"The Point of the Knife" is backed by Mai Jia's original work, so the story is indistinguishable. Director Gao Qunshu directed the best domestic spy film "The Wind". Mai Jia + Gao Qunshu are a double guarantee, and it is destined that the movie "The Point of the Knife" will hardly become a bad movie.
But "Point of the Knife" was not very good and turned out to be a bad movie. What else can I say, I can’t complain anymore.
It’s clear why when watching the movie. The reason is that the scale of the original work is too grand, and Gao Qunshu is reluctant to make major deletions or changes, so that the movie seems too bloated and the story is too scattered. The story to be told at the beginning of the film and the content to be told at the end are completely incompatible. Forcibly cramming an entire TV series into one movie is very tiring to watch and seriously drags down the quality of the movie.
For a movie to be good-looking, there must be some choices and emphasis. Either tell people or tell stories. If you want to achieve both, it depends on whether the chosen actors are accurate and can accurately convey the main theme of the story while showing superb acting skills.
The story of "The Point of the Knife" is too complicated, the story characters and actors are obviously not well chosen, and Zhang Yi's performance is not up to standard.
Jin Shenshui, played by Zhang Yi, is said to have a complete growth line. A doctor who escaped from the Nanjing Massacre joined the military in order to kill the Japanese, and was then sent to work as an agent in the Security Department of the Wang Puppet Government in Nanjing.
As an undercover agent, Jin Shenshui already has a deep enough story to dig into. But "The Point of the Knife" is obviously not satisfied with this. It continues to move forward. In the process of carrying out the mission, Jin Shenshui gradually discovered that the mission assigned to him by the military commander was more to kill the Chinese, which was different from his original intention to kill the Japanese. Human ideas are in conflict. Moreover, he also found that the military commander was too corrupt and unable to shoulder the fate of saving New China. As a result, Jin Shenshui began to abandon the military command again and began to serve the New Fourth Army. In the end, he successfully joined the Communist Party of China and became a builder of New China.
This series of changes in Jin Shenshui's character makes the character image change greatly. It is completely different. The character is quite full. It is said to be an excellent movie image. Is Zhang Yi suitable to play the role? Not suitable. Because Zhang Yi is a successful middle-aged man as an actor, he would not be able to handle a character that has changed so much. He is obviously too old. This role should be played by a younger generation of actors, such as Zhu Yilong, Yi Yang Qianxi, Peng Yuchang, etc. Zhang Yi is too good to show such deep character changes. In fact, he really didn't show it in the film.
If the protagonist is not good, this movie is basically half broken.
As for the choice of Lang Yueting as the heroine, it is said that her performance in the film is still acceptable and she has completed her acting task. But even if she completed the task, how good it was and achieved an unforgettable impression, both physical and spiritual, she failed to achieve it. In this case, Lang Yueting's disadvantage of not being famous enough will be highlighted.
If she exceeds the task, performs well, and turns this work into a milestone in her career, she will undoubtedly gain points for herself. But she couldn't do it. In this case, if it were replaced by an actress with box office appeal, the effect would probably be better, such as Zhou Dongyu or Liu Yifei.
As for the performances of other actors in the film, including Huang Zhizhong, Sha Yi, Cheng Taishen, Gao Jie, Jin Shijia, Li Chun and others, their performances are pretty good, but they are also not particularly good, unlike in "The Wind" , every character is worth pondering, which is not the case in "The Edge of the Knife". All the characters have their good guys and bad guys written on their faces. The facial makeup is serious and the characters lack enough to watch.
It would be terrible to have a story like this where almost all the characters are not very tenable.
So, is the story of "Point of Knife" any good?
Unfortunately, even with the support of the Mai family, it will not work. Because the original work "The Point of the Knife" itself is not a good work, it is not outstanding among all the works of the Mai family. The novel is divided into two parts: the positive side and the negative side. However, the Douban scores of the two parts are very even, with only a measly 6.3 points.
As a winner of the Mao Dun Literature Award, the work can only be rated 6.3 points, which is really embarrassing. Quite embarrassing.
The novel is second-rate, but the movie can still be adapted into a masterpiece. There are many examples of this, such as "The Matrix", "Farewell My Concubine", "Let the Bullets Fly", "The Hunger Games", etc. This requires the director to make drastic adaptations of the original work. However, it is obvious that Gao Qun's book is too bad, and the story presented in "The Edge of the Knife" is too eager to put more of the novel's story line on the screen.
As mentioned above, it is too unfocused and too complicated. It wants to say everything and cannot be fully contained in one movie.
The story that begins is the assassination of cryptography expert Bai Dayi. Then began the assassination operation in the security department of the Japanese and puppet regime, eradicating these traitors one by one. Then he assassinated Japanese military officers, and then he assassinated New Fourth Army cadres. Doing it over and over again is confusing, the characters are changing like a revolving lantern, and before you remember this, that one comes, and then it changes again. Without much foreshadowing, it is really too time-consuming. It exceeds the capacity of a movie and the memory limit of the audience. After all, it is not a popular IP like "Three Kingdoms" or "Water Margin". Everyone knows any character.
If the characters and stories are not good, what else can be done?
The answer is really gone. Who can afford to sit in a movie theater and spend two hours watching a quickly edited TV series? nobody.
The mediocrity of the entire film even makes people wonder whether "The Wind" was directed by Gao Qunshu? He is only one of the co-directors. Does the other director Chen Guofu play a greater role? Otherwise, after "The Sound of the Wind", Gao Qunshu would never have directed any masterpiece comparable to "The Sound of the Wind". What happened to him?
"The Point of the Knife" is quite disappointing, so don't watch it.
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