The first place in the soaring list, Ding Haifeng's "black film" exploded, but unfortunately I can only boast about half

Six years ago, shortly after the launch of the anti-corruption drama "In the Name of the People", it became popular on the Internet.

Its popularity is by no means under the just-concluded "Crazy".

This drama has made a lot of old drama bones, allowing the audience to see that the actors' acting skills are far faster than the "traffic".

This includes Ding Haifeng, who plays Zhao Donglai, the head of the Jingzhou City Public Security Bureau.

For the audience, Ding Haifeng's face is no stranger.

In the 1998 CCTV version of "Water Margin", he played "Wu Song".

Relying on the only few trick experiences and the 100,000 yuan accident insurance bought by the director, Ding Haifeng not only interpreted Wu Song's chivalry and heroism, but also "hit" a real tiger.

After this exciting and real acting experience, Ding Haifeng became a full-time actor.

In the following years, he was mixed in the film and television industry, although his roles were not many, but he was better than the diverse roles and online acting skills.

For example: Yang Tiexin in the 03 version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes";

the anti-Japanese hero Ma Zhanshan in "Eastern Battlefield";

Liu Yubin, chief of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Shanghai Police Department in the spy war drama "Seamless".

Looking at his acting experience, you will find that his role has a positive image, of course, he looks tough and tall, and he is indeed suitable for such a role.

What if he plays the villain?

Just look at his new work "Death of the Embers".

This is an online movie with a sweeping black theme, the entire shooting cost is only 8 million, and it won the first place in the "soaring list" as soon as it was launched.

Some people say that this is the movie version of "Crazy", and the whole process is high-energy.

Some people also say, "It's not very good-looking, it's not too bad", which means nothing more than to express that the movie is worthy of the name of the Internet, but it does not exceed the audience's expectations!

Frankly speaking, as a movie, I can only boast half of "The Death of the Embers", because its advantages and disadvantages are very distinct.

1. The film has a fast pace, large scale, many foreshadowing, and a "cool" visual perception

The story begins in Yucheng, where the night is frightening.

In this place, entrenched a strong brother group - Hanyong Group.

It is a large real estate company on the surface, but behind the scenes, it is an unscrupulous enterprise dominated by gangsters.

This time, it will compete for a highway project with up to 600 million dollars.

Similarly, staring at this "fat meat" is not only Qin Han (played by Ding Haifeng) and Qin Yong, but also others.

As a result, under the entanglement of interests, a "traffic accident" appeared on a rainy night, the competitor was seriously injured, and the accompanying driver was killed on the spot.

At the same time, the Yucheng police are also quietly mobilizing to arrest a drug-related transaction.

Strangely, although the arrest operation went smoothly, the leader involved quickly withdrew from the crowd of onlookers.

However, just as the man was fleeing in a rainy night, a gunman intercepted him with a car and simply shot him away.

In the first five minutes, "Death of the Embers" staged a big drama involving the underworld: the head of the main bidding enterprise was seriously injured, and the leader of the drug-related gang was killed.

However, this is not the end of the story.

With the arrival of the new public security chief Leng Jie, there are more doubts.

First of all, the driver of the traffic accident not only had a drug-related record, but also committed suicide by jumping off the building the next day;

Then, the "suicide scene" forged by the rainy night killer was discovered, but the murderer mysteriously "disappeared";

In the end, there were frequent ghosts in the police, and the entire investigation operation reached an impasse.

Just at the beginning, "Death of the Embers" allows the audience to feel the urgency and excitement of "black and white war".

In fact, the fast-paced anti-black movies in domestic films are not absent.

But "Death of the Embers" is undoubtedly larger in scale, on the one hand, it shows the rampant and domineering of the underworld forces, and on the other hand, it also shoots the greed and cunning of corrupt elements.

For example, in the movie, Qin Yong's subordinates reacted as soon as they found the police informant, not only driving the informant, but also intending to extinguish him.

And for corrupt elements, the film does not shy away.

For example: Qin Han's power trade with Vice Mayor Ma;

There was also a bribe of money to Deputy Director Feng.

The climbing of desire and their own helplessness, corruption has no reason and is not worthy of sympathy, "Death of Embers" is through such a lens, allowing the audience to see the compromise and greed without a bottom line, and will eventually embark on a road that cannot be turned back.

In addition to these large-scale plots, the movie has a lot of interesting foreshadowing.

For example: when Ah Zheng decided to "solve" the informant in order to save trouble for the boss, the posture of holding the knife in his hand did not look like a key person, but to protect the other party, which means that Ah Zheng hinted at the identity of the "policeman" to the audience from the beginning.

There is also Shen Chen's identity, which also has many reversals in the film.

On the surface, he is the horse boy that Qin Yong wants to take the throne, but meeting with the retired old director in private shows that his identity is not simple.

There is a scene in the film where Director Leng receives an anonymous envelope containing a USB flash drive about the criminal evidence of Vice Mayor Ma and Acting Director Feng.

This is also the key to the film's finding of the inner ghost, and this scene seems a bit abrupt in the movie.

But look closely, Ah Zheng as an undercover police officer directly docked with Chief Leng directly, so only Shen Chen could hand over this USB flash drive.

And this also echoes the plot where he finally revealed his police identity to his girlfriend, such a foreshadowing arrangement, real details.

2, Ding Haifeng's acting skills are still online, and the black boss he plays is gloomy, greedy and domineering

Frankly speaking, the role of "Black Boss" is not easy to play.

In "Crazy", Zhang Songwen can portray the role of "Gao Qiqiang" profoundly, one stems from his understanding of life, and the other is the control of details.

This presents a cold-blooded and tender, brutal and affectionate villain.

Generally speaking, there are two ways to interpret the "black boss" in film and television dramas:

One, such as Guo Xiaopeng in "Black Ice", is elegant on the surface but distorted inside, he can do whatever it takes for ideals, and he can also abandon calculations for feelings.

Complex, conceited, transparent to human nature, ruthless but emotional.

The two, such as Deng Jiayong in "Jianghu Love", are bad simply and thoroughly, for the sake of superiority and interests, he can ignore feelings and family affection.

In his eyes, only money can tell.

This time, Ding Haifeng challenged the latter.

For the decent Ding Haifeng, it is not easy to play the villain Qin Han.

Fortunately, he stood on this role, and there was a smell of "heroes" all over his body.

For example: greed and insidious.

In the film, Qin Han gave people a calm and cautious feeling as soon as he appeared, and the gold wire glasses covered up his domineering, but he could not hide his calculations.

On the one hand, he "vigorously" opposed his brother Qin Yong's involvement in drugs, but did not violently stop it, because he needed his brother's money to consolidate his career.

On the other hand, from studying to doing things, he has always been calculating his younger brother, and in the end, he even prepared a back hand to "persuade his younger brother to leave", because he did not want to die.

Such a person is really downright bad.

Even if he was killed in the end, the sinister and calculating in his eyes never stopped.

In addition to Ding Haifeng, Qin Qidong as Qin Yong is also very eye-catching.

If Qin Han corresponds to Gao Qiqiang, then Qin Yong corresponds to Gao Qisheng.

In the film, he has a ruthlessness and madness, in order to hold his brother on the throne, he harms people, accumulates wealth, and does all evil, as he said,

It is a pity that it was such unscrupulousness that led to his eventual arrest.

3. The slots in and out of the play left Ding Haifeng with a big regret

Let's start with the play.

On the whole, the look and feel of the film is acceptable, but there is still the biggest drawback of the Internet - the tiger is over, and it ends too suddenly.

In the first half of the plot, everything from the gang fight to the police station is relatively smooth.

With the smooth entry of the undercover agent into the subsequent development of Qin Yong's drug-related career, the story line is a little unstable.

In particular, the "face turning" of the two brothers Qin Han and Qin Yong is very abrupt, and the reason for "can't keep his brother because of drug involvement" is too far-fetched, after all, Qin Han knows about Qin Yong's drug involvement, and the latter has always been a "good big brother" character.

Moreover, although the police have some evidence, it is really incomprehensible for Qin Han, who has "hands and eyes in the sky", just making a phone call that does not hurt or itch and is ready to kill his younger brother.

The last few minutes of gunfight and car chase scenes are directly confusing.

Undercover Ah Zheng, even turned into a "lone hero", single-handedly overturned the villain and left a big spectrum.

In addition, there are some deficiencies in the plot setting.

For example: the identity of the ghost in the police station is generally one of the highlights of crime films, but the movie jumped this step and almost hit the name of the ghost on the public screen.

There is also a plot in which Shen Chen was shot and killed during the battle against Qin Yong is also more "old-fashioned".

Sweeping black emphasizes joint strikes, after the two come out, they can completely request reinforcements, not to mention, Ah Zheng, who has bursting combat effectiveness, actually can't take Qin Yong in the case of two-on-one, which is unreasonable.

The most speechless thing was that Ah Zheng took the dead Shen Chen to see Xiao Wan and forcibly sensationalized.

It's hard to say enough, the "heroism" + couple's life and death style in the old Hong Kong film is actually not suitable in this movie.

Let's talk about outside the play.

Compared with some unreasonable points in the play, there may be more slots outside the play.

First of all, it has the suspicion of "rubbing heat".

This is not just to say that the plot of the film is very similar to "Crazy".

The film was completed as early as 2020 and was approved for online filing in the fourth quarter of 2021.

That is, after the production of this film was completed, it was put on hold for quite a while.

But with the fire of "Crazy", this movie has also been labeled as a "crazy movie version", and it is inevitable that there is a suspicion of "rubbing heat".

Secondly, it is the official announcement and poster "fake", Ding Haifeng does not have many scenes.

This is a trick used by the Internet in recent years.

In the movie "Black Fox Jedi Rescue" in which Hu Jun participated before, he was in the C position in the official announcement and poster.

But in fact, he has very few scenes.

The same is true in Death of the Embers.

Although Qin Han, played by Ding Haifeng, is one of the villains, there are not as many young actors standing on both sides of the poster.

But Ding Haifeng is the most famous among these actors, and naturally has become a "selling point".

In the end, Ding Haifeng is controversial.

In a recent tree-cutting video, the IP address appears to be in the United States.

Looking at the previous videos, he also posted his villa and life in the United States.

As a result, some netizens questioned his immigration to the United States with his family.

But in this regard, Ding Haifeng did not respond positively, but only said, "accompany the family."

Therefore, some netizens began to boycott his new work, frankly saying, "Live well in a big villa in the United States, don't come to China to grab a job." ”

To sum up the above reasons, for Uncle Fan, although this anti-black film exploded, I could only boast about half of it, and I had to leave a big regret.

It's a bit of a pity!

If the film can put a little more effort into the details of the plot and consider the ending, perhaps the completion of the film will be better, and for the audience, there will be a greater viewing surprise.

(Movie Rotten Tomatoes Editorial Office: An An)