"Sweeping Drugs 2: Battle Between Heaven and Earth" since its release on July 5, as of today, has achieved a box office of over 1.2 billion. From the box office alone, "Sweeping Drugs 2" is by far the biggest winner of summer domestic films.
The film has a strong lineup, with Andy Lau and Louis Koo acting as the two actors, Miao Qiaowei, Zheng Zeshi, Lin Jiaxin, Zhou Xiuna, Ouyang Jing, Lin Jiadong, and Ying Caier. There has never been a shortage of stars in Hong Kong movies. Although the actors are a bit unreliable, but because of the prosperity of Hong Kong movies in the last century, a large number of outstanding filmmakers have been trained. In the 20 years since entering the new century, Hong Kong movies still have a number of box office calls. Strong characters exist.
The subject matter of the film is still related to "drugs", which has been the main drama in Hong Kong police and criminal films in recent years. It is also because there are too many such works, making it difficult to make new ideas in movies. The same is true of "Anti-Drug 2", you will know the development and ending of the story from the beginning. Compared with the 134 minutes of the first "Sweeping Drugs", "Sweeping Drugs 2" only has 99 minutes. In fact, the length of the film can also explain the quality of a film in a sense. Generally, commercial films are within 100 minutes. After all, commercial films are for making money, or even quick money, so they may only use a very short time to make a film. Time, and then the big cost is in marketing and publicity. But think about it carefully, in such a short time, to tell a story well, it really tests the director and screenwriter's skills. Many people are disappointed with more domestic films because the director and the film company are just trying to collect money. Many imported films and films with good reputation are 2 hours or longer. After all, the development of a story needs to be foreshadowed, conflicted, and climaxed, rather than the director can establish it with a few lines of course.
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Yu Shuntian (Andy Lau), originally a young and Dangerous boy, later broke away from the gang to enter business and became a successful businessman.
extremely hates drugs.
His father was addicted to drugs and he didn't number his mother very much, which caused Yu Shuntian to live in a big shadow since childhood.
Childhood experience always affects a person's pattern. Certain preferences and patterns that a person grows up are developed in childhood.
's father died of poison, and Yu Shuntian was even more distressed that his only son jumped off the building and died. The point is that his current wife cannot bear children.
There are some things, and if you hurt, you want to change.
Yu Shuntian is not only rich, but also gangster forces.
He wants to eliminate all drug dealers in Hong Kong, unscrupulously.
Jizo (Gu Tianle), Ben and Yu Shuntian are a gang. Because his younger brother was trafficking in drugs, most of the elders punished him with family law and chopped off his right hand finger. The executor is his respected brother Yu Shuntian. The pain of
framing can lead to extremes. Since you say that I am a drug dealer, I will be the biggest drug dealer in Hong Kong.
buried deep hatred in his heart, and started to run a drug business, and he did well.
However, his hatred for Yu Shuntian has also increased unabated. He was misunderstood by people he respected, and the other party cut off his fingers indiscriminately.
Yu Shuntian hired people to hunt down Hong Kong drug dealers, and his point also angered Ksitigarbha.
Jizo not only killed Yu Shuntian's favorite horse, but also shot Yu Shuntian's wife.
The conflict between the two escalated.
Yu Shuntian told reporters 100 million Hong Kong dollars as a bonus for killing the biggest drug dealer in Hong Kong. The lure of huge bonuses makes the drug dealers chased by his own little brother, and the drug dealer played by Caier Ying in the film is forced to flee to the police station for protection.
as a counterattack, Ji Zang in the underworld issued 110 million Hong Kong dollars as a bonus for killing Yu Shuntian.
reached a climax with violence against violence. Although
is a society under the rule of law, we all like to see violence against violence. For the bad guys, we hope that his ending will be miserable and miserable. The more brutal he is, the more excited we are, so that it can also bring our joy.
is just like Jia Zhangke's movie "The Destiny" in which the protagonists in the film fought back against the persecution of others and killed people directly, which made people feel very relieved. In real life, many people are violated and often have no way to defend their rights. Even if there are ways, the procedures are complicated. Even bad guys who have ways will make the victims become perpetrators and be punished. The reason why the "Water Margin" in the four great masterpieces of
is popular with many people is that the heroes in it use violence to control violence, and do not stand the restrictions of the government, and can't use their own fists to beat and hold them.level.
is like the popularity of short videos now, because people like instant feedback. The use of violence to control violence has achieved this, without having to go through lengthy collection of evidence and trials, and directly violently solve the problem.
In the end, Jizo applied for police protection and was about to leave Hong Kong. Yu Shuntian led people to block, and went to a subway chasing scene with Di Zang, which is also the biggest highlight of the film.
In a duel between Ji Zang, Yu Shuntian and Miao Qiaowei as the police, Ji Zang and Yu Shuntian are shot and the film ends.
The story of the film is fairly complete, and the actors' acting skills are also pretty good. In recent years, Louis Koo’s role has been too homogenized, but the film still shows Gu Zai’s efforts. Hua Tsai is also conscientiously starring, although there is no breakthrough, but at least the performance is in place. Lin Jiaxin used to feel average, but found that as he got older, the acting became more and more flavorful. I believe there will be excellent works in the future.
However, the structure of the film is a bit scattered, and the characters mostly distract the focus of the story. Hong Kong police movies always portray a policeman, but Miao Qiaowei plays a lot of police roles, but he does not highlight his character. On the contrary, it took up the time of Ji Zang and Yu Shuntian, resulting in the film not being full of the two people, and even shortening the duel between the two. And you should know that the biggest highlight of this film should be this duel, but the rounds of the duel in this film are a bit small, which makes the film's reputation and excitement not high. The film quality of
"Sweeping Drugs 2" can only be considered a pass, and the box office now ranks sixth this year. Excluding economic factors, it can only show that the quality of movies in the first half of this year is generally sluggish, and there is a lack of high reputation. In addition to "Wandering Earth", "Crazy Aliens" and "Flying Life" during the New Year period, domestic films are the only four films with a box office of over 1 billion so far.
hopes that high-scoring works will appear in the film market in the second half of the year.
