The May Day holiday is getting closer and closer, and the movie schedules during the May Day holiday are becoming more and more anticipated.
originally thought that during the May Day period in 2024, the most anticipated works would be Yang Mi 's "hot pot works" or Wang Yibo 's "foreign version of Wolf Warriors" and "Peacekeeping and Anti-Explosion Team".
As a result, Louis Koo's "The Siege of Kowloon Walled City" immediately took the third place in the daily box office after it started screening.
It is not difficult to see from big data that the only ones that stabilized " Kowloon Walled City " are the American blockbusters Godzilla and Hayao Miyazaki's new works, and the rest of the works were suppressed by "Kowloon Walled City".
Such achievements are already very commendable, not to mention: "Kowloon Walled City" is still a "spot release" and is only released in some areas, so the film scheduling rate is very low.
are already very good among Hong Kong films.
After 23 years of "all-out Hong Kong films hitting the streets", Louis Koo, the leader of the Hong Kong Film Association, finally invited Sammo Hung, a big shot, and joined forces with powerful actors such as Simon Yam and Raymond Lam. A new "Kowloon Walled City" was created.
From the plot point of view, Louis Koo's version of "Kowloon Walled City" is simply perfect. It is no exaggeration to describe it as the most exciting Hong Kong gangster film in the past decade.
"The Siege of Kowloon Walled City" revolves around the life experience of Chen Luojun (played by Raymond Lam). Chen Luojun was trapped in Hong Kong and fled all the way to the "Three No Matters Zone" Kowloon Walled City.
With the arrival of Chen Luojun, an "outsider", the originally unquiet Kowloon Walled City set off a bloody storm. The "grievances" between Tornado played by Louis Koo, the big boss played by Sammo Hung, and Di Qiu played by Ren Qixian became more and more difficult after Chen Luojun's arrival. After that, they were completely torn apart and began to attack each other.
"Kowloon Walled City" revolves around the grievances between the three "walled city bosses". The fighting mainly involves swords, guns and sticks. They are all top actors with kung fu or acting skills. This makes this "Kowloon Walled City" The fighting scenes have become the best attraction.
punches to the flesh, and the aesthetics of violence are interpreted to the extreme. Even " Fury·Serious Case ", which Nicholas Tse has already been hailed as a god, cannot be compared with this drama.
If the theme of Louis Koo's "Kowloon Walled City" was not "gangsters", which runs counter to the mainstream values in the mainland, then the box office of "Kowloon Walled City" might have hit 3 billion.
It is worth mentioning that the biggest attraction of "The Siege of Kowloon Walled City" is not the fighting scenes of veteran actors such as Louis Koo and Sammo Hung, but the "literary drama" part of the film.
The core of "Kowloon Walled City: The Siege" is not the "Kowloon Walled City", but the "siege of the city": people in the city don't want to go out, and people outside the city don't want to come in.
In the 1980s, the Kowloon Walled City was in chaos. It was still a no-nonsense zone. There were opportunities to make a fortune here, but there were also corpses everywhere. People outside the Walled City looked at the Kowloon Walled City as if no one was willing to go there. It's a place where people are crazy.
However, this "lunatic gathering place" never lacks people. Chen Luojun's perspective also shows the "life in the walled city": Although it is very dangerous, with treacherous clouds and monsters fighting with each other everywhere, the people here , it’s not like that little person who can’t survive outside, but he has no choice but to go to the walled city to seek a chance to survive?
In such an environment, in addition to dangers, there must also be a certain amount of "community and tenderness among small people" in the walled city.
is just like Johnnie To's " gunfire " trilogy. The protagonist team are all "bad guys" in the secular sense, but for their brothers, they are the best people in the world.
"The Siege of Kowloon Walled City" is probably about this kind of friendship.
Therefore, people who have watched this drama have said: This drama can be rated 4 points. The reason why the one point is left is not because the drama is not good enough, but because the director should not be Cheng Baorui, but Johnnie To.
If Johnnie To presents "The Siege of Kowloon Walled City", maybe the "love and friendship" described in this film will be taken to a higher level, even if Cheng Baorui is already a "top famous director".
But when it comes to filming the friendship between men, you still have to look to Johnnie To!
By the way, "The Siege of Kowloon Walled City" is a work with no female protagonist in the whole process, only the grievances and hatreds of men. It is so worth looking forward to.
