It’s another May Day holiday. In addition to the carnival of student parties, movie theaters are also in crazy mode.
There are still two days left before the holiday, and the box office of theaters has begun to gradually increase.
There is one movie among them. Judging from today's screening results, is expected to be booked in advance to win the May 1st Film Festival.
The movies currently scheduled for May Day, " Thelma and Louise ", "Peacekeeping Riot Squad", " Kowloon Walled City: The Siege "... are all gearing up, and all kinds of propaganda are flying all over the place, hoping to catch this Golden holiday.
But judging from the screening effect, " Kowloon Walled City " has already surpassed the rest.
As of this writing, the film’s box office has exceeded 15 million.
Judging from this development trend, it is estimated that it will reach 50 million after it is officially released on May Day.
In fact, before the screening was broadcast, "Kowloon Walled City" did not give the audience high expectations. The reason is also very simple. The actors in are famous, but they have lost their appeal.
The picture below shows the pre-sale box office before the screening. "Kowloon Walled City" was severely suppressed, with only 228,000 and .
and even an animation left it far behind. After seeing this result, it is indeed unacceptable. You must know that this movie has just been shortlisted for the Cannes Film Festival.
Although it was only a finalist, the producers shook their heads after seeing such expressiveness. Fortunately, the screenings turned the tide, and the box office was also growing crazily. Such a counterattack left some netizens confused.
In fact, after watching it, you can understand why there is such a big difference between screening and pre-sale.
First of all, the movies that can be viewed must be able to withstand the beating.
If it is a bad movie, it is asking for trouble. If it is a good movie, there is no doubt that it can create miracles.
Judging from the current box office of "Kowloon Walled City", they are indeed creating miracles.
Although there is no score on Douban yet, there are already many comments from viewers. One netizen commented like this:
"This is the most powerful action movie in Hong Kong in recent years..."
No matter how gorgeous the language is, Even with such a crude evaluation, Hong Kong films have indeed exhausted their talents in recent years.
does not have a good script, nor does it have new actors. It relies on old actors in their 50s and 60s to support it, so its box office performance in the mainland is not very good.
can also explain clearly why the attention was so low before the screening.
After all, after watching movies for so many years, these old faces have long been tired of seeing them. No matter how good their acting skills are, they can't offset the fact that they are getting older. But this time these "old people" are going to return to their peak.
Let's first understand the background of the story. This happened in Hong Kong in the 1980s, and the "anarchist" Kowloon Walled City became a gathering place for many gangsters.
This name has appeared many times in Hong Kong movies. As long as there is Kowloon Walled City, there will definitely be a bloody story.
The male protagonist Chen Luojun accidentally stumbled into this place of right and wrong. Originally he just wanted to spend some time here in peace, but everything would not go as expected. Chen Luojun needed to protect himself and needed to change, so he started A series of struggles.
In fact, the role played by Raymond Lam is just a link between the previous and the following in the film, mainly due to the two big bosses played by Louis Koo and Sammo Hung.
I have to say that although Sammo Hung is old, he can still play such a role easily.
can even be said to be acting in his true colors, and just sitting there can give people a deterrent effect.
As for the too much content, it is inconvenient to continue to disclose it to avoid spoilers. If you want to know more detailed content, you should go to the cinema yourself.
actually wants to use one sentence to describe this movie, that is "the alternation of old and new". There is such a scene in the
drama, which seems to imply that it is time for some new people to appear in Hong Kong's entertainment industry. These old people will not be able to win in another two years.
