"Rescue Mr. Wu", adapted from real events, has achieved Ding Sheng, who has been wandering since "Tough Guy 2", and Achieved Andy Lau who plays "Mr. Wu" and Wang Qianyuan, who plays a gangster, but Wu Ruofu, who plays the captain of the criminal police, is the real focus of this film. Because, the story of this movie comes from the kidnapping case of Wu Ruofu, which has attracted great attention.
One early morning in 2004, Wu Ruofu, an actor who had played a policeman in many police film and television dramas, was handcuffed by several strange men who called themselves policemen and drove away. The friend who was with Wu Ruofu at the time quickly called the police after he eased up, and a mysterious kidnapping case opened.
Subsequently, the Beijing police set up a special case team, and through the descriptions of Wu Ruofu's friends and other witnesses, the police realized that the modus operandi of the case was very similar to a previous kidnapping case. After the merger was handled, a person named Wang Lihua (also known as "Huazi") was seriously suspected. The police deployed the police overnight, but found no trace of him.
The kidnappers called for money, and the police, who had expanded the scope of the investigation, followed the suspect all the way, and finally caught Wang Lihua with a loaded pistol and a grenade.
During the interrogation, Wang Lihua's psychological defense line gradually collapsed, especially after the police found key evidence such as wooden keys at his girlfriend's house, Wang Lihua, who could no longer deny it, finally confessed the location where Wu Ruofu was detained. Soon, the SWAT divine soldier descended from the sky, subdued the rest of the suspects in the house in less than three seconds, and successfully rescued Wu Ruofu.
In 2005, Wang Lihua, the main culprit in Wu Ruofu's kidnapping case, and three others were executed.
Although the story adapted from the Wu Ruofu kidnapping case is involved in domestic film and television dramas such as "Six Groups of Serious Cases" and "Swat Police Force", in "Rescue Mr. Wu", the victim Wu Ruofu rescued the kidnapped "Mr. Wu" Andy Lau as a "rescuer" policeman, making this unique "drama within a play" unique and real.
I believe that the psychological trauma left by the kidnapping is indelible for a lifetime, but Wu Ruofu dared to stand up bravely more than ten years later, to recall and witness the physical and mental torture he had experienced, and this extraordinary courage and straightforward attitude are as unique as this film.
Based on real events, "Rescue Mr. Wu" does not stop at blind restoration, but carries out a series of dramatic treatments on the story, coupled with a realistic style and black humor, so that the film finds a rare balance between bold avant-garde and danger.
Ding Sheng is a peculiar domestic director, the ability to control small spaces and small patterns has reached the point of pure fire, "Rescue Mr. Wu" is impeccable evidence, but the mediocrity of "Railway Flying Tiger", "Reverse Life", especially "Hero's True Colors 2018", also makes the audience gradually realize the strengths and shortcomings of "special director" Ding Sheng.
Wang Qianyuan's image of a fierce bandit is still fresh in people's minds, and the fierceness and cunning that inadvertently leaked out made me shudder from time to time. Liu Ye's experiential skills helped him become a real criminal policeman, and in the confrontation with Wang Qianyuan, the unique sharpness and concentration of the police made the realism of this film another level.
In addition to those self-deprecating and self-consumption jokes, Andy Lau's acting skills in this film are amazing, after all, compared with the flamboyant and open performance style in Hong Kong films, the calmness that has always been in an unstable state in "Rescue Mr. Wu" is actually difficult to grasp.
Andy Lau does not leave a trace, the inner fear and the appearance of calm, intuitively presented to the audience.
Under the sharp editing and compact plot, "Rescue Mr. Wu" cleanly staged an excellent police and bandit battle, and several leading actors played beyond expectations, making the film look extremely real and extremely cruel.