Speaking of summer movies in 2019, it has become a special show for many sequel movies. Before
, there was "Chasing the Dragon 2", and after "Sweeping Drugs 2: Heaven and Earth Showdown", Gu Tianle appeared on the screen of these sequels like a shadow.
Soon, Louis Koo’s third sequel movie "Walker Walker 2" was released.
is a sequel, the film actually does not need to make up for the pressure of homework, because the story of this sequel is re-written. The story of
is new, but the main creative team of the film has been completely retained: director Wen Weihong, screenwriter Guan Haoyue, starring Zhang Jiahui, Louis Koo and Wu Zhenyu, even the production company is the Shaw Brothers. The advantage of
is that it retains the three cores of the previous game: brother + reversal + gunfight.
was inherited along with the main creative team, as well as the Rubik's Cube from the previous work.
The third-order Rubik's Cube becomes the fifth-order Rubik's Cube, which means that the whole story becomes more complicated and more confusing.
There were two consecutive incidents of car crashing into pedestrians on the streets of Hong Kong. A female hacker warned the police before the attack, but did not receive attention.
When she came to Cheng Tao played by Zhang Jiahui and Ye Guofan played by Wu Zhenyu, she revealed that a foreign organization had infiltrated the global police organization. In subsequent related investigations, not only did an unknown assailant interrupt the investigation at a critical moment, but the assailants dared to attack the protagonist with guns in broad daylight.
According to the female hacker’s confession, Cheng Tao and Ye Guofan firmly believed that there was a ghost in the organization.
Jing Jinxian, who has the closest relationship with them, became their biggest suspect.
The attitude of the female hacker and her boss after the failed investigation is also very intriguing.
Yes, the biggest highlight of the film this time is the reversal again and again.
Even Cheng Tao and Ye Guofan, a pair of superiors and subordinates under the same roof, made their relationship unpredictable because of undisclosed secrets.
is the same as the title "Apostle Walker":
Apostle, a believer with a special mission; Walker, a lonely and penance outside. Each character in the film
is like an "Apostle Walker", hovering on the edge of justice and evil. This scene also constitutes the English title "The Sideline Walker".
The only thing to break through all these obstacles is brotherhood that transcends interests and evil.
From this point of view, the main creative team has not forgotten to maintain the tribute to the core theme while continuing to write the film.
But you must not think that the creative team only worked on the plot.
, as the action director Qian Jiale of the 8th Academy Awards, this time he used breathless scenes in the film to "explode" a period of thick brotherhood.
not to mention that they created their own action scenes based on the screen images of the two characters of Gu Zhang; in the crash scene, dozens of cars were used for shooting, just to make the most satisfactory car scene effect.
Regarding this, even Zhang Jiahui couldn’t help but vomit:
“He may cost more to produce this time, and there are a lot more tricks.”
Gu Tianle said, “Director Qian (Jia Le) must find one. I was only happy when the car hit me once, and it gave me a feeling of being crushed."
wants to do tricks but not just action directors. The director himself has long turned his attention from Hong Kong to the outside world.
looked at the crowded streets of Burmese, he thought of letting multiple cars collide in a series, and let the two Gu Zhang and the attacker set up a fight on the street. In the end,
not only caused a grenade to blow the car group into the sky, but also made the helicopter that came to rescue like "Black Hawk Down", fled in a rush of bullets. After
, the director's eyes drifted to the Spanish town of Pamplona, thousands of miles away. There is no other reason for
, there is a huge and crazy festival-Running of the Bulls Festival.
The hoofs and roars of running bulls are in sight, and the crowds running on the streets of the small town are bumped by the running bulls one by one. The unique madness of
Bull Run has infected the director, and it also made the director decide to put the climax of the film here.
can feel across the screenThe pain that came, and the desperate racing with the brothers in the bull run, constituted a sense of suffocation on the edge of walking. The use of such a big scene like
is enough to link "Apostle Walker 2" with Hollywood blockbusters such as "Mission Impossible" and "The Bourne Shadow". It can be seen that the film's investment in the scene is internationalized.
At the same time, it is also the first live-action filming of the Bull Run.
Under these big scenes with strong characteristics, there is also a tribute to the classic Hong Kong movies by the creative team.
, especially between Zhang Jiahui, Koo Tianle and Wu Zhenyu, either drew their guns or fought side by side behind their backs.
is decorated with white pigeons and slow-motion cameras, and fragments of various classic Hong Kong-style movies such as Wu Yusen and Johnnie To have popped up in my mind.
Above this point, the choreographer boldly applied the classic ending of "The True Colors of Heroes" to the two to further illustrate the deep brotherhood between the two. In other words,
can put it more simply: the film pays tribute to Laogang films, it can be said to be full of sincerity.
It is said that a hidden easter egg about the film is that each character poster has a Morse code, and the combination is a sentence about the core theme.
"Be a brother, in the heart".
On the movie posters, Zhang, Gu and Wu each accounted for one third of the posters.
The positions of Zhang Jiahui and Louis Koo on the posters are more prominent than those of Wu Zhenyu. Judging from the effect of the film, this is undoubtedly a hint of careful thought. As for what this hint is, you will understand after watching the movie.
Those who have watched Hong Kong movies from the golden age are no strangers to this unique oriental brotherhood.
The fate of men, the love-hate brotherhood, these were established in Chow Yun-fat's "The True Colors of Heroes". The brothers Cheng Tao played by Zhang Jiahui and Jing Jinxian played by Koo Tianle in the
film, the brotherhood they established in childhood seems to have brought the screen back to more than 30 years ago.
But having said that, the courage to choose a brother-themed movie to be shown on the Chinese Valentine's Day is very impressive. This effect looks pretty good. After 21 hours of release, the box office broke 160 million. In addition to a good start to
, perhaps it also contains a blessing to the lovers:
This is not to make the brotherhood in the movie full; on the contrary, it is the touch of brotherhood that lovers will cherish. Good time during the Qixi Festival.
Bluestone Film Editor | Shi Shu
