Uncle Liam came to China for the second time to promote the fifth new work of his "rescue series", Commuter Rescue. Interestingly, when he first came to China, it was the beginning of his association with this series.
Liam Neeson admits that China has very important memories for him. At the 2005 Shanghai International Film Festival, Liam Neeson met director Luc Besson, who was also looking for actors for a new film, and the two hit it off to make Hurricane Rescue. As soon as the film was launched, it gained good word-of-mouth and box office, and it was logical to open the "rescue series" IP.
Hurricane Rescue
It was also because of this opportunity that Hollywood reacquainted themselves with Liam Neeson. This is also the first time that After "Schindler's List", Liam Neeson has ushered in a major turning point in his acting career, successfully promoting to one of the most valuable action actors in Hollywood. But this transformation work really came "a little late". When the first part of Hurricane Rescue was made, Uncle Liam was 56 years old. Shooting action movies at this age, can the body eat well? The answer is that not only can you eat it, it is simply open.
Although this kind of deduction is a bit unconventional. After all, Liam Neeson has been in the field of literary films since he was young, and then his wonderful performances in many literary and artistic films such as "Rebel Ship Blood", "Miracles from Heaven", "The Virtuous Couple" and so on have won him a career-critical big-screen role, starring in the male protagonist Oscar Schindler in Spielberg's classic masterpiece "Schindler's List".
Liam Neeson has portrayed Oscar Schindler as the "savior" to a perfect and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. He also received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for this role, and although he eventually lost his hand with the film emperor, the role was undoubtedly of great significance to Liam Neeson.
Schindler's List
It wasn't until 1996 that Liam Neeson starred as Michael Collins, the leader of the Irish Volunteer Army, in the biographical film Proud of the Sky. With his outstanding performance in the film, he won the first film emperor crown in his life. Again, this is still an uncompromising image of a "savior."
"Proud of the Sky"
In the subsequent acting career, Liam Neeson carried out this "salvation" image to the end, whether it was the image of leader, mentor or father, Uncle Liam's eternal face of compassion and love was completely the embodiment of justice. The Christian missionary in Silence is like this, zeus in War of the Gods, the father in True Love, Batman's teacher in Batman: The Mystery of the Shadow, and Professor Kinsey in Professor Kinsey in Professor Kinsey.
"Silence"
"True Love Supreme"
Batman: The Mystery of the Shadow
Therefore, the "rescue" series of movies, for Uncle Liam, is an accident and an inevitability. Rather than saying that Luc Besson would pick an actor, Liam Neeson was a good fit for the role. The Liam Neeson we saw at the premiere of "Commuter Rescue", although he is 66 years old, is still in good spirits, full of love, and with a tall and burly body, there is indeed a feeling of "iron man tenderness".
In this new film "Commuter Rescue", "Liam Dad" has a new mission, and this time he is still fighting for "love". Similar to "Air Rescue" in the play, it continues the previous "rescue" mode, which is to complete the "impossible ultimate task" in a confined space, and the beginning of the mission seems so clueless. At the same time, there have been changes, not only "rough" rescue, but also more brain-burning plots of suspenseful reasoning, which makes the difficulty coefficient of rescue increase.
Commuter Rescue
In the film, Liam Neeson plays a down-and-out middle-aged man, who, after a day of losing his job and losing his mobile phone to the extreme, was picked up by a mysterious woman on the commuter train home, and sure enough, it made sense not to talk to strangers when he was a child. The woman "pulled" all the way, posing a very paradoxical question, "If you were asked to do a small and inconspicuous thing, find a passenger on this train, and you would get a large sum of money for it, would you do it?" ”
Faced with the temptation of a rich reward, he begins to look for the passenger, but in the process of searching, he finds himself caught up in a well-designed conspiracy. Not only could the game not be terminated, but even the passengers on the train and even their own families were involved.
Looking at the five films in the "Rescue Series", the first three "Hurricane Rescue" are collectively known as the "Rescue Trilogy", which mainly revolves around the rescue of his daughter, making Liam Neeson the strongest father on the surface. Compared with the "strong attack" of the first three parts, the last two "Air Rescue" and "Commuter Rescue" pay more attention to "wisdom", integrate more reasoning plots, and have a more unified style, and the last two are written by director Zomi Shira.
This is the fourth collaboration between Zomi Shira and Liam Neeson. The first collaboration between the two dates back to 2011's Unidentified, a transformation of Zomi Sheila, and the two have continued a number of action suspense films.
Liam Neeson bluntly said that he and the director have worked together four times, and they feel more like dance partners, and the cooperation is becoming more and more tacit. Even though Commuter Rescue was shot a lot, Liam Neeson enjoyed it.
Director of "Commuter Rescue" and all the main creative staff
Speaking of director Zomi Shira, everyone's first impression must be the acclaimed and popular horror film "Orphan Complaint" directed by him in 2009.
"Orphan Complaint"
Sheila seems to like this closed theme, and this theme is also very suitable for new directors, whether it is cost or practice is relatively easy to achieve, as to whether it can be brilliant, it depends on the director's ability to control.
2016 popular closed theme film "Hold Your Breath"
Therefore, films that seem to be small patterns often test the director's skills more. As we all know, there are many such films, but there are not a few who hit the street.
Sheila's performance is indeed not bad, starting with his debut film "Horror Wax Museum" has attracted much attention, and 2016's "Shark Beach" has also received a lot of praise, and he has been polishing himself on this genre.
Shark Beach
Today, Zomi Shira has taken out his "housekeeping skills" and continued to write a new chapter of "rescue". Commuter Rescue was switched from the plane of the previous Air Rescue to the train. Compared with the fixed number of people on the plane, the train has many stops, and the mobility of personnel is very large. This also makes a very good preparation for the brain-burning plot later in the film.
There are many characters in the movie, and everyone in the carriage seems to be an outsider, but it is equally questionable, and it is indeed "no one can be trusted". Zomi Sheila is more and more adept at dealing with the first perspective, and asks Uncle Liam to take us closer to each one, into the fog, and analyze this mysterious and strange event together.
Compared with the special identity of Uncle Liam's agent in the "Rescue Trilogy", the last two rescue works, Shira "pulled Uncle Liam down", and his identity tended to be ordinary. The air police in "Air Rescue" and the businessman in "Commuter Rescue" add to the sense of substitution. Imagine how we should face this danger one day.
The recently released hit "Ready Player One" and "Commuter Rescue" also have some similarities, both of which are from a game that is almost out of reality, and finally returns to reality. 90% of the scenes in the film "Commuter Rescue" take place on the train, while 70% of the scenes in "Ready Player One" are computer game graphics, emphasizing the shaping of characters in specific environments.
Recalling the wonderful fight scenes of the "Rescue Series" is naturally a major attraction. This time, the scene was selected on the train, and as we all know, the smaller the space, the more difficult it is to shoot. The space inside the train is very narrow, and there are still many fight scenes, and to complete the wonderful fight scenes, you need to rehearse continuously.
This time, Uncle Liam is still very "desperate", melee combat, jumping cars, explosions, all kinds of dangerous actions do not fall. Uncle Liam said that although he looked thrilling, he was actually not injured at all.
But watching the 66-year-old Liam Neeson still fight in front of the camera really moved fans. Remember Uncle Liam said that Commuter Rescue might be the last action movie he starred in.
However, seeing his planned two new films, "Hard Powder" and "Widow Agent", it is still like an action movie; especially "Hard Powder" is about revenge for his son. For the sake of the daughter who has already met god and killed god, for the sake of the son, it is not allowed to throw up the old nest of the people, a joke Ha. Therefore, whether it is the last one or not, in short, Uncle Liam's action drama is to watch one less, and it must be painful while watching.
Finally, I would like to share the photos of Uncle Liam who took the time to go to the Forbidden City when he came to Beijing to promote it. The perfect side face kill, completely unable to see that there is 66 years old, so please Uncle Liam feel free to act boldly, act anything good, we will still look forward to your figure in front of the screen.