people say that Hong Kong movies have declined, but what people didn’t expect is that Hong Kong movies now are not only in decline, but have even entered the darkest moment.
Throughout 2023, the Chinese mainland market has successively introduced no less than a dozen Hong Kong films starring Hong Kong superstars and movie stars, but among them, " Golden Finger ", which has the best box office performance, has a cumulative total box office of less than 600 million yuan. Rating It has just exceeded 6.0 points. You know, in order to get more attention and expectations from the audience, this Hong Kong film "Goldfinger" can be said to have come up with a "king-pop lineup", with Andy Lau and Tony Leung co-starring the two best actors, in addition to Many well-known Hong Kong stars such as Charlene Choi , Simon Yam, Fong Zhongxin and Jiang Haowen have joined. However, the final total box office of this film was less than 600 million, and the ratings were not very high. Hong Kong films seem to be getting further and further away from us.
By 2024, I thought that the new year would bring a new atmosphere, and I thought that Hong Kong movies could use the happy atmosphere of the New Year to cheer up. But what is surprising is that the first film directly failed.
This year, the first Hong Kong movie introduced to the mainland market was "Three Major Heists" co-starring Aaron Kwok, Lam Jiadong and Yan Xianqi . At the beginning, this film attracted a lot of people's attention and expectations through various publicity.
But after the film was officially released, the audience found that its quality was not as good as they imagined, let alone as beautiful as they imagined. Therefore, its final box office performance was not very satisfactory, only 237 million yuan, and its score was not very high, and it just passed the mark.
Although the first movie was already a failure, no matter what, the final box office of " Temporary Heist " still exceeded 200 million, and the rating also reached the passing line.
The next Hong Kong film can be said to have completely led Hong Kong cinema into its darkest moment.
During the Spring Festival on February 16 this year, the purely Hong Kong film " Breaks " co-starring Ng Chun-yu and Simon Yam, two powerful Hong Kong movie stars, began to be broadcast on online video platforms.
On the first day it was launched, although "Breaking War" had already topped the popularity list, it only had more than 400,000 moviegoers, and its box office was less than 1.7 million.
Now a week has passed, and the cumulative box office of this film is only 6.37 million.
Compared with the low box office, the worst performance of the Hong Kong film "Breaking War" is the reputation of the audience. According to Douban, only more than 2,400 viewers have given the film a score of 3.2. This means that in the eyes of most people, "Breaking War" is just a bad movie.
After watching it, many viewers said that "Broken War" was like playing house, with a poor plot, poor acting by all the actors, and ridiculous lines and dialogues. In this way, most people believe that the darkest moment of Hong Kong movies has come, and the two Hong Kong movie kings, Simon Yam and Francis Ng, have completely ruined Hong Kong movies.
