Audiences who understand the Spring Festival slot will surely find that in this period of the most fierce competition in the Chinese film market every year, especially in recent years, there will always be a dark horse that exceeds the pre-screening expectations of both box office and word-of-mouth.
This year's surprise dark horse that can make the audience shine, I bet it will be "This Killer Is Not Calm".
It must be said that before watching the film, I did not expect this film to be so funny, and I even laughed a little dizzy during the movie, which is not a metaphor, but "This Killer Is Not Calm" really made me laugh to the point of dizziness.
As a single seedling of this year's Spring Festival family comedy genre films, "This Killer Is Not Calm" can definitely be said to be the choice that best fits the festive atmosphere.
The first thing that attracted me to "This Killer Is Not Calm" was the male protagonist Wei Xiang.
From the coach of three mouths and a pig in "The Richest Man in Xihong City", to the village chief who said Russian Chinese flavor in "Ma Liang" in "My Hometown and Me", to the plastic Mandarin in "Hello, Li Huanying" last year, other actors could not help but laugh many times.
It can be said that every appearance of Wei Xiang on the big screen before was a highlight moment.
Not to mention that in the field of drama and sketches, he has long been praised by the industry and the audience as a golden supporting role.
Finally, Wei Xiang ushered in his first male protagonist work, "This Killer Is Not Too Calm" did not disappoint, it was time for Wei Xiang to stand up!
At the beginning of the film, the legendary killer Karl played by Allen appeared with a powerful aura, and the people who did not talk much went to the roof to attack Harvey, a gangster played by Chen Minghao, who did not expect to be handsome for 3 minutes, and became the first big hilarious point in the film.
The yin and yang mistakes led Harvey to mistakenly believe that the actress Milan (played by Mary) who he had been pursuing knew Carl, and Milan came up with a bad idea to find someone to play Carl in order to escape Harvey's clutches.
After all, Carl, as a top killer, knows what he looks like and has become a thing of the past.
In this way, the male protagonist Wei Xiang, played by Wei Xiang, successfully entered the vision of Milan.
As a veteran dragon set who loves to add drama to himself, Wei Chenggong has always had a dream of being an actor, looking forward to his efforts and seriousness being discovered by Bole one day.
What he didn't expect was that the first time he met BoLe, he needed to fake the scene and really do it, and he was the only one who thought that the camera was hiding in some corner to shoot his every move.
The dragon set actor plays the top killer without his knowledge, and all the gangsters around him think he is real.
Such a setting is difficult to think of as funny!
Since Wei Chenggong began to play Carl, my laughter has basically not stopped, not because I don't want to stop, but because I can't stop at all!
Wei Chenggong met Harvey for the first time, and one person controlled the whole scene to scare all the gang members into a stunned, which can be said to be the most hilarious passage I have seen in a domestic comedy movie since the beginning of the epidemic.
At least that's what I thought at the time.
Unfortunately, this "most hilarious" evaluation did not last long, and was surpassed by a later paragraph in which Wei was successfully taken to trade arms with Italian gangsters.
If I still laughed at the image in the previous paragraph, then I really can't think about this paragraph so much, and the laugh is called a reckless.
After the operation, the gang members said that the man was too dangerous.
Milan, played by Ma Li in the film, also has a laugh point every time she appears, such as sleeping on her side in a noblewoman-like posture, but making a purring sound like Zhang Fei, etc. This time she really completely returned to the comfort zone, and also made me comfortable as an audience.
Chen Minghao, who has a very eye-catching performance in the dark horse of the 2021 Lunar New Year file "Fame and Fame", is funny with a serious acting skill in "This Killer Is Not Calm", and the contrast is laughing and the fruit explodes.
For example, after he was successfully kidnapped by Wei in the film, Wei Chenggong, who was robbed of the gun, took out the "killer weapon" - the brain melon collapse, and Harvey said with a little trepidation in his majesty: "I don't believe you will kill me." ”
Although Allen does not play much in the film, as the real Carl also has his place must be hilarious, which can be called the tragic responsibility of the whole film.
Some people may have discovered that the hilarity of "This Killer Is Not Calm" is not achieved by piecing together strips, but by excellent theatrical structure and the hard performance of the actors.
The film reflects a high-level comedic texture everywhere, whether it is lighting or setting, it has a rather stylized stage drama texture, which can be seen in the pursuit of the creators in audiovisual.
The film is not only constantly laughing, the shadow terrier is never stopped, after all, Wei Chenggong is a dragon set actor design, the imitation of classic movies is very common for him, this love for movies can also make people see that Wei Chenggong really wants to be an actor rather than a star.
In the film, there is a spoof of the classic style of Marlon Brando in "The Godfather", Wei Chenggong even found a cat to restore the character, and as a result, after the white cat named Rhubarb accidentally lost, he had no choice but to temporarily find a hedgehog to replace it.
There are also pure tributes that imitate the passages of "Song in the Rain", and the pleasant mood of Wei Chenggong's dance is also quite similar to that in the original film, and it is natural that he chose this method to release emotions at this moment.
The film also pays tribute to many film and television classics such as "Pulp Fiction" and "Shanghai Beach", and one of my favorites is that the film uses songs full of film feelings such as Xu Guanjie's "Genius Idiot Dream" in the passage where Wei Chenggong was frustrated, which can be seen from it that "This Killer Is Not Calm" is a high-quality work that a group of people who really love movies and love comedy sincerely bring to the audience.
In addition to making people laugh to the lack of oxygen, the sincere inspirational stories of small characters in the film are very moving.
And Wei Xiang himself, as a golden supporting role, finally starred in the male protagonist after many years, which also made the story on the screen and the story off the screen perfectly connected.
In the end credits, Wei Xiang wept bitterly when the movie was finished, which made people see how important this role was to him in his heart, and I couldn't help but be moved by him.
In the film, what makes Me most impressed by Wei Xiang's acting skills is not even those hilarious passages, but several scenes that show Wei successfully facing difficulties, from which the audience can clearly see the level and complexity of his performance, and empathize with this small person.
"Between unsuccessful and successful, there may be only one attempt."
"This Killer Is Not Calm" is not simply a hilarious comedy that can make people happy, it is also a heart-warming inspirational masterpiece, in this movie about dreams, we can not only see the dreams of the characters in the story, but also the dreams of the actors themselves, so that people are reminded of the dreams in their hearts.
Such a domestic comedy masterpiece is still so suitable for viewing during the Spring Festival, so what else is there to say? Look at it and you're done!