He can be popular for a lifetime.
The golden age of Hong Kong action movies came to an end in the 1990s, but in the past two years, with the resurgence of Hong Kong police and gangster movies, such as "Chasing the Dragon", "Sweeping Drugs", and "Wu Shuang" and other explosions frequently appeared. Few people rekindled hope for Hong Kong movies.
is disappointing. Only one "Drug Fighting 2 Heaven and Earth Showdown" can tell you how popular Hong Kong action movies are, which contrasts how barren the Chinese movie market is.
This year's mainland theaters are really not good. Temporary withdrawals for unknown reasons, violent upgrades and even "naked" staged successively.
In addition to the Lunar New Year blockbusters "Wandering Earth", "Crazy Aliens" and "Flying Life", the top ten movie box office charts in 2019 have only one Taiwanese film "A Story More Sad Than Sad" and a Hong Kong film " The Chinese film market is not optimistic about the finalists of "Anti-drug 2 World Showdown".
With "Eight Hundred", "Young You", "Little Wish" and other successive withdrawals, the scheming "Sweeping Drugs 2" has changed its release schedule three times, first from July 12 to July 19. Nine days before the release, it was announced that the file will be raised to July 5.
was released for 11 days, and the box office of the movie was nearly 1 billion, reaching the highest expectations of producer Andy Lau.
Judging from the Douban scores, over 200,000 people have seen "Sweeping Drugs" rated 7.4 points, and "Sweeping Drugs 2" has over 70,000 viewed ratings of 6.2 points, and then compared with box office results, it is expected to exceed 1 billion and 237 million. gap. The trend of
's "anti-drug" series is precisely the tastelessness of Hong Kong's action movies in the past two years: one is to shoot badly local-created IP, and the other is to forcefully implant political correctness.
did not expect that the "anti-drug" series was also forced into this embarrassing situation. The director Qiu Litao replaced Chen Musheng's work and the reputation of the work declined, and the Hong Kong police did not accompany him during the entire process. The sequel to popular Hong Kong movies that have almost nothing to do with the original plot continue to proliferate. Hong Kong's action movies dominated by police and criminals (after all, pure gang movies are also prohibited) have fluctuating levels, or do not conceal their desire for money, or nothing. Do not hesitate to waste your efforts.
is like Wang Jing and Qiu Litao, who have the talent to make good movies, but they don't mind making quick movies and making quick money. Like Louis Koo and Andy Lau, they obviously have the vision and acting skills for selecting films, but they are also willing to make bad films to feed back Hong Kong films and public welfare undertakings. The obvious feature of the
Hong Kong film Kitakami is that there is a lack of unexpected innovation in the genre and themes, and the setting of the characters in the story tends to change the soup without changing the medicine. At the same time, the directors, actors and other main creative lineups are even more expensive.
Whether it is Wang Jing, Qiu Litao, To Qifeng, Chen Musheng, etc. of the director lineup, or Leung Ka Fai, Andy Lau, Chow Yun-fat, Yen Zidan, etc., who are the leading lineup, almost all of them are "old directors" and "old actors" who are close to or over 50. .
They have already passed their prime, but they have to become the backbone of Hong Kong movies. In the
anti-drug series, the actor-level lineup ranges from Liu Qingyun, Koo Tianle and Zhang Jiahui's three heroes to the confrontation between Andy Lau and Koo Tianle, and Miao Qiaowei, the representative of the justice police.
The first three are selfish but insist on fighting for justice, showing flesh and blood "humanity", while the latter three are the solidification of "personal settings" that act violently in the name of justice and are flimsy and paranoid. The deaths of Liu Qingyun and Zhang Jiahui in
's previous work "Anti-Drugs" were heroic and violent aesthetics, while the shooting and killing of Andy Lau and Louis Koo in "Anti-Drugs 2" was the result of forcibly controlling violence with violence.
At the same time, Yu Shuntian (played by Andy Lau) and Hong Kong’s largest drug dealer Jizo (played by Gu Tianle) were born in the Hong Kong gang. Their brotherhood for more than 20 years lacks foreshadowing. The hatred is based on Yu Shuntian’s son who died from drugs and his wife who was accidentally shot.
The struggle between the two villains who eat their own evil results makes it difficult for the audience to sympathize. What's more, the son is the son Yu Shuntian has never known about his existence, and the wife is also a wife who knows nothing about Yu Shuntian's true identity. In addition to the death of the policeman played by Miao Qiaowei, his wife, colleagues, and daughter’s girlfriends of
, it is not difficult to see that Qiu Litao is keen to use the death of the characters in the film to promote the development of the plot, and without restraint, it is difficult to form a force sufficient for tears. .
This is also a pity. Every actor's acting skills are bursting, but in the story of "Sweeping Drugs 2", it is bright and abrupt, and it seems to be separated from each other.
In short, the violent action paragraphs in the form of the movie "Anti-Drug 2"It is carefully arranged, but the internal brotherhood and confrontation between the police and the robbers seem far-fetched.
Fortunately, there are also a generation of celebrities such as Andy Lau, Tony Leung, Tony Leung, Louis Koo and others who are active in front of the big screen in Hong Kong movies. It seems that if they don't retreat, they won't be old. If they are not old, Hong Kong movies won't die.
In the slightly cold summer file, another Hong Kong police action film "Apostle Walker 2: Operation Bourne" has been filed until August 9th. The male gods are Zhang Jiahui, Koo Tianle and Wu Zhenyu.
can't help but look forward to, where are the newcomers?
