A good spy war drama can make you fall into the pit in one episode.
Recently, spy warfare has occupied the prime time of satellite TV, today we will take a look at this new spy war drama starring Jin Dong -
"Infernal"
Not long after the broadcast, "Infernal" won the first place in the double ratings of Oriental Satellite TV and Jiangsu Satellite TV.
The playback data continues to skyrocket, and Tomato Jun will take you to see the three highlights of this "Infernal".
Highlight 1, the opening is a box lunch, the pace is fast, the story is strong, and the spy war suspense atmosphere is full
The story is set during World War II, when Shanghai gathered multiple forces.
And the whole story of "Infernal" begins with a battle for confidential information.
It opens with a cruise ship cutting through the smoke, a ship bound for Shanghai from Japan.
In the dead of night, in the brightly lit cabin, a secret mission is also quietly carried out.
The secret agent played by Haichi takes advantage of the accidental collision to get the key to the database from the Japanese.
His goal was a mysterious Japanese document in the cabin database, which had to be passed on or it could be in big trouble.
Here, the sea is still slowly opening the data, and over there, the Japanese have discovered that the data has been stolen.
The Japanese soldiers with guns and live ammunition have already surrounded them, and the sea is still calmly checking, and the atmosphere of saber rattling comes out.
In the cramped cabin, there was little possibility of escape from the sea.
With the furniture of the cabin and the cooperation of his teammates, Kaiichi shot several Japanese agents and fled to the corner of the corridor.
But he was unable to fight with both fists and four hands, and after being caught by the Japanese, he was shot in both legs.
In order not to leave the Japanese a chance to get information, Haichi swallowed the poison and died of poisoning.
But someone spied on the person who cut off the power for him, a single woman with long hair.
So the Japanese immediately ordered an investigation into the women of the whole ship, and Hua Xiangyu, played by Wang Likun, was among them.
Just when the Japanese were about to discover Hua Xiangyu's true identity, Lu Feng, played by Jin Dong, stood up to save the beauty.
He was an agent of the No. 76 expatriate to Japan for special training, and he had the Japanese Army Academy badge pinned to his chest.
When the Japanese soldiers saw this badge, they knew Lu Feng's identity, so they did not check again, and Hua Xiangyu escaped.
Two people who are unidentified, but both carry multiple secrets, meet together.
After experiencing life and death, I thought that they would not meet again, but the same agent identity is destined that they will not only continue the frontier, but also may shoot at gunpoint.
Hua Xiangyu serves the military commander, she is both a sharpshooter and a powerful agent.
Her cover identity is the secretary of the bank's president, Ji Yunzhong.
Lu Feng, on the surface, is a secret agent of No. 76, but in fact it is a secret agent installed by the military commander in No. 76.
In order to deal with the secret group of No. 76, the military commander set up a ghost group, and Lu Feng, who had just returned to China to join the ghost group, had the first task of infiltrating the secret group, learning intelligence, and completely destroying the organization.
Lu Feng has a master named Matsushita Chio in Japan, and under the recommendation of Panasonic, he and Ji Yunzhong have an intersection, and naturally meet Hua Xiangyu.
But when he infiltrated the secret group, carried out a mission and arrested human traffickers, the person who raised his gun from the tall building and tried to kill him was precisely Hua Xiangyu wearing a wig.
Can the two who kill and love each other live safely to the end?
What kind of secrets and missions do the two people carry on their backs?
These, Tomato Jun is not a spoiler, leave it to everyone to see for themselves.
As a spy war film, "Infernal" has a strong story, and the opening sea uses life in one day, bringing out the main line throughout the play, that confidential information.
The plot behind, although there are branch lines, is basically carried out around this information.
The pace of the story is fast, and there is a lot of white space in the identity and clues of the characters, which allows the audience to enjoy the thrilling action while also feeling the thrilling atmosphere of spy movies.
Some unexpected reversals in the latter also exempted "Infernal" from the routine of traditional spy warfare, which is also the biggest reason for its high ratings.
Highlight 2, clues cross, witty fighting exciting, suspense, fascinating
Watching suspense movies, not only watching the battles between agents, but also enjoying the thrill of IQ being rubbed.
This can be deeply experienced in the first ten episodes of "Infernal".
Because of the many forces involved, the identity of each main character is not clear.
Lu Feng, ostensibly an agent of No. 76, is actually the core of the military ghost plan, and his experience in Japanese training also makes it possible for him to become a special agent of the Japanese "Mei organ", and possibly our people.
Hua Xiangyu, the killer of the military commander, but her progressive thinking and decisive actions are also likely to fall to us.
Lu Feng's superior, the person in charge of the ghost plan, is ostensibly the head of the military system, but in fact, the confidential information is related to him.
He tried in every possible way to take the lives of many people to carry out the plan, and in the end it was likely to be just for his own selfishness, which made his identity confusing.
And Shen Xiao, the leader of the special secret group, is a ruthless and thoughtful person who wants to clear the military command and also work with us.
Many forces, mixed together, so when a battle of wits occurs, there will be a crossover of various clues.
This makes the story of "Infernal" suspenseful and fascinating.
The first ten episodes experienced a climax, and this climax also led out the secret of that confidential information for the first time.
At the beginning of the story, Chio Matsushita, a Japanese, intends to sell the legal tender template for Chongqing to others, so that he can print money like crazy and disrupt the Shanghai financial market.
And this set of templates is the subject of contention between the military command and the special secret group.
The template changed hands several times, and after experiencing the death of the killer Han Tian, it fell into the hands of the special secret group and was placed in the most confidential database.
Shen Xiao originally thought that this template was foolproof, but he didn't expect that it was eventually taken away by the flash official, and the process of taking it away was an extremely wonderful battle of wisdom.
The flash official formed a big game.
He first asked the dying Chio Matsushita to mention the military commander's agent "Fire Crane".
Then let the "fire crane" reveal his identity and deceive Shen Xiao. According to the fire crane, the military commander will blow up the city hall building during the financial meeting.
So Shen Xiao poured out and laid a net in the municipal government building, intending to wipe out the ghost group.
But the flash official did the opposite, and when the nest of the special secret group was empty, he took advantage of the void and not only took away the fiat currency template, burned the database, but also took away the confidential information.
Before leaving, the flash official deliberately left two clues for Shen Xiao, which made Tomato Jun feel that the story behind was not simple.
The first clue is that when he fled, he deliberately let Shen Xiao see himself, which was to lead Shen Xiao to the "Fire Phoenix" plan that had failed.
Another clue is that when he burned the database, he deliberately poured gasoline under the drawer of the confidential information, and Shen Xiao judged from the ignition point that what the flash official was looking for may be the confidential information.
Is there a bigger conspiracy in the flash? We don't know.
But judging from this big chess game under the screenwriter, the story behind "Infernal" is certainly not simple.
And this kind of one-link after link, finally ushered in a reversal, and at the same time buried suspenseful wisdom fighting, is the most enjoyable plot in spy war dramas.
These plots will also attract the audience to watch until the end of "Infernal" and the mystery is revealed.
Highlight three, Jin Dong's acting skills are convincing, Zhang Zhijian's aura is powerful, and Wang Zhiwen's "eye play" makes people's spines chill
The story needs acting skills, and any excellent TV series needs excellent actors.
"Infernal" is like this, as early as "Rebel", Jin Dong's Ming Lou attracted countless fans with his identity as a big brother, and he also embarked on the road to explosion.
After that, Jin Dong has almost never encountered spy war dramas again, and the roles are mostly urban elite old cadres.
But in "Infernal", Jin Dong played another agent, and from his acting skills, we seem to see that Jin Dong in "Rebel" is back.
What Tomato Jun liked the most was a torture scene.
In order to test whether Lu Feng really joined the secret group, he was stunned and tied to the execution chair.
The feeling of over-electrification of the body has been performed by many people before, but Jin Dong's performance has a special feeling.
From the audience's point of view, he has both the reserved feeling of knowing that he is an agent who has entered the secret group, and the grievance that he really joined the secret group, but is not trusted.
This complex emotion culminates after he breaks free from the shackles of his chair.
He knew that on the other side of the mirror was Shen Xiao, who tortured himself, and after his emotions exploded and he smashed the glass angrily with a stool to no avail, Shen Xiao shot and broke the mirror.
There's a very advanced level of communication here.
In the shattered mirror, below was Jin Dong's broken face and a terrified expression, and above was a calm Shen Xiao.
Jin Dong's panic played very well, on the one hand, he did not judge that Shen Xiao would shoot, on the other hand, he was afraid of the person in front of him.
And Shen Xiao's calmness happens to form an intertext with Jin Dong, and at this moment, this composition is a proper movie level.
After that, the two exchanged identities again, and this scene was perfect.
After watching so many plays of Jin Dong, the acting skills in "Infernal" are of the upper middle level and convincing.
In addition to Jin Dong, the two old actors also played very well.
One is Zhang Zhijian.
In "Infernal", his role is the head of the ghost group named "Flash Officer", and he is also the most useful and mysterious character in "Infernal" so far.
Zhang Zhijian's eyes are sharp and his lines are calm, which is very suitable for playing that kind of big person.
During the operation of destroying the database of the secret group, he was expressionless the whole time, and only when he got the information, his expression changed slightly, revealing that he had an aura of thunder in his chest and did not change color.
Sometimes, just a slight movement of the eyelids, or a slight twitch of the face, can let the audience experience the change of his emotions, which is very powerful.
It is precisely because of Zhang Zhijian's drama bones that the supporting role of "Infernal" can better serve the protagonist.
Jin Dong was in front of the stage, Zhang Zhijian was behind the scenes, and the two sang and reconciled, there were opposites, and there were dramas, giving the audience a good experience.
The other is Wang Zhiwen.
Wang Zhiwen plays Muxihe, the superior of the flash official.
The director once mentioned that when Wang Zhiwen played this role, he learned that Muxihe was an inch head, and he shaved his hair without saying a word, and the director also admired Wang Zhiwen's professionalism.
Wang Zhiwen won almost as soon as he showed his face, and he used a look to perform this fierceness.
Muxi Crane's title is higher than that of Shemguan, so when he talks to Shemguan, he has a natural sense of oppression.
When asking the flash official why he removed the people in the Four Seasons Green Inn, just a skeptical wink made people feel a little chill down their spine.
In "Infernal", Wang Zhiwen contains layers of performances like this, and there are many, many more, and Tomato Jun will not give examples one by one.
In short, among this year's spy war films, the quality of "Infernal" is superior.
Whether it is from the story, plot rhythm, service or actor performance, it is a relatively high-quality genre drama.
Now the show is on the air, whether it is Lu Feng, who is being chased and killed by many forces, or the mysterious flashing officer, whether it is the action of the special secret group, or the moth of the military commander, it is advancing at a fast pace.
If there is a drama shortage recently, you may wish to take a look at this spy war drama.
(Movie Rotten Tomatoes Editorial Office: Miao Miao)