Wang Jing recently watched "Bomb Disposal Expert 2", directly exploded foul language: really "tm" looks good! Those bastards who say that Hong Kong films are dead, shut up and go home to sleep!
Before I saw the film, coupled with the modesty of "Bomb Disposal Expert", I was a little skeptical of Wang Jing's comments, but after watching the film, I confirmed that Wang Jing did not deceive us, "Bomb Disposal Expert 2" exploded, locking in the Box Office Champion of the Lunar New Year file in advance.
"Bomb Disposal Expert 2" as the first hong Kong film in 2020, the box office has broken 100 million, word of mouth, Douban score 8.1, many netizens a water praise: basically locked this year's cinema film best, Qiu Litao very well integrated crime, suspense and action and other types of good; beyond expectations too much, live to hold back my pee for two hours of the kind of good.
Since Chow Yun Fat's "Peerless", Hong Kong films have performed decently, Qiu Litao and Andy Lau's "Sweeping Drugs 2" although the box office is gratifying, but the reputation is not good, "Mai Luren" is tepid, and "Blood Choir" is rough and shameful.
Fortunately, "Bomb Disposal Expert 2" is burning again, it is a big surprise, the film is full of Hong Kong flavor, tense rhythm, well-made, Andy Lau, Liu Qingyun, Ni Ni acting value double online, is a real sense of the fierce film.
01, the beginning of the "fried" and then say
Students who have not seen the first part will not affect the viewing of the second part.
The first part of the most impressive should be the bombing of the Hung Hom undersea tunnel, I can only tell you that the second part is more exciting, fully upgraded.
The previous bombshell, the C4, was only a pediatrician, and this one directly used the world's smallest nuclear bomb, the David Crowe gun.
Less than 2 minutes after the beginning of the film, it directly opened a "bomb", blowing up the airport of Chek Lap Kok, one of the busiest airports in the world, and all the surrounding buildings were affected by the way, and the mushroom cloud hundreds of meters high, like a demon, roared out.
This is far from enough, and then the Xiangdao Hotel, the subway station, the airport, the Tsing Ma Bridge... All blown up, six explosion scenes, from the beginning to the end, the atmosphere is constantly upgraded, the rhythm is constantly rising, absolutely can make you cool enough.
Especially at the end, the 1377-meter-long Tsing Ma Bridge was directly blown up, and the 10,000 tons of seawater were blown into hundreds of meters high water balls, pouring down like a tsunami, and none of the high-rise buildings on the shore were spared. The realism of the special effects has brought us a visual spectacle and an audiovisual feast.
Hong Kong action director Dong Wei once said that action design is to serve the plot, not to act for the sake of action. Similarly, director Qiu Litao is not "fried" for the sake of "frying", and each time there is enough motivation to make you feel that "frying" should be and reasonable.
02, Andy Lau "seconds to change" Into Dragon
It is not enough to have "explosions", but also to have the hard dish of Hong Kong films: action scenes. Andy Lau has always been brilliant in general literary drama, did not expect that this martial arts drama is very good, deeply suspect that Qiu Litao used Hua Ge as a dragon big brother, all kinds of chases, jumping off buildings, hand-to-hand combat, gun battles, cornices to walk the wall, no mud with water, the whole process of flowing clouds.
In the film, Andy Lau is a "disabled bomb disposal expert", plus in reality he is 59 years old, but he is still a variety of jumping off the building, climbing up and down, his degree of dedication is admirable, "Bomb Disposal Expert 2" is definitely the hardest and most attentive movie since Hua Ge fell off the horse.
Hua Ge's intentions also remind us of the dragon and tiger martial artists of previous Hong Kong films, they shoot action scenes, there are no special effects, no advanced skills, only what Jackie Chan said: start shooting, take off, send to the hospital. "Bomb Disposal Expert 2" allows us to see the glory of the old Hong Kong films.
03, the constantly reversed "Rashomon" plot
In recent years, under the influence of the "Anti-Corruption Storm" series, "Sweeping Drugs 2", "Chasing Dragons 2" and other films, there have been some inherent thinking about Hong Kong police films, and I think that "Bomb Disposal Expert 2" is also an old-fashioned bomb disposal police film, it is estimated that there is not much difference from the first one, I did not expect to exclaim "true fragrance" after watching it!
Qiu Litao broke through everyone's previous thinking about Hong Kong films, played the routine of suspense films, and constantly reversed the plot, which had a feeling of Rashomon.
On the one hand, the best partner Liu Qingyun said that he was full of hatred for the extremist fanatic; on the other side was his old love Ni Ni, who said that he was undercover, letting him continue the mission, which was true and false, it was really difficult to distinguish, and good and evil were in a single thought, he was a bomb disposal expert, and also a time bomb.
This design is more advanced, Andy Lau's Pan Chengfeng can not be distinguished by good people and bad people, as to whether it is good or bad, the decision is in his hands, as Ni Ni said in the film: Believe me, you are a policeman, do not believe me, you are a terrorist.
"Amnesia" memes are more common in Hong Kong movies, such as Jackie Chan of "Who Am I", Liu Qingyun of "Dumb Guy Bai Shou", Zhou Runfa of "God of Gamblers", Jet Li of "Taiji Zhang Sanfeng", this time Andy Lau also played amnesia, implanting memories with a bit of a surreal feeling.
After the amnesia, Pan Chengfeng tries to figure out his true identity, which is actually a process of finding himself. The whole story is like a game between him and himself, and finally he finds it, that is, when the bomb disposal expert is to save people, so there is the feat and "redemption" at the end.
04, Andy Lau is scheduled to be "Movie Emperor" next year
Originally, Andy Lau and Liu Qingyun were the biggest attraction of the film, and after 18 years of cooperation, it is expected that "two Liu" will become "first-class" and reproduce the glory of "Dark War". It is a little regrettable that Liu Qingyun's role is a little less, but his play is as stable as ever.
In "Dark War", the two are enemies of "cat and mouse chase", and in "Bomb Disposal Expert 2", the two have become brothers born into death, and the last sentence you go first is inexplicably painful.
In addition, Andy Lau and Ni Ni's emotional drama is not much ink, point to the end, but strongly poke people, "In the next life, I will find you again." "It was a tear in the face.
At the same time, the performance of Xie Junhao, the "wine sword immortal", Jiang Haowen, the golden supporting role, Hong Tianming, the son of Hong Jinbao, Zheng Zicheng, Wu Zhuoxi, Huang Debin, and many others who have money to do whatever they want are also very good.
The most surprising thing is Andy Lau, who switches between "good cops" and "bad guys" in the film, which is definitely a huge breakthrough in recent years, and he has booked next year's Academy Awards and Golden Rooster Awards in advance.
Pan Chengfeng has three stages, the honor and disobedience at the beginning, the frustration and confusion in the middle, the repentance in the later stage, each process is progressive, coupled with the cruel setting of "prosthetics" accompanying, which increases the complexity of the performance.
After the leg was broken, the positive attitude and toughness of the characters shown by Pan Chengfeng were not the dedicated and dedicated Andy Lau in life, and Pan Chengfeng and Andy Lau in that period were highly unified.
After becoming a "bad guy", he behaved coldly, taking the old woman in the coffee shop to remind him to take medicine and drink water, and his eyes were sharp and cold.
The most important scene that prompted him to turn from "bad guy" back to self is that he watched his former teammates die, and the helplessness was heart-wrenching. In the end, he found pan Chengfeng, a bomb disposal expert who spared his life to save people, and found himself.
In the process of transformation, the early stage is full of enthusiasm, the middle stage is extreme and irritable, the later stage of righteousness, Andy Lau's emotions are very in place, and the acting skills are perfectly passed.
The former leading figures of Hong Kong police films gradually declined, Jackie Chan's big brother began to walk the stairs, Wu Yusen withdrew from the jianghu, Du Qifeng rarely had works, Liu Weiqiang and Lin Chaoxian turned to the main theme, and Lin Delu + Gu Tianle's "Anti-Corruption Storm" model was adhered to, but it lacked innovation.
And this time Qiu Litao and Andy Lau let us see their ambitions, their self-innovation and challenges, and let us see the dawn of Hong Kong film police films.
"Bomb Disposal Expert 2" may just be the beginning, in 2021, Hong Kong films will usher in a big explosion, Mai Junlong's "Wind Forest Volcano", all-star director's "Seven-Man Band", Chow Yun Fat's "Sunny Years", Gu Tianle's "Looking for Qin" and "Tomorrow's War", Weng Ziguang's "When the Wind Rises Again", Chen Musheng's "Fury And Serious Cases", Wei Jiahui's "Detective Wars", Lin Jiadong's "The Eighth Suspect" are all worth looking forward to, let's wait and see! (Written by: Hatsuma Tomomo)