's May 1st season has ended, but " Kowloon Walled City: The Siege ", which was released for ten days, is still trending steadily and has won the "long tail box office". The box office has currently exceeded 400 million. Industry insiders believe that this represents the impact of the film's reputation on the box office trend of the film. As the most highly praised Hong Kong action film in the past five years, the film's high reputation drove a small counterattack the next day after the film was released. On the last day of the schedule, the film gradually It continues to spread from the Cantonese-speaking area to the southeastern region.
"The Siege of Kowloon Walled City" is directed by Cheng Po-sui, the Best Director at this year's 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards, starring Louis Koo, Raymond Lam, , Liu Junqian, Wu Yunlong, Hu Tong, and Zhang Wenjie, starring Yan Xianqi , Huang Debin, and Sammo Hung. Starring a friend, it tells the story of Chen Luojun (played by Raymond Lam), a young man in trouble who accidentally breaks into the city while escaping. After being rescued by the village talker Tornado (played by Louis Koo), he unexpectedly becomes brothers with Xinyi, Twelve Young Masters, and Fourth Young Master, and faces the evildoers. It's a passionate story about seizing the city and protecting the city to the death with everyone.
"The Siege of Kowloon Walled City" started screening one week before its release, with a Maoyan screening score of 9.5. Subsequently, Maoyan and Douban platforms both scored the highest scores for Hong Kong action films in the past five years. The film is cold and fierce, with hot-blooded fighting and comic-book textures colliding wantonly. Sharp blades, guns, fists and kicks are used to fight a way out. The sharp moves and strong rhythm impact the extreme of the senses and expand the boundaries of action crime movies.
Director Cheng Baorui bluntly said that the action in this film is "more realistic than reality, like watching a Hong Kong comic", which clearly explains the core characteristics of the film's action scenes. Whether it's the smoke caught in the tornado, Chen Luojun being beaten into the iron flower cage, or the evil force Wang Jiu's invulnerable "magic skill", all of them demonstrate the film's comic-like character setting and action design. He said that a group of actors "started from scratch" and practiced "with a blank sheet of paper" to "excellent martial arts". The thrilling and fierce fighting scenes presented in the film today are inseparable from the serious and hard training behind each actor.
In addition to the extreme aesthetics of violence, director Paul Cheng takes root in Hong Kong urban culture, recreates the brilliance of the Hong Kong film era, and releases a shocking gluttonous feast, which contains the determination of a trapped beast still fighting, but also has a different kind of dignity and romance.
Recently, there has been a trend in the film market where films are released in several major schedules. Often, after the schedule, the market falls into the off-season, and the contrast is too large. Films that rely on their continuous reputation have a "long tail effect" and can break through the restrictions of schedules. Being seen by the audience will also help alleviate the gap caused by holiday movie viewing.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Xiao Yang
editor/Cui Wei
