relatively little room to play. His bright colors are mainly set off by the corrupt system and his superiors and colleagues. In that bureaucratic system, there are very few public servants like him who break the rules in order to do the right thing, so it is unique.
Nicholas Tse is even more brilliant in comparison. His role as Qiu Gangao is a contradiction that is teased by fate and the system, and it has changed a lot, allowing him to play to his heart’s content. Nicholas Tse, who has not acted for a long time, obviously has not lost the ability to shape characters. On the contrary, because of the growth of age and experience, his understanding of performance has become more mature. He took the sunshine and justice of this character in the early stage, and the unwillingness and despair of the character when he was betrayed, and the later stage. The anger and fierceness are all interpreted, making the characters vivid and three-dimensional.
In addition to the movie-viewing psychology, the audience can also regard him as a low-level professional person and substitute himself. I was pitted by irresponsible leaders. Something happened. I was in the wrong. The best brothers in the day didn’t save me. After I came out, I killed all these bastards. It was a very happy experience. Revenge pleasure.
Therefore, the role of Qiu Gangao has made people resent and sympathize, because he embodies the tragedy that makes the audience empathize.
And Nicholas Tse’s superb looks and personal charm over forty years have added a lot to the role. Many viewers felt that Nicholas Tse was handsome after watching this film. “The three views follow the five senses.”
Watch one less one
But that’s it. Although Nicholas Tse’s character is attractive, he obviously hasn’t reached the cult height of “Joker”, and there is still some distance from the classics.
The whole movie “Furious Cases” is also true. In addition to watching it well, it still makes some high-demand audiences unsatisfied. Frankly speaking, it also has shortcomings, because it shows a kind of familiarity from beginning to end. The craftsmanship, but lacks the literary and artistic color or the expression of the author that classic movies usually have.
Some viewers will think, if the protagonist is not so upright, if the villain is so dark, if there is more gray in the black and white contrast, if the theme of “disposable” can dig deeper, perhaps, the temperament of this movie It will be even more different.
However, the audience has to accept the fact that this is already a large-scale police and criminal film in the current film environment, and only Hong Kong movies are available, and such Hong Kong movies are also watched at one less.Return to Sohu to see more
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