Korean movies cannot lose Ma Dong-seok, just like the West cannot lose Jerusalem.
In recent years, the "Korean film crisis" has become a hot topic among movie fans. Korean films seem to be flourishing around the world, but they have encountered an unsustainable and tragic situation in South Korea.
No one invests, no one acts, no one buys tickets.
A large number of local Korean actors have left. In 2023, there will only be 6 Korean movies without losses, and the rest will be wiped out without exception.
There is only one man who can save the market - Ma Dongxi
The " Crime City " series has been hailed as a box office star in South Korea since the first part in 2017. The director of
's first film set a flag to challenge 5 million moviegoers, but unexpectedly it ended up reaching 6.88 million. The second part of
directly exceeded 10 million viewers, becoming the first movie in the series to exceed 10 million viewers. The third part of
broke the record by exceeding 10 million in 32 days of release, dominating the screen for 25 consecutive days, with a global box office of US$83.41 million. It is also the only Korean local film to achieve profitability in the first half of 2023.
At a time when the Korean film market was dying, Ma Dong-seok created a miracle, and at the same time as "Crime City 3" was in theaters, the fourth part was announced to be shot at full speed.
Saving the world is the mission assigned by Han Ying to "Crime City".
Recently, it has finally been launched on streaming media -
"Crime City 4"
It turns out that people around the world are under great pressure and like to watch One Punch Man beat up villains.
"Crime City 4" was released in South Korea on April 24 this year, less than 11 months apart from its predecessor.
However, it was still an unprecedented success after its release. It reached 2.82 million people in the first week of release, easily exceeded 10 million in 20 days, and the profit reached 104.6 billion won (547 million yuan).
Including "Crime City 4", the total number of viewers of this series has exceeded 40 million.
You must know that the total population of South Korea is only 50 million! In other words, one in every five Koreans has watched the series, and has watched several of it.
And there is no other magic weapon to win in "Crime City" -
It's cool!
(The actor's name will be used instead of the protagonist below)
Ma Dongxi vs Telecom Fraud
From the beginning of the scene, Ma Dongxi couldn't help but beat up the whole universe.
Like the first three films in the series, the movie starts from daily life. Ma Dongxi’s team is performing a mission, and the drug dealer is blasted by his teammates.
A drug dealer was about to run away on a motorcycle, but he couldn't move no matter how hard he turned the accelerator.
turned around and saw Ma Dongxi pulling the motorcycle behind him with one hand.
Then the team arrived at the drug trafficking den, and 123 rushed into the room, only to find that there was an iron door in the middle of the room.
Who is Ma Dongxi?
directly pulled the iron door with his bare hands, and his chest muscles came down immediately.
Then he waited in the drug dealer's den. Each salesperson came up and punched him to sleep, and then the next one continued to enter.
It’s good to be young, and you can fall asleep standing up.
During the search for drug dealers, Ma Dongxi discovered that drug dealers were selling drugs online using an app.
The developer's name is "Zhao Chengzai". He was brutally killed in the Philippines a few days ago. The deceased was penetrated in many places with sharp weapons. It was obviously the work of a very vicious person.
The death of Zhao Chengzai brought the case to a deadlock, and the appearance of his mother made Ma Dongxi extremely distressed.
With tears in her eyes, she made a promise with Ma Dongxi to bring the murderer to justice and give her son justice.
But within a few days, the mother could not bear the pain of losing her son, and passed away leaving a suicide note.
Ma Dongxi gritted his teeth and must avenge his mother!
Ma Dongxi contacted his colleagues in the Information Crime Division, searched Zhao Sungjae’s cloud account in the Philippines, and found that he was an online gambling fraud designer before his death.
On the other side, the telecom fraud leader "Baek Chang-ki" far away in the Philippines is annexing his peers.
Bai Changji is a retired mercenary with extraordinary fighting ability. As soon as Cadillac entered the scene, he hit the door with an excavator, and then turned over with one hand and the silver light flashed.
One man took down an entire online gambling den with just one knife.
"Representative Zhang, this is done."
"How many users do they have?"
"300,000."
"If you increase the number to 400,000, I will increase your shares by 10%."
"Do what you say. To. "
Good guy, another ruthless person.
"Representative Zhang" is the leader of telecommunications fraud in South Korea. He has established an entire criminal paradise, and Baek Changki is his top thug in the Philippines, looking for cheap labor and operating casinos for him.
The first part fights gangsters, the second part fights human traffickers, and the third part fights gangsters.
In the fourth part, Ma Dongxi also followed the pace of the times and became a telecommunications fraudster.
Ma Dong-seok is no longer "amazing" this time
Because the fourth part was very rushed from project establishment to production, and the "work" flavor in the plot is also very obvious.
Although the main villain is in the Philippines, he soon came to South Korea due to uneven distribution of the spoils, and it turned into a domestic gang fight.
Baichang Gene's dividend issue brought his brothers to South Korea to confront Representative Zhang. Representative Zhang knew the truth of raising tigers to cause danger, and joined forces with "President Quan" to encircle and suppress Baichangji.
Unexpectedly, Bai Changji's fighting ability is amazing. Two people can defeat a group of gangsters.
On the other side, Ma Dongxi finally found out the power behind the telecommunications fraud group and had a decisive battle with Baek Changki.
From a plot perspective, compared to the first three films, "Crime City 4" has been subtracted to a great extent, and even has a perfunctory feeling of feeding "crime + telecommunications fraud" to the AI.
The story is simple and direct, and you can guess the whole story without even reading the lines.
But the difference this time is -
One Punch Man Ma Dongxi is no longer "god".
Telecom fraud is different from real crime and requires familiarity with network knowledge. However, Ma Dongxi, who only knows how to talk with his fists, knows nothing about it and can only worry about the computer screen.
finally had no choice but to ask the newcomers from the information department to finally open up the situation.
However, throughout the entire investigation process, Ma Dongxi was passive throughout.
He could only wait for the results, and finally relied on his colleagues in the information department to direct him.
In the middle of the movie, the criminal's whereabouts were unclear. The villain openly walked into the police station and assassinated the suspect. After a face-to-face contact, he played with the suspect and seriously injured a passerby....
Ma Dongxi felt deeply powerless. I tried my best but had nowhere to show it.
Finally, the director arranged a scene in which Ma Dongxi was so angry that he encountered a group of gangsters on the road and went on a killing spree, pumping his fists and dancing wildly to vent his anger until his hands were covered in blood...
This should be the most "tragic" scene in the series.
does not rely on violence or cruel spectacle. It just moves the crime scene to the Internet, leaving Ma Dongxi powerless and can only vent his anger by playing gangsters.
While writing the script, Korean movies were also experiencing a market crisis.
Is this the reality of Korean movies reflected in Toma Dong-seok's words -
looks fierce, but in fact it is just the end of its power and will be abandoned by the times at any time.
Fortunately, the screenwriter still used familiar Korean humor to negate this feeling of powerlessness.
There are many cold humorous designs in the movie.
Ma Dongxi has no funds to set up an investigation team. As soon as the camera turns to the scene of local gang transactions, he appears like a kindergarten parent.
's left mouth and right fist frightened the two gangsters into shouting "Dad" and gave up their funds.
then did not forget to extract information to solve the case, and at this time the key figure in the series second only to Ma Dongxi appeared -
's ultimate tool man "Zhang Yishuai".In the first three movies of
, as long as Ma Dongxi investigates any case, Zhang Yishuai is always working on similar cases and can provide key information.
In this one, Ma Dongxi was investigating telecom fraud. By coincidence, Zhang Yishuai had just returned from the Philippines. He had been doing telecom fraud for three days before he was raped by Baek Changki.
The plot here follows the easter egg of the third part.
Under the threat of Ma Dongxi's "Dan Lai", Zhang Yishuai turned to the police and succeeded in clearing his name. He actually became a "dark night detective" and helped Ma Dongxi set up the Philippines Telecom branch for fishing law enforcement. Finally, he found the whereabouts of Bai Changji...
At the end of the movie, Baek Chang-ki instigated President Kwon's rebellion, and the two teamed up to kill Representative Zhang.
Then President Kwon was captured, and Ma Dongxi also had a final decisive battle with Baek Changki on the plane.
Similar to the previous game, the decisive battle is very short.
Ma Dongxi immediately killed the villain after taking advantage.
But the difference is that this time Ma Dongxi failed. Baek Changki inserted a sharp knife into Ma Dongxi's fist, as if he had completed some kind of sacrilegious ritual.
And Ma Dongxi held this hand tightly, punched Baek Changji in the face, and told him what "hard power" meant.
Looking at the entire film, the fourth film suffered from dimensionality reduction in terms of the completeness of the script.
Compared with the chaos of the four forces in China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia in the first three films, this film only touched upon the Philippines briefly at the beginning and then immediately returned to the mainland, making it the smallest in the series.
In terms of action, there are no remarkable scenes in the whole film. Almost all scenes follow a pattern -
Ma Dongxi enters the scene and the gangster screams.
Ma Dongxi shook his fist and the gangster fell asleep peacefully.
The elite mobs and bar corridor scenes in the previous film have all disappeared. Except for the final boss, the entire film is almost all one-sided killings based on Ma Dongxi’s experience of painting and playing.
Of course, apart from the protagonist, what the audience cares about most is the villain boss.
The smooth villain, the iron-clad Ma Dongxi.
After experiencing three villains, the one who challenges Ma Dongxi this time is his old partner "Kim Mooyeol".
This actor collaborated with Ma Dong-seok in the 2019 " ", playing the role of the beast detective "Jung Tae-seok".
But this time the police became the villains and the teammates became the opponents.
has gimmicks, but to be honest, in terms of aura, Kim Moo Yeol obviously cannot be compared with his "predecessors", he is just an iconic ruthless tool.
Obviously, the villain image of the "Crime City" series is decreasing.
From "Zhang Qiandan" in the first part, "Jiang Haixiang" in the second part, to 1+1<1>
And judging from the teammates who turned into rivals 5 years ago, the ability to create villains is declining sharply, and there are not many actors who can play, so old partners are used to make up the numbers.
is written at the end
Indeed, the box office of the "Crime City" series is still rising, and it is even said that the next one will create miracles.
is simple and clean, has a popular plot, and has a protagonist with maximum strength. It brings the "coolness" of commercial films to the extreme.
But people are always bored sometimes, and they will get tired of it if they drink too much Coke.
How long can Korean movies be sustained by Ma Dong-seok?
is like the protagonist who is incompetent in the face of the Internet. They probably know that this last dinner is already on the way.
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