"Preach in the text." --Tang Tears"
This movie should not be classified as a Hong Kong film.
However, given that Aaron Kwok is the biggest card among them, it is still discussed by Hong Kong Film.
It is taiwanese director Lian Yiqi's third feature film.
The director has loved comics and Hong Kong films since he was a child, and Hou Xiaoxian's "City of Sorrows" has caused a terrifying wave in the film world, and his history teacher asked students to watch it on weekends, and as a result, he ran to watch "Gamble Saint" and "Little Devil Is Home".
Therefore, this remake adaptation of "Breaking the Game" has lost the cold and dark style of the original version.
Instead, it has a hint of black humor.
The quality of the film is actually not bad.
From story adaptation, actor performance to mirror editing, they are all sincere and quite standard.
However, Douban scored 6.2, and the mainland box office was only less than 70 million, at least as a commercial film, the box office was quite a failure.
The movie is not really a bad movie, and the entertainment is quite strong.
The problem may have begun when the film was renamed.
The title of the film that came out at the beginning of filming was "The Perpetrator", which felt more appropriate than the original "To the End".
Because the story begins with an accidental car accident.
Later, the director may have a literary and artistic attack, changed it to "Breaking the Game", or wanted to express a feeling that the fish were struggling in the net.
The movie poster is extremely tough guy collision meaning, two large men, cold eyes, muscle knots, more gun to the opposite, this is clearly the "riot" or "Storm" kind of police and bandit war meaning.
But who would have thought that this director would play a cold humor for everyone?
The box office waterloo of many Chinese films actually comes from the wrong board of finished films and publicity.
There are countless films in history that have been taught up on this issue.
Of course, another reason is that Tianshi encountered the strongest "Wolf Warrior 2" in history, another opponent of the same file, "Kill the Wolf, Greedy Wolf", which is the tough guy police bandit with the meaning of the poster of "Breaking the Game", and a documentary "Twenty-two" that has come out of the long line of word-of-mouth.
In such a slot situation, "Breaking the Game" is actually not unjust.
But contrary to the box office failure, it was Aaron Kwok's performance.
This film and "Peerless" began to shoot on the front and back feet, and after the release of "Peerless", many people were surprised by Aaron Kwok's strong acting ability.
But in fact, his transformation has not stopped.
We tried to review his path from "Three Forks".
The movie "Three Forks" helped him to win the first Golden Horse Film Emperor, relying on the stunning and dazzling emotional tension, but the overall feeling is still slightly tense, in fact, this is the actor's immature performance. In "Father and Son", under the guidance of Tan Jiaming, he was reborn and transformed into Zhuang Jinma with an unmatched performance, and this film was completely blameless from beginning to end, from head to toe, and was directly included in the personal top work.
Next is the "C+ Detective" that many people like, but Aaron Kwok had more small expressions at the time, and then jumped in "Silver Empire" and began to have a pressure performance, and then the eye play of "Wind and Cloud 2" was very different from the first one.
The movie "The Murderer" can be talked about alone.
Many people see it as a god-level performance in Aaron Kwok's career, but this film is really just a stepping stone for him.
The performance of the whole film is just a kind of technical exploration and polishing for him.
If you look closely, you will find the explosion of "Three Forks", the force field in "Father and Son" and the suspense of "C+ Detective", and when these experiences are fused, it becomes his strength in "Murderer".
For actors, the fusion of past experience is more important than the stunning performance of a scene.
In the 10s, he accidentally lost his hand once.
It is the science fiction theme of "Whole City Alert", although it is a commercial film, it also shows that he has not yet entered a real period of stability.
But he immediately soared with two works in a row, namely Gu Changwei's "Favorite" and Yan Hao's "One Hundred Years of Floating City".
When you meet a famous guide, you will shine brightly.
In fact, it has fully demonstrated the horror of his understanding.
Then there are the two "Cold Wars", "Journey to the West" and "Treading Blood in Search of Plums" and "Taoist Down the Mountain", although in addition to "Treading Blood and Finding Plums", there has not been any awards for praise, but the beating of acting ability has approached the extreme.
After the first golden statue, his mentality has also quietly changed.
So we can see that in this "Breaking the Game", the rhythm and sense of proportion of his performance are perfected to the extreme.
This point will be very clear from observing his rivalry with Wang Qianyuan.
Wang Qianyuan's performance in the previous "Rescue Mr. Wu" was precise, stunning and unmatched, but in this "Breaking the Game", the opponent play with Aaron Kwok seemed like madness, which was a matter of proportion.
There was also a windfall, Aaron Kwok opened his humorous play with this play.
And now a black humor movie "Temporary Weapon Robbery" that is currently being filmed is likely to break the ice of the new drama road.
The foreshadowing may be this "Breaking the Game".
The film is for Aaron Kwok.
Like the 1995 album Memo, all the preparations have been completed, and it is the eve of the success of the singing.
The same is true of Breaking the Game.
All the results are not accidental.