Whenever I talk about genre films, I have to mention Korean films.
Especially after entering the 21st century, genre films have become the field of Korean cinema to explore.
Among them, crime films have developed the most rapidly and have many good works.
Because of this, such films have become one of the most popular genres.
Recently, another crime film, "Limit Calls", broke out in South Korea.
After the release of this suspenseful and thrilling Korean local movie, it suddenly became a hit and directly won the box office championship.
When I first saw this movie, Sister Tiao was still looking forward to it.
The protagonists are Zhao Yuzhen and Ji Changxu, one is the Best Supporting Actor of the Green Dragon Award, and the other is a popular idol.
The director is Kim Chang-so, who is responsible for the editing of films such as "Snow Country Train", "Mingliang", "Horror Live", and "Witch".
The market performance is good, the film card division is also excellent, it should be a good movie.
After reading the results, Sister Tiao was really disappointed.
To sum up, "Limit Calls" only made half a good scene.
The male protagonist, Li Shengkui, is the director of a bank center, who is middle-aged and has a successful career.
There was a virtuous wife, and a pair of children, the appearance of a standard successful person.
However, from the perspective of the daily performance of the male protagonist, he is very concerned about his work, but his attitude towards his family is very indifferent, and even some sons are preferred.
One morning, the male protagonist was on the way to send his children to school when he received a mysterious call.
The strange thing is that this mobile phone is not his, so he picked it up and heard the other party's inexplicable inquiry and hung up the phone directly.
The man thought that the mobile phone was left on the car by the driver, but when he hung up the phone, he sensed that something was wrong.
The screensaver of the mobile phone turned out to be a group photo of his wife and children.
Therefore, when the phone call came again, the man's attitude of answering the phone became much more cautious.
This time, the phone man did not talk much nonsense with him, and directly pointed out and told the male owner that there was a bomb on the car, and once he got out of the car, it would explode.
Of course, the man did not believe it, but a strange smell on the car still made him a little afraid.
Not to mention that the children are still in the car, if there is an accident, the consequences are unimaginable.
The man on the phone called again to threaten him, and the man followed the description of the man on the phone and really felt the bomb under his seat.
Only then did he realize that he had really made a big deal out of it.
The phone man also formally put forward his request, he asked the man to prepare 960 million cash, and then remit 1.726 million to his account.
At the same time, he asked the male owner not to get out of the car, not to call the police, not to tell others, otherwise he would immediately detonate the bomb.
After that, a phone call from the deputy branch president further intensified the fear of the male owner.
The deputy sub-president told the man that a bomb had also been planted on his car.
According to the instructions of the telephone man, the male owner went to the deputy branch president to meet.
After the two met, the wife of the deputy branch president insisted on getting out of the car.
As a result, at the very moment the wife got out of the car, the car exploded.
Watching his colleague die in front of him, the male protagonist knows that the telephone man will not easily let himself go.
In the explosion, the son's leg was injured, a lot of blood loss, and the man's mentality completely collapsed.
Seizing the weakness of the male protagonist, the telephone man also intensified at this time, and the extortion of his money directly doubled.
In order to send his son to the hospital as soon as possible, the male protagonist can only obey the words of the man on the phone.
He began to raise money everywhere.
At this time, however, the police began to investigate the bombing that had just occurred.
Because the male protagonist and the deputy branch president intersected before their deaths, he became a key suspect of the police.
The male protagonist is completely manipulated by the telephone man, so when the police find him, he cannot cooperate with the police investigation.
This made the police more suspicious of him as the perpetrator.
From the victim to the criminal suspect, the male protagonist is unable to escape under the attack of both sides...
The plot progresses to this point, and the phone man has never appeared.
Why did he set up such a big bureau?
The unknown danger brought by the telephone man, trapped in the car with nowhere to escape, the son's life is racing against death...
At this time, the film is just over halfway through, and it can be said that the story has been told here, and the sense of suspense has been full.
After that, however, the film's feelings took a sharp turn for the worse.
Before the exact evidence was found, the police were about to shoot the man to death.
After the shooting plan failed, the phone man finally appeared.
He pretended to be the brother of the male protagonist and said that he would go in and talk to him.
Based on his one-sided words alone, the police let him in.
After the phone man went in, with a few words of effort, he let his daughter go.
Just now, the male protagonist's son is about to lose blood and die, and he has not seen the phone man move a little compassion.
The speed with which this attitude shifts is also puzzling.
What is even more incredible is that after the daughter got out of the car, the phone man kidnapped the daughter under the eyes of the police.
And in the end, the phone man who has planned for so long, as the biggest boss of the whole film, is bent on death...
Seeing this, Sister Tiao was already powerless to complain.
In the first half of the film, you can definitely see the foundation of the Korean film industry to do genre films, but the second half of the script is so hard that bugs are everywhere.
This kind of plot that cannot withstand scrutiny directly affects the reputation of the film.
At present, the score of this movie on Douban is only 5.6, which shows everyone's rejection of brainless plots.
At the same time, the film's presentation of social issues is also superficial.
The confrontation between the ordinary people who are victimized by financial products and the mercenary financial elite is really nothing new.
Watching the whole film, the only thing Tiao Jie wants to boast about is the performance of the male protagonist Zhao Yuzhen.
To put it more exaggerated, Zhao Yuzhen's performance really supported the whole film.
In a small and single space, the mood of the film is driven by his performance.
Because the whole process is an in-car play, the actor's limbs are greatly limited, but even so, only the facial performance is still moving.
When he first received the call from the bomb threat, his face was full of disbelief and disdain.
When he really realized that the bomb existed, he went from arrogance to alertness.
After his son was injured, his emotions finally began to explode.
Seeing that his wife almost died because of himself, his whole being was on the verge of collapse.
Being interrogated by the police at the same time had to be manipulated by the telephone man, who said that he would detonate the bomb, and the grievances and unwillingness were all written on his face.
In the end, when he decided to die with the phone man, the last look at his daughter was really moving.
In general, the "half a good play" of "Limit Calls" has brilliant places and obvious hard injuries.
This movie is recommended for audiences who like to watch character performances and movies full of emotions, but if you are a detail control, the sister advises you, let's not suffer this crime...