This year's summer file is relatively deserted due to various turbulences, except for the 3 billion animation dark horse "Nezha", there is almost no impressive hit.
However, recently, there is a Hong Kong film that also has the possibility of becoming a dark horse, after all, the previous work in 2016 was 600 million box office, which is also a small dark horse, it is "Apostle Walker".
But can "Acts 2: Spy Operation" be like the previous part, and the summer file can kill a road?
1
From the story, the first part of "Acts of the Apostles" has already finished the plot, and there is no potential for a sequel.
So how to shoot the second part?
A new chapter, of course. The actor inherits the upper part, Zhang Jiahui, Gu Tianle, Wu Zhenyu three male protagonists are in, but the characters, stories, settings, are completely different.
Acts 2 is brought by Lu Tianle and Slag Hui, and is a new version of the ship that you haven't experienced before. From the first part to catch the internal ghost, it was directly carried out into a global anti-terrorism operation.
Zhang Jiahui, Gu Tianle and Wu Zhenyu are police officers in different departments. But there are black police officers in the police system, members of terrorist groups, and there may be ghosts in the three of them.
As a hacker, the heroine invades the terrorist organization system, gets the plan and personnel distribution of the terrorist organization, and the terrorists want to arrest her.
Of course, he was rescued by Zhang Jiahui, but he knew that he had to go to Burma, and the hard disk information was there.
So the superior sent Zhang Jiahui and Gu Tianle to Burma to find a hard disk, and Wu Zhenyu sat in the headquarters to command.
Myanmar got the hard disk and found that the hard disk was not important at all. The heroine locked the terrorist system, and her iris was the only way to unlock it, and she was important.
Zhang Jiahui performs a secret mission, carries a hard disk, and kidnaps the heroine missing. Gu Zai was kidnapped into a terrorist group as a child and is now coerced by his daughter.
So Gu Zai represented the terrorist group, and Zhang Jiahui began a duel in Spain on behalf of the police.
The story of the movie is very simple, there are two important suspense, one is who the childhood lost brothers were abducted by the terrorist group, and the other is who is the black police officer in the police force, of course, the two are actually a problem.
So this bit of suspense is really not enough to see, and in the second half it is too easy to guess, it is difficult to watch it. Every crack is too easy.
The terrorists planted three bombs in Hong Kong, cracked them after talking, and by the way, they also found the terrorists' old dens. Then the police descended and raided the villain leader. The person who thought it was the BOSS casually took the bento.
Instead, a thug next to him finally confronted Zhang Jiahui and Gu Tianlecheng.
The fight scene at the end is more casual, the protagonist is seriously injured and wants to fall to the ground, and if he wants to resist, even if he is shot, he is fierce.
There are also two protagonists who can't die, and finally they make a big fuss and lift the killer up and crash it on the bull's head. What is this confusing action scene? Is it difficult for the cow to be the C position of the movie?
2
"Acts" traces back to the roots, the most classic is definitely the 2014 TVB drama, and the Hong Kong drama is also a high score.
Director Wen Weihong took advantage of the success of the series and made a film version, which is the first one.
The biggest feature of "Acts" is the crazy reversal, the police are all black police, and the gangsters are all undercover. The film inherits this, although sometimes it is more forced to reverse, but the reversal is enough, and it is hard enough to look wonderful.
The second one favored action movies and abandoned this. Gu Tianle's undercover identity in the middle of the clear, Zhang Jiahui only said that I was an undercover 6 years ago, the undercover reversal thing, gone.
But in addition to the slot-filled protagonists who kill the villain with the help of special effects cattle, the action scenes are quite exciting, and there are many gun battles, explosions, and flying cars.
The three male protagonists are not young, and it is not easy to perform this kind of action scene.
Especially Gu Zai, according to his words, action director Qian Jiale must also "find a real car to crash and hit him to be happy." ”
Almost all the action scenes are downtown, and the difficulty of scheduling is not low. In addition to Hong Kong, there are also Myanmar and Spain.
Of course, action scenes set in exotic countries are not uncommon, but it is relatively novel to integrate the location and action scene content together.
Like Yangon, Myanmar, which was first opened to foreign film crews, the film designed a road near the landmark Sule Pagoda and designed a road in the car.
In Spain, the local grand festival of the Bull Run festival was made into a main paragraph of the action scene.
What is The Running of the Bulls? It is 6 bulls, chasing hundreds of big men through the city. "Acts 2" puts the car chase in this big scene, of course, it is a spectacle.
But the cattle of the Running Of the Bulls festival are a bright spot and a failure. At the end of the trance, the cow is noisy and dominates, and becomes the protagonist, which is a bit embarrassing. Not to mention that the special effects about cattle are not so strong.
3
The biggest expectation of Acts 2 is undoubtedly on the lineup. But unfortunately, in a sense, the film also has a lineup and a lineup of failures.
Zhang Jiahui, Gu Tianle, Wu Zhenyu, is this lineup strong?
Strong, one of the best in Hong Kong films, the acting skills are blameless. Their appearance, described by the very hot word "ace lineup", is most appropriate.
But look closely, what do you see?
The traces of time, their age is not small.
The brilliance of this generation of male stars is too great, and hong Kong films are these few people back and forth, and there is no new generation that can get a similar level of recognition.
Just like the best actor of the 38th Hong Kong Film Awards, the nominated actors are all around 50 years old and have a familiar face.
This is exactly the mirror of the whole Hong Kong film. Hong Kong films, along with the actors, stopped at that era and continued to repeat, but in fact, they are irresistibly aging.
Acts 2 is about brotherhood, and it's true that feelings are true. "The True Colors of Heroes" inherits the brotherhood and is called the core of Hong Kong films.
But the brotherhood of Acts 2, more like an added element, is too deliberate.
When the feelings are all formulas and spices that can be added or subtracted, no matter how good the acting skills, it is difficult to cover up the pale scrawled grass of the emotional drama, full of routines.
This kind of story has nothing to do with the first one, but seeing that the first word-of-mouth box office is good, it will take advantage of the chase and rush to make a series of assembly line products, not only "Acts 2".
It can be said that "Chasing Dragons 2" and "Sweeping Drugs 2" are the same, the lineup is strong enough, the action scenes are quite new, but the script story is completely perfunctory.
Acts 2 isn't too bad, but it's still a long way off being a good movie. It is a pity to eat it tastelessly and abandon it.
If you rush to the golden lineup, Hong Kong film feelings, action scenes are exciting, you can go to the theater to see. But the premise is that expectations cannot be too high.
Stuck in the same level of screenwriting and story, with the same action design to add some innovation, the same Hong Kong mesozoic male star, acting in the same routine, is the same Status quo of Hong Kong films.
Acts 2 is a movie, but it's not a microcosm of a Hong Kong film. Hong Kong films want to regain their former glory, but relying on this old hand, can they play new ideas?