Text | An Qing
Editor | 9527 Miao Gujun
It’s time for the May Day movie theaters to show off their talents. Compared with the excitement in previous years, this year’s May Day movie is actually a little bleak.
According to box office data, the movie " and " occupies the top spot, with a box office score of more than 200 million, followed by the comedy " and Thelma and Louise " with a box office of 150 million. The momentum and potential cannot be underestimated.
But sometimes the box office cannot represent the quality of the movie. "Peacekeeping Riot Squad", the most blockbuster film on May Day, won the first place in the daily box office. " Kowloon Walled City " with the same luxurious lineup and wonderful configuration was stuck in the box office. ranked fourth.
Comparing the reputation performance of the two movies, I can only say that "without comparison, there is no harm."
"Kowloon Walled City" gathers big names, and the Hong Kong comic returns, which is very eye-catching
The movie "Kowloon Walled City" is adapted from the comic. The original comic itself has a certain IP influence, and the movie has gathered many powerful actors.
started the project in 2018 and started filming in 2021. "Kowloon Walled City" invested a lot of effort in order to restore the degree of accuracy. The film production cost exceeded 300 million, and as we all know, the gold content of 300 million in Hong Kong films is really high.
The movie brings together powerful Hong Kong stars such as Louis Koo, Simon Yam, Raymond Lam, Aaron Kwok, etc. Even Sammo Hung, who is over 70 years old, strongly supports the movie, making Hong Kong fans full of expectations for this movie.
From the plot point of view, "Kowloon Walled City" not only restored the plot highlights of the original comic, inherited the fierce and intense genes of the original comic, but also realized the second part of the original comic, making the plot highlights more realistic and down-to-earth. The character relationships are more immersive.
From the perspective of literary drama, "Kowloon Walled City" has some shortcomings, but these shortcomings are all made up for by the intense fighting scenes. All the characters in the play are ruthless, handsome and capable of fighting. The gangster aspect in the historical background really has the charm of the peak period of Hong Kong movies.
Under such a fighting scene, a group of big guys also performed their characters to a high level. At least through the movie, the audience can see the crazy villain with complete humanity.
Click on the Douban comment section of "Kowloon Walled City" and you will find that this movie is rated 7.5 points. Netizens' evaluations are very fair, and most of them are positive.
In a period when Hong Kong films are gradually declining, I would like to call it the best quality Hong Kong film in the past ten years. The only pity is that the traditional plot content of Hong Kong films is indeed outdated. This is also the only flaw of "Kowloon Walled City".
Of course, compared to the "Peacekeeping Riot Squad" next door, "Kowloon Walled City" is absolutely conscience.
The plot is rough, the characters are thin, and the story has no interesting points.
"Kowloon Walled City" took six years to meet the audience. Every minute and second of the film allows the audience to see the sincerity of the production.
However, "Peacekeeping Riot Squad" was completed in 21 years and launched in 24 years. However, the effect presented in three years is a patchwork of bad movies. Clicking on the Douban comment section of the movie, the audience complained mercilessly.
"The director's skills are too poor, the story is lame, and the characters are stereotyped", "I laughed to death, I watched the Internet University in the cinema", "No, are they going to keep peace or are they just trying to be cool?"
The movie "Peacekeeping Riot Squad" has become a bloody storm as soon as it was released because of the top Wang Yibo . Some people gave one-star negative reviews with resentment and prejudice, while others used filters to blindly give five-star reviews.
But I say objectively, "Peacekeepers" is a bad movie. It has nothing to do with the casting of the actors. It just brought the Hong Kong stars from "Kowloon Walled City" into this movie. "Peacekeepers" is also a bad movie.
The movie focuses on the Chinese peacekeeping police and tells the story of them completing peacekeeping missions abroad. In the first half of the
movie, the peacekeeping police were violently beaten by the incited refugees. After being beaten, they repaid the police with kindness, repairing the houses and distributing supplies.
The second half of the movie is about the peacekeeping police performing their mission to safely escort witnesses to the military court.The plot of the
story is very simple, and the rhythm of the plot is straightforward. The movie has a vague background because the protagonist is inconvenient to intervene in local events.
The villain is a facial expression. It is not known what the purpose of the villain behind the villain is or what he did specifically. At the end of the movie, there is even a scene where the villain is moved to tears by the Chinese peacekeeping police, puts down his butcher knife, and becomes a Buddha three-dimensionally. Drama.
As for the plot process, the villain is outwitted and the protagonist has an aura. In order to make the action scenes exciting, the plot is forced to advance. Except for the realism of the explosion scenes, the logic before and after is quite confusing. In the
movie clips, there is a section where Ding Hui (played by Zhong Chuxi) sacrifices to save the witness's child. Heroic sacrifice is of course an important means to enhance the hero's aura, but do we mean that the sacrifice must be so stupid? The scene where the peacekeeping team is shot one after another for a child is comparable to Calabash Boy saving grandpa.
There is obviously a safe hiding place, but the child must be returned to his mother, and he must be exposed to the eyes of the enemy. Why is the mother an old woman with two guns? Her mother had to be protected by a group of peacekeeping police. This period of sacrifice was really inexplicable.
And the connection of the plot is outrageous. The male protagonist played by Wang Yibo fell from such a high tower. You said the water below was shallow. He didn’t fall to death. You said the water below was deep. When the camera turned to him He was captured by the villain and used as a hostage.
Let’s just say that it’s not that quick to fish a body out of a creek.
Immediately afterwards, the captain created by Huang Jingyu was to rescue the hostages. He went deep into the tiger's den and encountered two minions in total. After easily solving them, he rescued Wang Yibo. The two were surrounded as soon as they went out.
may I ask? Where did all these villains just go? Waiting for the boss to die to take over? Huang Jingyu was so big that he was killed with his head close to his face. Didn't he see it?
Let me tell you, don’t engage in illegal armed forces for being such an amateur. The entire villain formation is either stupid or stupid. What’s left is a Virgin’s heart. Even a sniper mission can be discovered by conscience and suddenly burst into tears. Watch this in the cinema "Peacekeeping Riot Squad" shouldn't make people cry?
In contrast, Huang Jingyu and Wang Yibo's acting skills are indeed immature, but they are handsome and their action scenes are also very neat. Compared with the actors' acting skills, the biggest problem with this movie is that the director and screenwriter drag the actors down.
The most humorous thing is that such a movie is still firmly at the top of the box office list, but "Kowloon Walled City", which has a better reputation, has a dismal schedule.
Of course, the movie has just been released, and word-of-mouth and data are still fermenting. Judging from the current reputation, "Kowloon Walled City" still has room for box office growth, but the fermentation of public opinion about "Peacekeeping Riot Squad" will only discourage more Audiences who want to go to the theater.
To sum up, this year’s May Day event is really disappointing.
Finally, what are your thoughts on the two movies "Kowloon Walled City" and "Peacekeepers"? Join the discussion in the comments section.
