Girls' generation Lin Yun'er + small screen male god Cao Zhengyi, what kind of wonderful chemical reaction will this combination produce?
These two people who are familiar with the Korean entertainment industry should be familiar with each other, one is a god face that is remembered by the world for his appearance, and the other is a TV drama little prince with excellent acting skills.
This time, the two worked together with the new director Lee Sang-geun to bring new works, but they did not want to dominate the Korean summer program.
It's an action disaster comedy —
Extreme Escape
Judging from the title, the film seems to be inextricably linked to the hit "Extreme Occupation" at the beginning of the year.
It is also true that "Extreme Escape" is another comedy film created by the "Extreme Profession" team, but this time it is not pure comedy, but a new attempt at disaster + action + comedy.
It is said that because of the model involving disaster films, the film invested more than 13 billion won.
And although it is a new attempt, its results are quite good.
As of September 15, "Extreme Escape" has reached 9.38 million viewers in South Korea, and is about to exceed 10 million, ranking third in the annual box office of Local Films in South Korea in 2019, second only to "Extreme Occupation" and "Parasite".
And it not only surpassed the same period of film at the pre-sale box office before its release in South Korea, but also broke the record for the first day of movies such as "Extreme Occupation" on the first day of release.
At the same time of continuous praise, the brainwashing distress signal "Dadada" in the film also swept the Korean network in an instant, and the two leading actors also personally created an instructional video, and the film also received a high score of 9.1 in the Korean network NAVER.
Obviously, it is another blockbuster Korean film in 2019.
At the beginning of the film, the film's male protagonist, Yongnan, is introduced, an unemployed vagabond, because he failed again in his application.
So I can only wash the dishes for my parents at home, and I can only accept my sister's help.
His daily fixed activity is to use the horizontal bar in the community to exercise, but his fancy horizontal bar action is only three grandmothers clapping their hands on the side, and in the eyes of the children in the community, he is a community fool.
There was even a rumor that his girlfriend had fallen to her death while playing horizontal bars, so he went crazy and couldn't stop as soon as he saw horizontal bars.
Because of his strange appearance, his nephews were reluctant to greet him and pretended not to know him.
Then at the birthday party of his mother's seventieth birthday, Yongnan met his sister, Yizhu.
The two were seniors in college, in the same climbing club, and their skills were first-class.
Yongnan had previously confessed to Yizhu that he had been rejected, and Yongnan, who was both sad and humiliated, hid from Yizhu for many years.
This time the meeting was purely accidental, and Yi Zhu served as the deputy manager of the restaurant where they hosted the banquet.
After the two awkward greetings, the banquet was also ready to be dispersed, but they did not expect the disaster to occur.
Unknown gases appeared on the streets, and citizens who inhaled the gases quickly fell to the ground.
Drivers on the road also caused a series of car accidents, and the tanker truck exploded, and the scene was very chaotic.
In order to delay the time of being invaded by poison gas, the people fled to the roof to wait for rescue.
Unexpectedly, the door on the roof was locked, and there was only one key, in the management room on the first floor.
But the poison gas has completely submerged the first floor, and going to the first floor to get the key at this time is undoubtedly a death sentence.
Unless the door is opened from the roof, they will be trapped here waiting to die.
At this time, Yongnan had a plan and was ready to risk climbing up the roof from the outside of the building.
He smashed the window, then used the ropes and other tools in the restaurant to make a simple safety rope, first jumping to the roof of the opposite building, and then jumping back with the help of force.
Unexpectedly, the originally conceived iron rod did not get stuck between the two pillars smoothly, but fortunately, he grabbed the raised bricks outside the wall and began his dangerous climbing.
The early stages were all going well, but just as he was about to take the final step, the safety rope on his body was not long enough.
Seeing that he was about to reach the summit, he ventured to remove the safety rope and staged a real freehand climb.
After some thrilling, I finally boarded the roof safely and successfully found a rescue helicopter.
At this point, the film is only halfway through.
Here, "Extreme Escape" also took the necessary routine of the disaster film, the theme is always inseparable from human nature, the rescue helicopter can not carry everyone, Yi Zhu for the guests, let them go first, and Yongnan chose to accompany his goddess to stay.
At this moment, the store manager who was still confessing his love to Yizhu a second ago was only concerned about tightening the safety net at the moment, and did not care at all about Yizhu's life and death.
Yongnan and Yizhu, who were left behind, watched another helicopter passing over them, and thought that only by going to the roof of the tallest building could they improve their chances of being rescued.
So the duo's urban parkour officially began, which is also the highlight of the second half of the film.
The two men made their own poison suits and ran through the rooftops of the city.
They tied dumbbells to the rope and threw it to the opposite building to make a homemade escape bridge.
They used mattresses to dampen shocks, used guardrails as ladders, and finally on the roof of a building, they used the telephone to inform rescuers of the location and asked for the attention of the helicopter.
But before they could finish, they found a group of trapped students in a room on the lower floor opposite.
Struggling, they gave up the opportunity to escape to the children.
At this point, they had no choice but to continue running to the tall buildings.
At the end of the film, it also contributed a wave of super-burning super touching pictures, here Lao Meng will not spoil, leave it to you to watch for yourself.
Disaster movies have always been heavier, but "Extreme Escape" continues the comedy style of "Extreme Occupation" at the beginning of the year, cleverly integrating comedy elements into disaster films, carrying feet and adding action elements, simply making genre films to the extreme.
Looking at the whole film, it can almost be said that there is no urine point in the whole process, especially in several urban parkours, which are nervous to the point of sweating in the palms of the hands.
But it is undeniable that the advantages and disadvantages of the film are still obvious.
There are many places in the film that don't stand up to scrutiny, such as the fact that the poison gas happened because "the chemist who was fired had a grudge."
Moreover, it is clear that the theme of this disaster film is to highlight the current dilemma of youth employment in South Korea.
Whether it is the unemployed scientist who goes to extremes, or Yongnan and his friends, even Yizhu, who is already the deputy director of the restaurant, has to endure the harassment of the store manager in order to keep her job.
However, the film does not mention how Yongnan's dilemma is caused, so that this urban parkour movement, for the protagonist, there is no opportunity for him to grow, but just to live.
He is like this now, even after saving everyone, his label is still climbing and unemployment, plus at most a successful capture of the favor of the goddess.
This is less of a contrast in the disaster film.
Including the problem of the gap between the rich and the poor mentioned many times in the film, it is only a slight brush stroke, and the biggest use is to stimulate the fighting spirit of the little man Yongnan.
Inspirational is more than enough, sharp is not enough.
On the other hand, the film does not pay much attention to the response to other parties.
Yes, we know that when the disaster occurs, the media does not care about the lives and deaths of the people, but wants to make exclusive headlines; Internet celebrities just want to use this gimmick to earn traffic and do a real "reality show".
But after that? When there is a problem, there is no solution, that is, the introduction is there, but the place that should be burned is not really lit.
That is to say, the line of the protagonist's escape in order to survive is well completed, but the impact and growth brought to the protagonist by this is not kept up in time.
But what does it matter?
While the film does have some problems, it also has a lot to praise.
First of all, its ornamentality is excellent, and I have to praise the director's ability to shoot rock climbing and parkour scenes.
In the first paragraph, yongnan in order to open the door of the hotel roof, break the window to climb from the outside of the building to the top floor, really makes people feel their hearts watching.
The angle of the lens conveys the tension of the situation to us very well, and through a large number of overall shots, the relationship between Yongnan and the environment outside the building is revealed.
Compared with the close-up view showing Yongnan's sense of tension, this practice of "being in the middle" to personally judge the tension can convey a sense of fear.
After that, I took off the safety rope in Yongnan and fought hard, and I really had a feeling of suffocation when watching "Freehand Climbing".
In addition, the setting and rhythm of the plot are well done, and the fusion of tension and comedic effects is very natural.
Whether it is the first time Yongnan climbs to the roof or the escape process between him and Yizhu again and again, it is simply a thrilling game of level-level, and there will be many additional "tasks" to solve in the middle.
Just like Yongnan found that the length of the safety rope was not enough, creating a new crisis point for the already extremely dangerous climbing, the moment the rope fell, as an audience, our hearts hung up.
For example, the two use dumbbells to create an escape rope, and the weight of the dumbbells is a problem, and hanging high in the air is also a problem.
On this basis, a smoke machine from a barbecue restaurant was added to directly suck the poison gas to the roof, forcing the escape time of the two people to almost zero.
When they are finally found by a helicopter on the roof of the building, they choose to give up because of the children trapped in a lower building opposite.
These constant twists and turns of the plot setting are not only to make the tension of the film continue to rise, but also to reflect the shining point of the humanity of the two protagonists.
At the same time, in these thrilling environments, the interspersing of comedy effects is also very natural.
One second is still nervous to the point of almost suffocation, and the next second it breaks the work and bursts into laughter, which is the movie-watching experience brought by "Extreme Escape".
Just like when the two men made their own ropes to the roof of another building, Yi Zhu first said that he was underweight first, and Yongnan asked, Is the weight of the dumbbell thrown over enough to support it?
As soon as the picture turned, Yi Zhu silently threw a dumbbell over.
Finally, the hostess has a highlight.
Unlike most disaster films, the heroine is a vase, in "Extreme Escape", Lin Yun'er's role of Yizhu is very different, she is kind, smart, courageous, strong, and even more than the male protagonist.
She evacuated customers during the disaster, guided the escape, and calmly reported the address of the trapped in the case of everyone panicking.
Later, in order to attract the attention of the helicopter, I taught everyone to use mobile phones to type the SOS distress signal, and even thought of using a large restaurant sign to increase the brightness of the distress signal.
But she is also an ordinary person, out of professional ethics, the front foot just left the opportunity to escape to the customer, turned around, but also cried and said that she wanted to get on the plane.
Overall, "Extreme Escape" as a standard popcorn commercial film, both the goddess Lin Yun'er's beauty attack without dead angles, as well as the exciting urban parkour and rock climbing.
This kind of cool and burning, indeed enough standard to call the explosive model.
Bluestone Film Editorial Office | Old Meng