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The summer slot of 2021 is almost really "game over" because of the "epidemic" coming back. After the withdrawal of the most anticipated war blockbuster "Chosin Lake", other films such as "Pipilu and The Canned Villain of Lusisi" were also withdrawn, resulting in basically no blockbusters released since August.
Among the domestic movies that are being released, in addition to the animated blockbuster "White Snake 2", which has been released for more than half a month, there are youth films "Midsummer Future" and police action blockbusters "Fury Cases".
Among them, the best word-of-mouth, quality and box office results are undoubtedly the late directors Chen Musheng, Zhen Zidan, Xie Tingfeng starring in "The Fury Case", just in terms of the film box office. The box office performance of the film can only be said to be average, and at that time, a platform predicted that it was only about 1 billion.
But then the word of mouth and quality of the film exploded, and a platform predicted that the box office had reached about 1.3 billion, which was almost the same as the level of Hong Kong commercial blockbusters that had sold in the market in recent years, such as "Peerless", "Sweeping Drugs 2" and "Bomb Disposal Expert 2".
However, because of the "epidemic", the film has naturally been greatly affected, resulting in a certain degree of contraction at the box office. The predicted box office has also shrunk from more than 1.3 billion to now difficult to break 1 billion, although this is an accident and it is definitely more important than the box office "epidemic prevention".
But this movie that returns to the peak of Hong Kong police action movies is still a bit of a pity.
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After I personally watched this movie for the first time, my heart was a little unstable, and although Chen Musheng and Zhen Zidan's cooperation was still flawed, it was really top, and it seemed to vent the anger accumulated by Hong Kong films for many years.
The advantages of this film are very obvious, and it can be said that it is too obvious to be obvious.
1, Tse Ting-feng's return is a surprise, I hope he does not return to the film circle as a cook, can not say to support Hong Kong films but at least can contribute some works.
Nicholas Tse's acting skills are easy to grasp, and Ao is obviously a role tailored for Xie, cool with fierceness, evil with charm, this temperament fills the whole film. The performance is just right, tender and mature, in one sentence: Nicholas Tse is much more exciting than his movie of the film Emperor!
For example, in the scene of the courtroom's internal trial, Tse Tingfeng's performance here is really good, there is no line, all rely on the eyes and facial expressions, the performance is in place, there are layers, from the beginning of anxious waiting, to the disgusting glare of the rich businessman and the boss, and then to the last glimmer of hope for the key testimony of the lord of the state, to the surprise, unwillingness, and then to the final helpless sigh.
He had seen through the inconsistencies between the faces of these officials and businessmen, that he had done his best for the police but could not exchange a word of help, that he was completely dead to the police, and that at this moment he had vowed to repay everyone. At the end, Ah Ao's defeat has been decided, Xie Tingfeng dragged his painful body, still roaring angrily and admitting defeat and not admitting his fate, although he was defeated, he did not want to go to the cell again to be judged by you, and played the poor character who complained about the unfair fate into a full and three-dimensional way.
In terms of action scenes, Nicholas Tse's action performance has taken a big step forward. Before "Fury Case", Nicholas Tse had not acted in action movies, such as "New Shaolin Temple", "Dragon and Tiger Gate", etc., the best action before was Wang Xiaohu, and after "Fury Case", it must be Qiu Gang'ao, and even many years later.
Nicholas Tse's performance has been to the extreme, and really as everyone said, Zhen Zidan has left all the best action design to him. The favorite action scenes are the torture and killing of Lu Huiguang and the motorcycle chase scene, the former is like Ajie who kills the wolf, fierce and cool; the latter is tense and exciting, too hot and too hot, like the shot of the motorcycle breaking through the railing, it is too beautiful.
2, Zhen Zidan's action design may not surpass "Kill the Wolf" and "Fuse", but Zhen Zidan, who is serious, has contributed the most wonderful action design in the past decade.
The film is a first-class action director meets a first-class police film director, and the action scenes are really fully upgraded. Gunfights, blasting, flying cars, weapon/fist-and-kick duels, all, from breakthroughs in design to ingenious tributes.
Breaking through the seamless fusion of Zhen Zidan kung fu and police and bandit big scenes, the ultimate authenticity and coherence of martial arts design, no slow-motion dissection, no buffer time for the audience at all, the direct technique of one-time presentation, more cheerful, more violent and shocking.
There is a tribute to the street battle baton of "Kill the Wolf" against the short knife, but this time the short knife is more ferocious and swift, but Zhen Zidan's movement is slow; the form of holding the stick and holding the horse, shaking his head and glaring at it is similar to Chen Zhen; the heavy punch in the sewer is also Zhen Zidan's signature action, but the strength is stronger and the visual impact is greater.
Borrowing the wall cross solid, the novel design is more smooth and silky, and some of the design is left to Nicholas Tse, a short knife fancy torture. That kind of raw incense itself will only make itself stand still, and only surpassing yourself is a true tribute to yourself!
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The quality of this movie is really good, but there are still a few regrets. Of course, these deficiencies do not affect the fact that "Fury Case" is a rare police commercial action blockbuster, just hope it can be better.
1, the storyline, some scene scheduling is also almost.
For example, the beginning is not heavy enough, a bit chaotic, and the action scene of the abandoned mall is obviously weaker than the back. After all, director Chen Musheng is gone, and there are many small problems in editing.
There was some inconsistency before and after the gunfight scene, such as the explosion of the underground passage that everyone felt the same way, and Dan ge in front of the creeps did not explode; the street police and bandits chased the scene on both sides, Dan Ge raised his hand to signal to stop, and the next picture ran again.
In addition, like a large number of black screen transitions really affect the substitution, the emotions are on top of it, and the result is cut off, which is seen by quite a few people. The brother raised the sign and the death was not clearly explained, and the worship of the Xie gang in front of the thief's nest to honor the brother and the spirit seat appeared to be very weak, which undermined the integrity of the story; the heroine Qin Lan played a pitiful role.
2, the arrangement of the character relationship is not clever enough, there may be a deletion relationship, but think carefully about the regrets.
For example, the relationship between Ah Ao and the lord of the state can be portrayed more uniquely, and enough empathy can be generated after receiving a box lunch, you can look at the streets of the storm troops who are also chen's works, and the character portrayal of Liu Qingyun and Wu Zhenyu is very simple, profound and unconventional.
The teacher-friendly/brotherly love between the lord of the state and Ah Ao is too peaceful, the love is not deep, it is difficult to support the surprise and anger of the villain, and the tension between the two males is not strong enough; the confession of the Ao team is "the criminal fell to his death", it is a false confession, from the look in Xie Tingfeng's eyes and the nod of the eyes, he believes that the lord of the state will help them, but this trust lacks enough deep emotional preparation, I personally feel that this is the biggest failure in the storyline, it is a pity.
At that time, when the body of the prince was found in the police station for 46 hours, there was a scene where the boss was angrily holding a club, and this moment with BGM remembered that it was like a horse army possessed, the result was just to break the video recorder, always felt that this plot was very strange, it was easy to make people raise their emotions.
3, literary drama and martial arts are a little hasty, slightly weak, there is a feeling of unfolding a little to better feel
This question is the problem of the whole movie, like the fate rhetoric issued by Ao without the proper picture support, the sadness of the fate of the confusion is not fully highlighted, the anger of Ao is not fully exploded, and the audience's empathy for the character's love and hate has not been pushed to the peak.
For example, the action design played too fast, Xie Tingfeng should play a little longer after flying to stab the hand, but the twisted hand stopped, the ignition stopped abruptly, and the audience still had a feeling of not having enough to enjoy.
The police and bandit double male film is to watch the confrontation between good and evil, the star drama, the plot tension, at this point the literary drama is obviously Xie Tingfeng is better, Zhen Zidan is still weaker, slightly pale in the complex psychological portrayal from the outside in, such as Yao Sir's crying scene after the death of Dan feels like a hard squeeze of tears.
The interrogation room was full of drama, and I felt that Zhen Zidan was a bit unable to catch Xie Tingfeng; the court testimony did not show the complex psychology of justice and emotional contradictions; after the close-up, Zhen Zidan's weaknesses in literary drama were fully revealed, and perhaps it would be better to change the tactful side-display shooting method.
Although the action design has been very bunkered, it can be said that it is the top of the fashion action film should be undisputed, but for the martial arts film fans, I still feel some regrets.
For example, the master brother Lin Guobin did not come in vain this time, playing very fiercely but slightly shorter, and the audience felt that he did not play much and went offline.
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The quality of Hong Kong films has been criticized over the years, and the decline of Hong Kong films has been an indisputable fact, from the "Cold War" series, "Equator", "Chasing the Dragon", "Peerless", "Sweeping Drugs" series, "Bomb Disposal Expert" series, and now "Furious Case", it can be seen that Hong Kong police films want to revive the ambitions of the past glory, but also difficult to hide the various struggles facing the bottleneck of creation.
The lack of Hong Kong actors and action actors, the large number of moviegoers, and the difficulty of innovating action design have forced the market capacity of action movies to become very small. Whether we can still see such a pure Hong Kong film masterpiece many years later depends on whether the backbone of Zhen Zidan/Nicholas Tse can drive the gears of Hong Kong film recovery.
Finally, some of the shortcomings in the text and drama of this film are because the length and scale of the film have been deleted, and the content of the deletion is that Xie Tingfeng was tortured by prison crimes after they were imprisoned, and they were persecuted again by their superiors. This also explains why the face of the prince has changed like this, why he is transgender and incompetent, why one of them has committed suicide, and so on.
This increases the tragedy of Nicholas Tse and the rationality of the plot of becoming an evil person, precisely because the lack of this part makes us vaguely feel in the later stage that the director expresses not only the opposition between good and evil, black and white, especially the last sentence that Nicholas Tse said at the end: If you change to me, you have no choice.
I think that if there is no deletion, it is the real meaning of the director, Nicholas Tse and Zhen Zidan are two tragic characters. They were persecuted differently and went down different paths. In the end, because of their respective beliefs, the biggest villains are actually the cannibalistic rich and corrupt top brass in Hong Kong.
If it were true that the score would be higher as rumored, it would obviously be more powerful.
But no matter what, the current "Fury Case" is also very good. Because when some audiences hate it for not being good enough, it is only afraid that it is already the best song of Hong Kong fashion action movies.