Author: Du Yi is unique
If you've seen Air Rescue, Unidentified, and Night Vengeance, you should be looking forward to commuting to Rescue. Because they are all the same director and starring, and several previous works have a good reputation, in addition to allowing Uncle Lian to continue to consolidate his position as an action superstar, especially the air rescue and unidentified, the director has created a thrilling and suspenseful atmosphere quite well.
So even if you change from an airplane to a train, you still want to see what kind of tense story the director will tell, and what kind of wonderful rescue Uncle Lian will stage.
Let's talk about the plot first: Michael, played by Uncle Lian, has a seemingly perfect family, a virtuous wife and a self-motivated son, but the savings of the two sons before the 2008 economic crisis were wiped out, and now they can only rely on frugality and hard work to survive, and the cost of the child's upcoming college is still being raised. Michael, who came to work at the insurance company as usual, was suddenly fired, which made him feel unable to deal with his wife and family.
At the bar and former colleague Cop Murphy complains, meets former boss, now a police superintendent, David, and reminds Michael to be careful of Murphy.
(Where there is Patrick Wilson, there are quasi-ghosts)
Michael embarked on the commuter train home, the means of transportation he had been transporting between work and home for a decade, and began the journey of desperation. First the mobile phone was stolen, and then joanna, an expert in human behavior, gave Michael a proposition: do something you are good at, it has no impact on yourself, but it will have a great impact on others, and there will be a reward for doing it, $100,000, will you do it?
From initial suspicions, to getting a deposit, to calling the police, Michael apparently made things simple, with all the evidence that his wife and son had been kidnapped and that he had a limited time to find the target. After many trips between the carriages, Michael's behavior has frightened many passengers, and he has been called to the police as a gangster, so Michael has to prove his innocence in addition to rescuing his family.
I have to admit that the director is really high in creating a suspenseful atmosphere (see "Orphan Complaint" and "Shark Beach"), and the time and space clip at the beginning of the film sets the tone, and the scene that seems to be life expresses an unstable and unreal mood.
And Michael's platform security check on the return train (rush hour security) also indicates that something is going to happen, a few sneaky characters flash by, and the pair of black and white leather shoes represent a beautiful danger.
Sure enough, Joanna, played by Villafamica, appeared in front of Michael, and as soon as the ghost hunting expert appeared, he immediately brought his own horror aura.
Michael intends to ask the old man to help call the police, but the old man dies very suddenly.
Michael struggled to find the target, the tattooed man, fought with him and successfully put the GPS device on the bag, only to find his body at the bottom of the carriage, still an FBI.
Other passengers, such as the nagging manager, the nervous nose ring woman, and the obscene man who always probed the brain, were all suspicious.
In order to escape the police search, Michael came to a performance of a railroad guerrilla, and the $25,000 deposit died in the wind.
In one last attempt, Michael breaks the air conditioning of the train, gathers the few passengers in the last car, and tells everyone about his situation, successfully drawing out the killer on the train, where Uncle Lian contributes the best fight in the film - there is, and only one.
In addition, three novels appear in the film, namely "Shadow of the Wind" (Spanish suspense novel, telling the protagonist that if he cannot reveal the truth, his relatives will fall prey to murder), "Grapes of Anger" (the representative work of the American writer Steinbeck, telling the disaster brought by the economic crisis to the people) and "The Red Letter" (the representative work of the American writer Hawthorne, the heroine is called Puran, telling the story of religion and revenge), the timing of these three books also reflects the mood of the readers at that time, and plays a good role in foiling.
(The book below Shadow of the Wind is the suspense novel Dragon Tattoo Girl)
After a rare train derailment scene, the real Puran finally spoke up, and when she finished talking about the cause of the incident, the movie took a sharp turn, and all the suspense in front of it completely collapsed.
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For the sake of profit, the power figure instructed the policeman Murphy to kill Sophia's (Puran)'s brother, Sophia witnessed the process and went home to hide the evidence her brother had kept, and told the FBI through her friends that the two sides agreed to meet at Cold Spring Station, which led to the killing. Michael, a former police officer, had just been fired and needed money, which he could use to find witnesses. And the villain cop Murphy is debunked simply for a "noble" line.
This is the cause, process and result of the event??????
From Joanna's ubiquitous surveillance to devising all kinds of killing methods, this kind of strength of the villain, with the need to go to great lengths to frame Michael? Waiting at the Cold Spring Station are two FBI, wait until the witness joint is directly killed?
Superintendent David is the commander of the hostage rescue, knowing that the policeman Murphy has a problem, and let him become a negotiator? This is not obvious to go to the pit uncle well!
Murphy tried to find the witness, Puran, and all the passengers stood up and said they were Puran. Come on! This is a thriller suspense movie is good or not, not to sing the main melody, to praise the glory of human nature.
Heinously, Murphy was killed, the passengers were safe, and Michael could wash himself, but what about the family? The director did it in one sentence. It turned out that the invincible FBI had long since rescued Michael's family. I can only admire the director, who originally stole the phone's setting, completely inheriting the tricks in Channing tartum's "Thief League".
Superintendent David finally issued an invitation to join Michael.
(I really want to know: why did I leave the police force with such good qualities in the first place)
At the end of the film, Michael can even meet Joanna on this commuter train, brabra a pass, and show the police badge. Skynet was restored without leaking, and I really didn't understand that this mysterious and cold anthropology expert's own behavior was so weird.
Could it be that Patrick Wilson and Villafamiga, a ghost-catcher couple, devised such a "horror thriller" commute trip to help Michael find a job?
Director Zomi Shira and Uncle Lian have collaborated on a number of action films, especially "Air Rescue", the same enclosed space, the same identity setting and the framed plot, compared to "Commuter Rescue", as the name suggests, one heaven, one underground. The logic of the script this time is not strict, resulting in tight front and back looseness; and the weakness of the villain cannot enhance the vitality of the protagonist. It is obvious that this movie has reduced the action scenes of Uncle Lian, and it is really painful to see that Uncle Lian can no longer reproduce the style of the previous "Rescue" series. Even the uncle was rescued from heaven to earth, and if there was no good script, the director would stop tossing him.