What type of film and television drama is the most lacking this year?
The answer may be unexpected, action movies.
Once upon a time, Hollywood had three major action tough guys such as Stallone Schwarzenegger, Hong Kong films had Jackie Chan and Jet Li action films shining in Asia, and action films were the absolute main commercial films of the last century.
But now there are only a handful of pure and sensual action movies.
On the one hand, with the decline of Hong Kong films, Chinese-language action films continue to decline sharply. Jackie Chan and Jet Li are old, but there is no successor.
On the other hand, Hollywood transformed, Marvel and DC's superhero series competed with each other, but the action hero Bruce Willis of the year has lost his speech, Stallone is creating the finale of "The Expendables", and Schwarzenegger turns to the TV industry.
Only the last action superstar Tom played his life again and again to support the last remnant of traditional Hollywood action movies.
Superstars disappear, the market shrinks, and realistic action movies are becoming fewer and fewer.
Therefore, any wonderful action movie that can be produced over the years is worth cherishing.
Surprisingly, today's new domestic military action film greatly exceeded expectations.
Hearty, scale explosion, excellent decompression effect.
After brushing in one breath, there is only one word in my heart:
Refreshing!
As soon as it was launched on the online platform, it gained a good reputation.
5 hours, rushed to the top of the soaring list.
I would like to call it "the coolest action movie of the beginning of 2023" - "Extraordinary Rescue".
The protagonist is not unexpected -
Recently, the model worker of the online movie, "Wusong" Ding Haifeng, who caused controversy not long ago because of posting photos of American wood-chopping life.
The last "Death of the Embers" just broke people's stereotype of him with the role of a villain, and immediately refreshed the audience's impression.
Ding Haifeng can fight, not unusual. A Wusong character has long been positioned as a "tough guy star".
However, from the blood-boiling naval captain who shouted "fire" in "Wolf Warrior 2" to Director Zhao Donglai in "In the Name of the People", Ding Haifeng has actually not appeared in an urban action movie in person for many years.
Unexpectedly, Ding Haifeng of "Extraordinary Rescue" can not only fight, but even his skills are not reduced.
In the film, one person knocks down a group of fierce men, sassy and fierce.
After reading it in one breath, I couldn't help but exclaim: "This is still the Wusong I know!"
1. Enter the play: The beginning is the climax, less than ten minutes of two action scenes, not losing to the wolf warrior
The opening credits of the film are very interesting.
A sniper who uses a large sniper to attack the target vehicle from a long range.
Sniper who plays, Ding Haifeng.
It seems that the male protagonist is giving practical guidance for a foreign security company for actual combat sniper training.
Under his scheduling, everyone was buried and ready. The reckless people who hid in the jungle were reminded by him to ambush their weapons and bodies.
Then, under the low, atmospheric background music, a group of dark-toned mirrors - escort cars, policemen, hooded criminals.
The situation is not quite right. What exercise needs to be done so realistically?
But before Ding Haifeng could react, the ambush personnel opened fire in turn according to his design.
A mortar that hit directly on the front of an open-road vehicle. The convoy was forced to stop.
Another armor-piercing bullet penetrated the escort vehicle, blood rippled in the air, and the driver was shot and killed.
A rocket launcher followed and bombarded the following vehicles.
Wait, the drill becomes a real battle?
found that the empty bomb was replaced with live ammunition, and finally realized that the wrong male protagonist immediately wanted to cease fire,
However, the escort personnel had already counterattacked with all their strength, the ambush personnel were quickly suppressed by fire, and the raid station turned into an offensive and defensive battle.
The leading eldest brother of the security company quickly asked the male protagonist played by Ding Haifeng for help, and the male protagonist was forced to make a move.
Sniper rifles shot one after another, and the guns hit key targets.
The situation was reversed again, the ambush personnel regained control of the situation, and with the cooperation of heavy weapons, the remnants of the escort were killed one after another, and the last escort vehicles were blown up.
A vicious-looking criminal was rescued from his car.
It is clear that the male protagonist was used, a drill, turned into a rescue operation and a brutal killing.
The security team used his tactics and assistance to complete the mission.
Faced with the promise of doubling the remuneration, the male protagonist left angrily, leaving only the sentence "different ways and not conspiring against each other".
This action scene, hard enough.
Then the camera turned to a white news van moving in the city fifty kilometers away.
The woman journalist is covering an international refugee story, and everything looks organized.
Until a sudden phone call stopped the report, and while the female reporter protested angrily, a sniper had quietly ambushed on the high ground.
A bullet hit the front of the car directly, and another shot, hitting the driver.
The blood-spattered female reporter was in a state of terror when police cars sounded and snipers withdrew.
The heroine finally escaped from death and returned home under the persuasion of the police.
But the whole thing is getting weirder.
It was found that the two sniper incidents, although the scale of operation is different, the location is different, the purpose is different, the rescued and the assassinated person seem to have no connection, but one thing is the same: sniper tactics.
Someone is killing according to the tactics taught by the male protagonist, and the one who started is obviously using the male protagonist's security company at the beginning, the question is what is the purpose of all this? Why did they go so a beautiful female journalist?
Before the mystery could be revealed, a new mystery appeared: the male protagonist who was thinking about the cause of the matter in the hotel was surprised to find that his avatar appeared on the wanted list of TV news.
At the same time, the sound of police cars was heard nearby.
"The police came too fast."
There is no time to be confused, and it is necessary to start fleeing immediately. But to find out the truth, you must find murder survivor Demi (Imina).
Thus, the male protagonist's road to revenge officially began.
What was originally a simple mission has been upgraded into an "ultimate rescue". It is necessary to save both beautiful women and self-saving.
Needless to say, the latter story is all kinds of fists and feet, bullets and bullets.
The only suspense is - any male protagonist solves all opponents one by one?
In the end, "Extraordinary Rescue" is an action film under a simple framework.
But in this era of increasingly extinct action movies, how to make the audience cool is the key.
2. Cool movies: Put movies and other action movies together, and the difference comes out
The coolness of this film mainly comes from three aspects, and this is the biggest difference between the film and other similar action movies.
First of all, play well enough.
The action scenes of this film integrate the strengths of hundreds of schools and are very watchable. Deadly chases, serial gun battles, and armament duels full of screens, the most important thing is gunpowder.
The rhythm of the movie is completely mud-free, a large number of action close-ups, and fast camera switching make the entire fight rhythm extremely fast.
The action design inherits the short and flat of "Wolf Warrior".
With a gun in hand, shoot decisively.
Hand-to-hand combat, clean.
"Extraordinary Rescue" does not deliberately pursue the bells and whistles of action.
Instead, every detail of the action is expressed in place.
Every shot, every shot, every sniper... All make people feel a real sense of presence.
Especially Ding Haifeng's action design is wonderful enough.
As a veteran kung fu star, the protagonist played by Ding Haifeng is an excellent security company instructor, obviously experienced in battles, the guns and weapons used are cutting-edge technology products, and Ding Haifeng's mastery of weapons and operation postures and gestures are extremely convincing.
For example, in the scene where the male protagonist rescues the female reporter, he and a group of masked gunmen armed with guns arrived at the hotel where the female reporter was located at the same time, unarmed, Ding Haifeng first launched a surprise attack on the vanguard troops who entered the room, and with his superb skills and experience, after killing one of the other party's personnel,
Grab the opponent's firearm and solve another one with one shot.
Then before the other party could react, one lay down and solve the other.
Jump, flip, and solve one more.
Flip it again, solve one more.
Finally abandon the gun, fight hand-to-hand, tear off the last killer's grenade, push away, dodge, an explosion, all solved.
The protagonist is very good at taking advantage of the surrounding environment, and can become his weapon by taking the opponent's weapon at will.
What seems to be an enemy has become his "Jackie Chan Happy House".
It can be said that the 53-year-old Ding Haifeng has contributed many violent scenes with a strong sense of actual combat with his own efforts. The hotel chased and killed, full firepower, shot at close range, decisive and neat.
Exciting vehicle pursuit battles, gun battles, vehicle collisions, grenade crits, in the face of vicious thugs, the protagonist group cooperates with each other, the male protagonist drives, operates guns, lies on the car, shoots.
Coherent.
It can be seen that the car blasting scene uses real luxury cars, the crew dares to "burn money", and Ding Haifeng's skills also live up to expectations, how can he be unhappy.
Secondly, the strong rhythm is cool enough.
The entire movie is 90 minutes with almost no waste, and the plot is linked one by one.
The male protagonist who escaped soon found out that he was framed as a wanted criminal, and it was the security company he had worked for who framed him.
In order to prove her innocence and save the last survivor of the murder, Demi, a female reporter, began to investigate the truth behind this series of events.
Then the protagonist group followed the vine and infiltrated the UNHCR and medical center to find clues, the protagonist group suffered casualties, and the heroine was captured by the villain.
In the end, the male protagonist and the villain launched a final showdown.
The whole story has no gaps, and the narrative rhythm is never dragged down.
In addition to Ding Haifeng's hormonal breath, the two heroines Imina and Lu Jie, one is a beautiful newcomer actor, and the other is a cool beauty with neat short hair and straight ball chasing love.
This action movie classic audio-triangle combination is simple and effective, with both laughter and love and the plot tension of companion sacrifice.
It was the sacrifice of Lu Jie's role that made the male protagonist completely let go of the baggage, and the final duel was ruthless everywhere and fatal.
Kill crazy.
The last big thing to feel is tactical professionalism.
The lore is cool, but it's not brainless.
Almost all the cool places in this movie have strict and professional military sophistication.
This is also the biggest difference between this film and many online action movies.
The male protagonist has many years of military career and instructor experience, and has rich combat experience.
The whole film from multiple fists to meat fights, to the duel to the gun fight, a variety of different models and different destructive firearms are displayed in a three-dimensional manner, which greatly increases the watchability of this film.
For example, when encountering an opponent with a gun at close range, you must jam the bolt between the opponent's bullet changes.
In a chase, the most effective way to stop the opponent is to hit the opponent's rear wheel with a heavy firearm.
And the essence of tactics is definitely the last male protagonist's revenge rescue scene in the film.
The opponent must be destroyed.
Female journalists, to be saved.
The entire action scene maintains a cold style, and the male protagonist shoots cleanly and neatly, without half a word of nonsense.
With the actual combat sound effects, it is the male protagonist who slaughters the entire villain criminal group by himself——
The male protagonist is a hunter, and the entire criminal group is prey.
This is a typical multi-faceted deployment, rationally organized to win more raids. Or rather, hunting.
Domestic action movies finally use brains, surprise?
Look at how the male protagonist reasonably applies combat wisdom -
First use the sniper rifle long-range shooting to complete the layout, and the opposing patrol personnel at the commanding point will all be killed.
And then quietly reached the commanding heights, condescendingly began to shoot -
Really shooting? In fact, it is to lure the enemy.
Sure enough, the main forces of the other party were all attracted by the gunshot, and perfectly fell into the grenade explosion point set by the male protagonist in advance, and the sound of fireworks and explosions was everywhere.
The main forces of the other side are destroyed.
You can save people, attack all the way and save the heroine.
There is only one last task left - destroy the remaining personnel of the opponent and kill! All extinguished!
But it is still not a brainless killing, but a sniper duel with mutual attack and defense, watching Ding Haifeng hit the legs of the condescending sniper in a low fight, a professional sense of technique, providing meticulous and rigorous action scenes, directly poking the audience.
In addition, this film thoroughly implements the principle of "if you can do it, you will force less".
In the final rescue, the villain had no chance to speak. The action scenes naturally grab the audience so much that the audience simply won't realize it... Oh, it's an action scene.
But unconsciously into the story, good action movies, action should be integrated into the plot.
Martial arts is a hard condition for action movies, but literary drama is the basis of movies.
Without a complete story, the emotions are naturally weak, and when they are finished, they are forgotten.
This film is not.
It seems that this is a simple story, framed and rescued, but the theme behind the story is how the lone male protagonist defeated a transnational human organ trading organization.
The opening heroine's refugee report is just a foreshadowing, the reason why she got into murder is because criminals take away the children among the refugees and then cut and trade the children's organs.
At the end of the movie, when the police finally arrived, the heroine hugged a girl who lost her eyes but was finally rescued, believing that this scene will make many audiences immersed in the pleasure of revenge calm down.
Therefore, this ultimate rescue originally has a special meaning, the male protagonist rescues not only the female protagonist, but countless children who may be buried under the knife of the human body trading group.
From anger, to calmness, to emotion... It's all there.
In my opinion, this moment is the most moving moment of the movie.
The male protagonist loses everything, incarnates Rambo, fights violence with violence, and has been dead since then, but justice is worth it in the end.
3, tough guy: The net big action cool film is filmed like this, it is right
Of course, movies have no shortage of shortcomings. For example, the male protagonist's too incredible single-player combat effectiveness.
The loopholes and blunt twists in the plot, the setting of the overly deliberate old macho man VS the love of beautiful girls, etc.
But for such an action drama, when the action scenes are in place, I am already very satisfied.
In the past two years, whether it is the theatrical film market or the online film market, military-themed action blockbusters have great box office appeal. Whether it is "Wolf Warrior" and "Operation Red Sea" that appeared as a milestone, or online action films such as Yu Rongguang and Zhao Wenzhuo taking turns, they have received an overall good response.
But there are not many that are really good quality.
Many action movies are mixed with too many themes, which makes the plot protracted and redundant.
Sometimes, I want to see such a happy drama.
It is enough to immerse yourself in the hearty battle, immerse yourself in the audiovisual pleasure, and add a moderate sense of suspense.
This goes back to the true charm of this genre of film and television - a grand action spectacle.
Of course, there is another key factor that allows this kind of film and television to continue, that is, the tough male protagonist.
Only real tough guys can act out real tough guy action movies.
Different from the traditional action tough guys who are cold and humorous in the past, Ding Haifeng's interpretation in "Extraordinary Rescue" is refreshing.
Not born heroes, nor overplaying personal feelings.
Just passively involved in a storm, and sincere empathy for female journalists and child victims, step by step into danger, looking for the truth, and destroying the evildoers.
Such an action tough guy, there is not much left.
I only hope that Ding Haifeng will play longer and continue to take the audience to re-experience the purest dopamine stimulation of action movies.
This is the traditional type of action for the setting sun, "extraordinary rescue".