Police and bandit films can be regarded as a major feature of Hong Kong films in the early days, and there are many classic masterpieces such as "Infernal Affairs", "Police Story", "Chizi Weilong" and so on, but with the decline of the Hong Kong circle, the works of this theme have also fallen into a trough for a long time.
And in 2021, a "sweeping black and decisive battle" came out of the siege, the film portrayed the underworld forces on a large scale, and many famous scenes of Jin Shijia in the film came out of the circle, and Zhang Songwen played the role of the boss behind the scenes, and for a while the film also reached the level of popularity on the whole network.
At the beginning of this year, there was a "Crazy" burst out of the circle, and during the hit period, it dominated the hot search list for a long time, Zhang Yi and Zhang Songwen, the two powerful male protagonists surprised everyone, setting off a boom in the whole people's drama, and even brought Gao Ye, Lin Jiachuan and many other supporting roles.
At present, there is another film version of "Death of the Ashes" called "Death of the Ashes" on the network video broadcast, but there are bad reviews on Douban, what is going on?
"Death of the Embers" tells the story of the Qin brothers in Yucheng who covered the sky with one hand, and the undercover policeman A Zheng (played by Zhao Zhenting) and the chief Leng Jerry cooperated to lay a net of heaven and earth, and finally let the wicked receive the punishment they deserved.
The plot setting of the film is basically the same as "Crazy", both are a pair of villain brothers, but the difference is that the film incorporates undercover elements.
It wants to make itself look different, but if you add more things, in fact, it is difficult to control to a certain extent, mainly because the movie is originally limited in duration, and the more elements are added, the more compact the plot has to be.
But the quality of the network can be guessed by everyone, the film side simply has no way to coordinate the plot, so every step reveals deliberate, just say that Ah Zheng basically comes out everyone can find that he is an undercover agent, likes to do things behind others, and persuades others not to shoot, and makes a fake action with a knife, for fear that the audience will not be able to see his identity.
So since it can be clearly seen that the film side did not leave suspense for the undercover, then generally speaking, the main gimmick is concentrated on the inner ghost in the police station, but this inner ghost is not hidden, one second knows the situation, the next second to call to report, that is, do not give any doubts, directly say the answer.
The most funny thing is that the three subordinates of the younger brother of the Qin family, there are two undercover agents, this is a combination of imitating the crazy donkey, "I can see at a glance who is the policeman in the crowd", but the movie is not to be funny, but it takes this nonsensical thing seriously, and the draw really draws the real little brother to do things, and the result is arrested by the police.
But this is nothing, the most excessive part of the imitation is that the Qin brothers in the film are basically copied by the Gao brothers, and the younger brother has been funding his brother and has also embarked on the road of drug trafficking. When the two quarreled, they each said different things, and there was a bit of "Chill" style, which was too much of a tribute.
But this plot is like I said, there are too many things explained in the front, so that the plot is particularly hasty in the back, and it has been said that the two brothers have a deep relationship, and as a result, because they may not be able to keep their younger brother, so the brother sends killers to solve people.
Then in general, there must be at least an emotional twist here, but there is nothing, this younger brother is simply, after discovering the truth, he directly killed back, took a gun and shot, the bodyguards one by one seemed to be made of plastic, all stopped.
When killing in front of his brother, his brother looked calm after all, he was a big guy, so the normal inference was that he was a killer in ambush in the shadows, and he solved his younger brother, but looking back, it was his brother who died, so what is this brother doing so calmly, it's really thunderous and brainless.
The most important thing is that at this time, the younger brother's marksmanship is still good, but later he led a group of subordinates, was raided by the male protagonist, but he couldn't hit the male protagonist with a single shot, I will take a go, this is purely humiliating the audience's IQ, and there are a lot of chemicals in the venue, the shootout is so tragic, it is impossible not to explode.
The excessive place lies in the end, which is the most criticized point, that is, Shen Chen in the two undercover agents was shot, his vital signs are weak, and then the male protagonist A Zheng has been driving from dawn to dark, everyone feels abnormal or feels that this is too far to the hospital, illogical.
But A Zhengming knew that Shen Chen was still panting, not to go to the hospital to save it, but chose to meet Shen Chen's sweetheart for the last time, this operation can be said to be unheard of, really do not rescue ah, feel that the screenwriter at the end is directly crazy.
The quality of the film is really not flattering, but in order to attract the attention of the audience, the film has not yet put less effort into casting, and Zhao Zhenting, who plays A Zheng, has played Xie Bi'an in "Qing Yu Nian", which can be regarded as familiar with everyone's face.
Although he is nominally the male protagonist in the movie, because it is a group portrait play, there are not particularly many scenes, and within the scope of his control, the performance is decent, and there is no lack of some pretend gestures and expressions, which do not play a big role.
And the powerful is Ding Haifeng, who played Qin Han, when he played Wu Song in "Water Margin" was really a classic, and subsequently contributed wonderful performances in "In the Name of the People" and "A Generation of Hong Shang", and this year he is 54 years old, and it is surprising that he actually came to act in a bad movie.
Looking at Ding Haifeng alone, he is still strong and can support the setting of the underworld boss, but if for Zhang Songwen, Ding Haifeng lacks a bridge that can present the inner drama, so it will appear that he is acting very vain, lacking the necessary psychological change process, and it is also a form that only gives results.
But at least Ding Haifeng's scenes are relatively normal, just to show his strength as an underworld boss, if you just look at his acting skills there is no problem, but unfortunately in this kind of bad film, his few scenes do not play any role.
Even gives everyone the feeling that Ding Haifeng is short of money, after all, there is only one classic character on the side, the film and television industry is so rolled, and the acting network is also an inevitable trend, but at this age it is really not a wise choice to corrupt the popularity of the road, I hope he will stop as soon as possible, otherwise it will be late and unsafe.
All in all, the most intuitive feeling in the production of the film "Death of the Ashes" is that you don't have to worry about just rubbing it, because the explosion of "Crazy" came to a film version through the shell of others, but the logic and rhythm are completely off, no wonder it is filled with various bad reviews, Ding Haifeng people do not want to protect their wings in old age, this wave of operation is too bad reputation, so do you think this movie is worth watching?