This is a very rare non-Jackie Chan movie.
There are no funny plots and actions, no beauties and clowns, and the effect is a serious social topic and a tense and solemn atmosphere.
It is completely different from the Jackie Chan seen in "Police Story" and "A Plan" in the past, losing his consistent treasure and being replaced by a serious book.
Its name is "Serious Crimes Unit", which crowned Jackie Chan as the Golden Horse Film Emperor, and it is also a real Hong Kong police film.
"Major Crimes Unit" is based on real events.
Hong Kong billionaire Wang Dehui was kidnapped in April 1983 and released after his wife Gong Ruxin paid a ransom of $11 million.
Seven years later, Zhong Weizheng, a retired sergeant of the Hong Kong Police Force, saw the case in the case file and found that the kidnappers were clever in their methods, but they were arrested only after having flaws in several important links, so they joined forces with the gang to re-plan the kidnapping case.
Later, Gong Ruxin transferred $60 million to the kidnappers and, under the investigation of the police, arrested six main criminals, including Zhong Weizheng, between 1991 and 1993.
However, Wang Dehui disappeared, and some suspects said that he was dumped on the high seas and drowned, but his body was not found until 1999, when the Hong Kong High Court declared That Wang Dehui legally dead.
I thought it was over.
However, Gong Ruxin never gave up looking for her husband and always believed that Wang Dehui was still alive.
After some robbers were released from prison, they called Gong Ruxin and said that Gong Ruxin was imprisoned somewhere in Asia, and Gong Ruxin sent people to search for him many times, but returned empty-handed.
On April 3, 2007, Gong Ru died of heart disease, and on April 13, 10 days later, an obituary was published in major newspapers, but the person who declared it was Wang Dehui himself.
For a while, public opinion was in an uproar, and this kidnapping case that caused a sensation in Hong Kong has not yet been resolved.
With the support of realistic cases, the script of "Major Crimes Unit" is relatively solid.
In the movie, there is both the scheming black police officer Hong Ye (played by Zheng Zeshi) and the young and flexible police officer Chen Assistant (played by Jackie Chan).
The duel between the two people, there are back and forth, and it is also rare to join the psychological game, no longer a flat and straightforward catch thief, escape, and then catch the thief, a straight line of development.
A successful police film, first of all, the villain must stand, and then can start a match with the righteous side, a wonderful duel.
In "Serious Case Group", although Zheng Zeshi's body posture is bloated and his appearance is ordinary, it does not prevent him from using superb acting skills to play the fierce, yin and poisonous role of Hong Ye.
He co-orchestrated the kidnapping of the billionaire Huang Yifei (played by Lo Ka Ying) with local Hong Kong communities and Taiwanese gangsters.
Whenever the Hong Kong police found some clues, he could always use his superior courage and strategy to erase these clues and let the case develop in the direction he planned.
When Assistant Chen discovered his plan, he used another trick to steal beams and change pillars and borrow knives to kill people, clearing his suspicions and making the case confusing.
Different from the previous Hong Kong police films, you can guess the ending by looking at the beginning, and you only need to pay attention to whether there are jokes and big scenes throughout the whole process.
The confrontation between good and evil in "Serious Crime Group" allows the audience to jump out of the framework of traditional police films and pay attention to the game between black police and police, the game between black police and gangsters, and the game inside the gang.
Of course, the climax of "Major Crimes Unit" is the last explosion scene filmed in the Kowloon City Walled City, which blew up an entire unit of the building.
If it is now generally used to use a bomb model or special effects to complete, Jackie Chan really blew up a building, although after the explosion, the Kowloon City Wall was demolished.
Jackie Chan had never applied for an explosion permit at all, and he knew that even if he applied, he would not be able to pass the approval, so he simply let 15 cameras shoot secretly.
The whole explosion process, the actor's reaction and explosion are real, because the only people who know that they want to blow up the building are Jackie Chan and another lead actor, Zheng Zeshi.
Unfortunately, Hong Kong movies full of vitality like this can no longer be seen.
The changes of the times, the development of special effects technology, and the standardization of film shooting, the once lifeless shooting has long been unrealistic.
Those fist-to-flesh movements have also been replaced by dazzling stunts, and the audience prefers to watch the sky and the sword fly, while the scene of fighting in a small space is slightly thin at the moment.
In the end, Chinese kung fu films failed to rely on Jackie Chan and their group of people to go to the world, but were assimilated by mainstream Hollywood movies, which is a regrettable result.
However, the changes brought by "Major Crimes Unit" to Hong Kong films cannot be ignored, and it is a watershed for Hong Kong police films.
Before that, most of the police films were simple arrangements and combinations of commercial elements, such as story underworld + wife and daughter scattered police + brainless gunfight + hundreds of millions of transactions + soft pornography.
Later Hong Kong police films, the confrontation between good and evil no longer simply rely on gun battles to advance, with more realistic styles and psychological games, such as "Black Gold", "Dark War", "Infernal Affairs" and so on.
This shift has directly elevated Hong Kong police films to an intrinsic level of emphasis, rather than blindly focusing on the market and piecing together according to the formula.
It's just that this innovation is not easy to come by.
The release of "Huang Feihong's Ambition" in 1991 made Jet Li famous and became another kung fu superstar with box office appeal.
The rich and powerful Jiahe naturally will not let go of this "fragrant food", And David Luo has become his agent, but he never thinks about Jet Li and arbitrarily deducts his film remuneration and living expenses.
For this reason, Jet Li protested many times, but because of his weak strength, he always lost, and finally fought for his rights when "Huang Feihong's Boy When He Was Self-Strengthening" was about to be killed.
At this time, Jet Li wanted to compete with the mountain of Jiahe, and he must have a strong backer, and Cai Ziming, the owner of Fuyi Company, appeared at the right time.
In the Netherlands, he was rich and powerful, and came forward to settle the matter, not only that, Cai Ziming also became Jet Li's agent.
He planned for Jet Li to go international, tailor-made films such as "New Dragon Gate Inn" and "Major Crime Unit".
But on April 16, 1992, several gunshots at the elevator entrance of The Art Company turned the dream into a phantom, and "The Major Crimes Unit" was stranded.
Jiahe found Jackie Chan to save the scene, and the title of the film was changed from "Beast Police" to "Serious Crime Team".
However, the film was not successfully filmed, and in the process, Jackie Chan and director Huang Zhiqiang had a great contradiction because of the concept of disagreement.
Huang Zhiqiang has always liked to add elements of sex and violence to his films, and even if it is until the point, Jackie Chan feels uncomfortable, so he kicks him out of the game and Chen Zhihua takes over the direction.
However, the style still continues the realistic category, and does not join the action comedy that Jackie Chan is good at, and these sacrifices have also brought Jackie Chan a trophy of the Golden Horse Movie Emperor.
In addition to the movie itself, Jackie Chan's acting skills in the film should be seen.
Jackie Chan at the beginning of the movie proves that action actors can also have acting skills, and their eyes can also convey emotions.
After work, Assistant Chen ben wandered home on the street, but on the way he encountered bandits who robbed the bank, this group of bandits armed with ak, fierce fire, the surrounding people were shot.
When Assistant Chen saw the situation, he first risked his life to help the pregnant woman who had fallen by the side of the car to a safe position, and then drew his gun and dueled with the bandits.
In the next plot, Jackie Chan uses his eyes to make the emotions progress three times.
The first time was after Deputy Chen killed one of the bandits and continued to chase the remaining two bandits.
He jumped from the roof of a van to the back of the car driven by the bandits and fired two shots inside, at this time there was no movement in the car, but Assistant Chen held the gun and never fell.
His eyes were full of panic and panic, he couldn't believe that he had killed the bandit with his own hands, and he was worried that the bandit was still alive, so he didn't dare to come closer, his dilated pupils kept staring at the car, and his body trembled involuntarily.
The second time was when Assistant Chen plucked up the courage to walk to the front of the car to see if the bandits were dead.
He first looked in through the hole in the rear window, and then there was tension and fear in his eyes.
Because he is difficult to determine whether his next move is correct, whether he will let himself die on the spot, so he will be anxious, will be depressed, will hesitate to open the front door, which triggered the last emotion.
Deputy Chen saw that the two people lying upside down in the car were motionless, and his hanging heart finally relaxed for a while.
The bandits who suddenly approached the car window grabbed Assistant Chen, panicked him to the extreme, fired several random shots, and accidentally killed him.
Watching the hideous-looking corpse fall beside him, Assistant Chen's eyes tried his best to dodge, not daring to look directly at this scene.
His psychological endurance has reached the point of collapse, so his eyes no longer have the steadfastness when he first caught the thief, but are replaced by trepidation and entanglement and hesitation.
He began to question the legitimacy of what he was doing, and he was a little shaken by the identity of the police, whether he should do it or not.
This layer of eye drama is also one of the few clips of Jackie Chan's big brother to show psychological drama, and it is also conveyed through the eyes, so those who say that Jackie Chan has no acting skills can be stopped.
Jackie Chan in the 90s has reached a very high position.
However, in such a high position can still accept change, although later movies proved that Jackie Chan's transformation road was a failure, but his heart and sincerity deserve respect.
In fact, he has long reached the age of retirement, the status of film history is enough, and the money earned is enough, but looking at his film list, it has been scheduled to 2023.
The reason is not because of love.