Are there any good suspense crime films in Chinese movies?
are rare, and most of them are Hong Kong films.
For example, Liu Qingyun's " Detective ".
A 90-minute movie, the beginning is unremarkable, and the one-minute gun-swapping scene at the end is the finishing touch to the film. Liu QingyunAn Zhijie's acting skills are the highlight;
such as " National Witness".
Although it is a mainland crime film, the film incorporates the style of Hong Kong police and gangster films. Aaron Kwok Sun Honglei performed wonderfully, but it is a pity that the ending is bad.
In the past two years, Hong Kong films "Corridor of Justice" and " Under the Day " have become huge hits.
are all based on local reality in Hong Kong, which makes people sweat coldly, but the most exciting thing is still not the story itself, but the performance of actors such as Lin Baoyi.
As for the box office hit "The Disappearance of Her ", aside from Chen Sicheng's exquisite topic setting, the most exciting thing is probably Zhu Yilong Wen Yongshan's performance.
In short, in these domestically produced suspense crime films, suspense is just an embellishment, not necessarily the main course.
For a suspenseful crime film to be a hit, one of the key factors is the actors.
But in today's Chinese-language movies, how many actors can still support a crime suspense film with their own charm?
Let me name you, Zhang Jiahui.
A very special existence in Chinese-language movies.
Comedy, has acted in "The Gambler 1999", " King of Kings 2000", "The Gambler vs. Las Vegas", Wang Jing once wanted to make him the next Stephen Chow.
Jianghu movies, I have acted in Johnnie To's "Underworld", "The Killer Plane", it was so cruel to the bone, the scene of chewing a porcelain bowl still hurts me to this day.
action movies, "The Fight", "Witness" and "The Informant" are all masterpieces. Almost all of Lam Chiu-hsien's best Hong Kong action movies are starring him. The best thing about "The Furious", a dark horse at the box office at the end of last year, is also his action scenes.
became a director himself and filmed "The Exorcist of the World". Many viewers are still waiting for the sequel.
didn't wait for the sequel, but during the Qingming Festival, he waited for the new Internet crime suspense film starring him, "Super Detective".
In addition, Zhang Yishang, Tam Yaowen, Zhou Liqi, Tang Wenlong, Hong Tianzhao and other old faces of Hong Kong movies are included.
5 hours, rushing to the second place on the new list on the platform.
When I first saw it, all I thought of was:
Suspense crime + Detective Nick Cheung, or Internet University? No need to think about it, it’s another bad movie! After watching
, I only have one feeling in my heart:
is still the best, don’t underestimate Nick Cheung.
01. Enter the drama: serial revenge, hell’s deceitful judge, hypnotic pursuit of the murderer, reversal and reversal, no peeing spots in the whole process!
What surprised me was that "Super Detective" did not follow the traditional crime suspense route.
It has a bit of suspenseful ingenuity and a bit of the thrill of detective work.
When the story progresses and gets out of control, and the audience looks on in confusion as the detective played by Nick Cheung digs out the culprit, the enjoyment of watching the movie reaches its peak.
In an imaginary city, a crime is taking place.
A tall director of a public relations company suddenly bumped into "evil" on his way home. A woman suddenly bumped into his car. When he got out of the car, he saw nothing.
Just as he took a breath, a wave of black mist hit him again.
Want to escape? The afterimage of a woman he killed kept appearing in front of him, chasing after him.
He fled in a hurry, but was strangled by a rope and died.
The death condition was almost the same as that of the girl he killed.
Who is the murderer? Miraculously, two hours later, the beautiful girl Zhou Mei came to the police station to report the crime, or in other words, told the entire crime story.
According to what she said, the murderer was the conjured judge from hell, and the next target to be executed for heaven was hidden in her paintings.
After telling the story, the girl stopped communicating with the police and only talked to one person: Guo Wenbin, a former senior inspector of the Criminal Investigation Department who suffered from hyperamnesia.
Zhang Jiahui, it’s your turn to appear.
But why did the girl make up a trickster from hell?
Why do you only talk to Guo Wenbin, who once used his special memory ability to solve strange cases for the police, and then lost his mind after his brother was killed, and finally resigned on his own initiative?
The story has just begun, and the suspense is already there.
Next, let’s look at Zhang Jiahui’s story of how to uncover the truth of the case.
Generally speaking, people like to watch crime suspense. The greatest fun is mainly reflected in two aspects -
First, it is solving puzzles.
follows the protagonist and searches for clues in the intricate plot.
The mystery in this film is why the criminal pretends to be the Judge of Hell, and what is his real purpose? What is the connection between the victims who appear one after another?
Soon, the second victim appeared, the rich man who appeared in the girl's painting. The hallucination caused by
game cover made him regard his doctors and bodyguards as evil spirits.
After shooting angrily, he jumped off the building and died.
The death condition was almost the same as that of his girlfriend who was killed by him.
The two victims both died unjustly, both escaped the punishment of the law, and both ended up dying in a similar way to their own victims.
The murderer used the name of Judge Hell, and invited reporters to report it, making the urban legend of Judge Hell popular.
Guo Wenbin, played by Nick Cheung, returned to the crime team to investigate the serial murders, and soon discovered that the suspect Zhou Mei was just the killer's bright card.
's murder had nothing to do with her, but it was true that the two had many battles involving prophecy, hypnosis and other modus operandi.
This feeling is like walking through a maze in the dark, carefully searching for the direction of the exit.
Come again, it’s time to reveal the secret.
It's like finally finding the exit of a maze after hitting a wall many times.
When the truth of the story comes to light, people can feel a kind of pleasure called "that's how it is."
"Supernatural Detective" takes this feeling to the extreme. The biggest attraction of
is the blinding method.
The trickster judge in hell is a deception, and the Internet prophecy is a deception, hypnosis, or a deception.
What is the murderer trying to cover up?
comes with real methods and goals.
In any crime suspense work, the "real modus operandi" is often the focus of the entire story.
In this film, it is hypnosis.
uses hypnosis to create illusions to make bad guys who are not punished by the law commit suicide.
The question is, who is the hypnotist? Who is his ultimate crime target?
It seems that the murderer's crime is to do justice to God.
But in the process of pulling out bamboo shoots, Zhang Jiahui gradually found the real target of the murderer: the person behind the child molestation incident in the children's welfare home.
The person who attacks the child is the real target of the murderer.
But here comes the problem, if the murderer is someone related to the child molestation case, or even the victim of that year.
But why did he kill the first two unrelated people?
Still, there is a second layer of cover-up-
The real culprit behind the real culprit.
What if the real culprit on the surface is targeting the villain of the child molestation incident, and the real culprit behind the scenes is just using him to achieve his own goals?
From the very beginning, the movie has quietly buried a hidden thread.
This hidden thread was not really revealed until the second half of the movie.
Everything, obviously related to hypnosis. But who is the person behind the use of hypnosis to create this network murder case of Hell's Judge?
What is the truth? I don’t want to deprive everyone of the joy of getting the answer.
You only need to know that the whole movie is like a roller coaster -
Every time it gets close to a truth, it will usher in a reversal.
What the film wants is the pleasure of having the audience's IQ infinitely abused under the fast-paced and strong plot.
02. The comedian Nick Cheung is back, the villain Zhang Yishang is eye-catching, and Tam Yaowen is alive again
Of course, the success of this good show cannot be separated from the wonderful performances of the three leading actors.
The first thing people remember is Zhang Yishang’s charm.
Many people still have the impression of her as Police Officer Sasha in "Detective Chinatown". Her sassy and love-obsessed performance in the film is impressive.
But in this movie, her charm is deep in her bones.
This kind of charm is not shown by the graceful body curves, but by acting skills. Behind the charm is the conspiracy, the knot of the past, and the breathlessness.
The most exciting rivalry scene in the film is her confrontation with the police officer played by Nick Cheung, which is mysterious and has a little pride. The image of a lonely beauty suddenly appeared.
It's a pity that the charm of this character did not last until the end, and the character design failed halfway through the performance, but Zhang Yishang's acting charm is still there.
The second most impressive thing is Tan Yaowen's relaxation.
Tam Yaowen is recognized as a good actor. Unfortunately, apart from works such as "Beast Detective" and "Across the World", there are too few works that truly unleash his acting skills.
In this film, he plays the role of a high-ranking police officer who has no intention of investigating the case but only wants to rise to the top. He was originally not flattering, but Tan Yaowen's performance gave him a huge sense of relaxation.
I ate and listened to the case, and the male protagonist played by Zhang Jiahui used friendship + coercion and inducement, mainly inducement.
This kind of relaxation is in perfect contrast with the seriousness of Nick Cheung's character, and it also neutralizes the tense atmosphere of the whole film.
His acting skills are always reliable.
Of course, the biggest acting highlight of this film is Nick Cheung’s madness.
Although Nick Cheung has won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice, his huge popularity with the audience actually comes more from his game memes and Mandarin memes.
He won Best Actor twice for his serious performances, but the audience always wanted to see his comedy performances.
And the whole film is Nick Cheung's acting award.
Nick Cheung plays two roles in this film, while the other plays two brothers.
The second is to act out multiple hallucinations of oneself in the brain, which is a bit like the personality seen by Liu Qingyun's character in "Detective", but in this film these personalities are all comedic.
What I like to watch the most is actually not the reasoning section of this film, but the drama section between Nick Cheung and Nick Cheung.
The entire film lasts for one and a half hours, and for more than ten minutes, it is the main character of the police officer played by Zhang Jiahui, and the scenes with several different personalities in the hallucinations.
But the audience can clearly distinguish different Nick Cheung. The dominant Nick Cheung is unsmiling and has a unique sense of investigation and justice.
The Nick Cheung in the hallucination is like the transformation of Nick Cheung who used to play comedies in Wong Jing's movies.
It is actually very difficult to play a male protagonist who suffers from hyperamnesia and is deeply obsessed with the murder of his younger brother in front of his face, because if he uses too much force, his appearance will be too strong.
However, Nick Cheung's performance was effortless, relying on micro-expressions, eyes, and delicate body movements to convey the character's sense of super memory, as well as the paranoia and restraint in his character.
There was a scene where his younger brother was killed in front of him. He was so stimulated that he wanted to commit suicide by swallowing a gun. When the gun was pointed at himself, his whole body began to twitch. The look of fear and despair made people shudder.
Guo Wenbin, who was reborn from despair, has the transparency of a thousand sails. When faced with hostile colleagues, he just responded with a simple sentence: My pot is too big, I'm afraid you can't carry it.
's sense of pressure feels right.
He is the one who sets the rhythm. Because of his performance, the whole drama is sometimes tense, sometimes funny, sometimes boiling, and sometimes cold.
It can be said that his performance nailed me firmly in front of the screen and persisted until the end.
03. Three Golden Rules: This is how a crime suspense film is made to be enjoyable.
The director of this film, Wong Ming-sheng, was an Academy Award-winning action director in the golden age of Hong Kong films. , he is good at being an action director, but he still needs experience as a director and screenwriter.
"Supernatural Detective" is definitely not what a domestic suspense crime film should be.
In fact, even the title of the film can be felt as a combination of "The Super Sense Detective" and "The Tasteless Detective".
But from the fragments scattered so far, we can already piece together what a good crime suspense film looks like.
is summarized in three keywords.
The first keyword is "fusion".
A brain-burning plot with infinite twists and turns.
Fantasy, suspense, and mental confusion.
I have to say that this movie gives people a taste of classic suspense films and Hong Kong-style thrillers, and even has a few more comedy flavors because of the addition of Nick Cheung.
As a long-established genre, suspense crime films have been produced for many years. Even Hollywood has encountered a bottleneck and cannot think of any new tricks.
If it is too difficult to surpass, fusion may not be the way out for domestic suspense crime films. Multi-element fusion and multi-perspective puzzle stories give the audience the pleasure of solving puzzles.
The second keyword is "image".
This is also what the film did well. Huang Mingsheng did think a lot about the shooting techniques, the color of the pictures, etc. He used Guo Wenbin’s setting of hyperamnesia and adopted unconventional lenses to enhance sensory stimulation.
allows the protagonist to enter the time and space of the crime scene and experience the criminal's crime in real time. The abnormal zoom visually creates a sense of oppression and tension.
When Zhang Jiahui observed the crime scene, he used a sliding camera, paired with mysterious lights and rushing music.
instantly pulls the audience into that horrific scene.
gives the whole story a strange and dangerous atmosphere.
The third keyword is "psychedelic".
A key element of the film is the battle between super memory and hypnosis. Two psychiatrists played by Tang Wenlong and Zhou Liqi appear alternately, using various classic psychological suggestions to increase confusion.
For example, the core of the core, about the identity of the hypnotist and the tricks of hypnosis.
Director Huang Mingsheng constantly lets the starring character Nick Cheung intersperse between fantasy and reality. The whole case is like a game within a game, a dream within a dream. This psychedelic feeling undoubtedly adds to the interest of the entire film.
It’s a pity that the director overdid his skills and used excessive interpolation, which would inevitably make the audience dizzy. If the leading actor was not the best actor Nick Cheung, who could fill in the film with his rich acting experience, but an ordinary capable actor, the audience would probably watch it. More chaos.
But the direction of the film is right. It brings the style of classic suspense films back into the public eye.
brings a hard-core brain-burning and refreshing experience.
Although the film is far from perfect, there are many problems in various aspects such as plot and rhythm. As a suspense film, the story is not very clever. There are many shadows of the film. Basically, you can guess it after watching it for half an hour. pretty close.
From this, we can understand why the film still did not choose to be released in theaters despite Nick Cheung and many powerful actors.
But exploration is not without value.
If a crime suspense film wants to become a mature commercial genre film, the most indispensable thing is constant trial and error.
The most right thing that "Super Detective" does is to turn crime suspense movies into entertainment. It does not set up puzzles to be mysterious, and it does not accuse human nature of bitterness and hatred. It focuses on thrillers and brain-burning, with online art and special effects.
The plot of the film is flawed and the depth is not enough. In the end, the use of hyperamnesia is more form than content. The highlight of the film largely comes from Nick Cheung's outstanding performance.
But it can’t stand up to it, and the pictures are really watchable.
has the combination of movie kings and beauties, urban legends to enhance the atmosphere, tragic theme background, constant reversals, acting skills of veterans of Hong Kong movies, and action and gun battles with hard bridges and hard horses.
Every item may not be top-notch, but together it is a commercial crime suspense film that is full of entertainment.
At least, with Zhang Jiahui here, I watched the end at twice the speed.
This imperfect attempt also allows us to see the prototype of excellent domestic crime suspense films in the future.
Of course, rather than me clarifying it for you here, it would be better for you to find out for yourself.
After all, this is the charm of suspense movies.
Only when you enter the game can you understand what this game is. What's more, this is still a messy game.
's performance as a returning actor is worth the price of admission.
