Miss Understanding from Top Cinema (Original by topcinema, reproduction is strictly prohibited)
Everyone said that Hong Kong movies are not good, but I didn’t expect them to be so bad.
Several Hong Kong films starring Chow Yun-fat, Louis Koo, Nick Cheung and others were released last year, and their reputation and box office collapsed one after another. By the time of the New Year's Day release, the two films " Golden Finger " and " Stealth " had Tony Leung and Andy Lau taking action. In the end, it had a mediocre reputation. From ratings to box office, it couldn't compete with Dapeng comedies.
The Spring Festival is here, and another Hong Kong movie is released before the Lantern Festival.
" breaks the battle ".
is directed by Peng Fa, who won the Best Editing title that year for " Infernal Affairs ". The starring roles are two movie kings Ng Chun-yu and Simon Yam, as well as prime supporting roles in Hong Kong films such as Lin Suet, Liu Qizhi (filmed before his death) and Luo Yingjun. , the subject matter is also the police and criminal genre that Hong Kong movies are best at.
However, who would have thought that this movie would become the worst Hong Kong movie of the year ahead of schedule!
Netizens criticized it as a "bad movie". The Douban score dropped from an extremely low 3.3 points to an even lower 3.2 points. It was also lamented as "the darkest moment of Hong Kong movies".
What’s even more embarrassing is that "Breaking War" has been released on February 16 for 9 days (as of February 24), and the box office has only been 81,000!
What is this concept?
Not to mention the starring role, the current poor box office is not enough to even pay a fraction of the main supporting role's salary.
was not only released quietly, but even the splash was silent, as if it had never been released, not even a splash was made.
Are Hong Kong movies really soft? Starring two movie kings, it was released for 9 days and the box office was only 81,000, which is simply unimaginable!
Some netizens commented with distress:
It is heartbreaking that Hong Kong movies have fallen to this level! The acting skills of all the actors are off-kilter, the plot is lame, and the dialogue is laughable.
Some people even asked: What happened to Hong Kong movies?
If the Hong Kong movies mentioned above are still good at telling stories, this "Breaking War" is like a child playing house in terms of story. The movie synopsis of
is: a showdown between a person who commits crimes in the name of "savior" and the Hong Kong police. The work pays more attention to the confrontation between the weak and the weak, and the final self-atonement of people in a "sick" society.
may seem unfathomable, but in fact it is an old-fashioned showdown between cops and robbers. No wonder some viewers said after watching it: "Is this a script left over from the last century? I can't believe that in 2024, such a script can still be filmed." Into a movie."
In addition, this is a "hard-to-produce old product", which makes people even more worried about the quality.
There is an actor in "Breaking War" who is a veteran Hong Kong film actor, Liao Qizhi. He died of illness in 2021.
Everyone discovered that this movie was actually shot in 2019 and is one of Liao Qizhi's posthumous works. However, the movie will not be released in 2024 until 3 years after his death.
However, despite being kept under wraps for several years and given ample time to edit and revise, the result of "Break War" being released now is that the audience is denouncing it as a bad movie.
It is unimaginable that Ng Chun-yu, Simon Yam, Lam Suet, and Liu Qizhi, all recognized as powerful actors in Hong Kong movies, came together in a Hong Kong police movie, and ended up being scolded along with the movie.
Even the male protagonists Ng Chun-yu and Simon Yam seemed to regard this movie as if it were air.
Francis Ng and Simon Yam did not post any promotional content about this movie on their social accounts at all.
During the Spring Festival, Simon Yam posted a photo of himself and his wife, while Ng Chun-yu’s latest content was about another variety show.
I don’t know whether it’s because the fees were not paid, or because they have nothing to say about the movie “Broken War” starring themselves?
Although "Broken War" did not become a deserter and was withdrawn like " Mr. Red Carpet " starring Andy Lau and several other movies, such poor theater performance made it choose to be broadcast online at the same time. As a result,
's results were much better than those in the cinema within a few days of being online. html earned a cumulative share of 1.696 million in 18 days, which was much more than the 81,000 in the cinema.
But it was obviously a theatrical movie with a "high-profile starring role" that went to theaters. It was switched to the Internet just one day after it was released, and was directly downgraded to a "big online movie." actually failed miserably.
The movie he starred in has become a major Internet star. It is no wonder that Wu Zhenyu and Simon Yam have chosen to remain silent on their social accounts. This is not a matter of publicity, this is already a matter of shame.
Their silence is also like the recent decline in the performance of Hong Kong films. Compared with the 3 billion box office movies of Jia Ling , Han Han and other mainland filmmakers during the Spring Festival, this silence seems so deafening.
Hong Kong movies, what happened?
Is it a script problem, an actor problem, or something else?
This is not something that anyone in the Hong Kong film industry can answer, but everyone cannot escape responsibility.
Suddenly I miss Johnnie To who has not directed a new film in 4 years.
The good news is that he previously revealed that his new film will be launched as early as before the Spring Festival.
wait.
