What kind of works on the big screen can make people excited to watch?
is undoubtedly an action movie.
In addition to the exciting plot of an action film, the tough guy actors in the film are also crucial.
They have majestic bodies and strong muscles. They have the skills and courage to compete with ten, making action movies so exciting.
Different places also have their own representative tough guy actors. Hollywood has Dwayne Johnson, China has Wu Jing.
The representative of tough guy actors in the Korean film industry is none other than Ma Dong-seok.
Known as "the only man in Korea" and "Korean Wu Jing", he was a weightlifting coach. His majestic physique and tendons gave him a tough guy temperament.
, " Train to Busan ", "Angry Scalper", " Bad Man " and other movies have also made him a representative of Korean action movie male stars.
, especially the movie " Crime City " starring in 2017, broke the box office record of R-rated movies in the Korean film industry.
After the success of "Crime City", Ma Dongxi continued to participate in 2 sequels, each of which was the Korean box office champion of the year.
This year the series also welcomes its fourth installment, and Ma Dong-seok returns to the big screen with his fists.
With the high popularity of the first three parts, "Crime City 4" can be said to be an explosion from the beginning.
was invited to participate in the special screening section of the 74th Berlin International Film Festival as a Korean series for the first time, writing a new history of Korean genre series. Before the release of
, a total of 164 countries and regions around the world purchased the screening rights, breaking the highest overseas sales record for the series.
The movie’s box office is also as impressive as ever. The pre-sale rate before the official release is as high as 95.5%, breaking the highest pre-sale record for Korean movies.
won the box office championship after its release, setting the highest box office for the Korean film market and series of films in 2024.
exceeded 10 million viewings in just 22 days, becoming the third film in the series to reach 10 million viewings, and continued to be the single-day box office champion for 28 days.
So far, the number of viewers of the film in South Korea has exceeded 11 million.
South Korea has a population of just over 52 million, which means that nearly one-fifth of South Koreans have watched this film.
Below, Qingshi will talk about this Korean movie hit based on the plot.
After fighting gangsters in the first part, thugs in the second part, and drug dealers in the third part, the types of criminals faced in "Crime City 4" have changed again.
focuses on fraud and illegal online gambling this time, so this is also known as the Korean version of " or ".
The story opens with a man being hunted down in the Philippines late at night.
At the critical moment, he met the police. He thought he would be protected by the police, but the villains came and killed all the police and men.
Ma Seok-do (played by Ma Dong-seok) far away in South Korea is investigating a drug trafficking incident.
He led his colleagues to catch all the drug dealers, and also found a drug distribution software on the drug dealer's mobile phone.
After investigation, it was found that the man who developed the software was the man who was killed in the Philippines at the beginning.
After the man’s body was transported back to the country, examination confirmed that he had been stabbed through the heart with a knife and died, and he had obviously been abused for a long time.
After Ma Xidao took over the case, he immediately launched an investigation.
learned through the man’s family that he went to the Philippines for work a few months ago. Officers from the police network team found the work photos that the man uploaded to the cloud.
Based on the picture Ma Xidao, he found the illegal online gambling website behind the victim, Emperor Casino.
Behind the scenes of this website, there are two operators.
One is the IT industry boss Zhang Dongzhe (played by Li Donghui), who sits in South Korea and strategizes.
The other is Baek Chang-ki (played by Kim Moo-yeol), who is a thug with a background as a special forces mercenary, and is the ruthless man who killed the police in seconds at the beginning.
He is responsible for the operation of the website in the Philippines and plays the role of a violent enforcer.
They lured and kidnapped technical personnel from South Korea to operate websites in the Philippines, and violently exploited the technical personnel.
At the same time, in order to monopolize the industry, once there is a newly established website in the Philippines, Bai Changji will use force to clean it up and steal customers.
So in order to lure out the boss behind the scenes, Ma Xidao found his old acquaintance Zhang Yishuai (played by Park Ji-hwan) and worked with the police to build a new website in the Philippines.
On the other side, there are also cracks in the cooperation between the two operators of the website.
Zhang Dongzhe promised to give Baichang more shares in the casino, but he just made a promise without cashing in, so he decided to leave for South Korea to interview him.
Zhang Dongzhe also wants to take this opportunity to get rid of Bai Changqi, so he has already found a candidate to take over the casino.
In this way, all parties gathered in the Philippines and South Korea respectively, and fierce hand-to-hand battles began.
The above is the main plot of "Crime City 4". The plot rhythm is still simple and smooth, and it is not a brain-burning way.
At the same time, the story cuts into the current hot topics and focuses on overseas gambling fraud.
However, unlike "All or Nothing", it goes deep into the industry chain and spreads this fraud industry from the perspective of the victims who were abducted into the gambling gang.
"Crime City 4" is simple and straightforward, focusing on soothing the liver and relieving depression.
From the perspective of investigating the case, the film first shows the viciousness of the bad guy, and then uses Ma Dongxi's fist to beat the bad guy beyond recognition.
As a series of movies, "Crime City 4" also continues the overall tone.
First of all, it is the feeling of punching to the flesh.
As the most popular and highest-grossing action movie in South Korea, the "Crime City" series gives people the biggest feeling of pleasure.
The original intention of the director was very clear from the first film, which was to make a heart-pounding and enjoyable film.
There are almost no guns used in the movie. Both the police and criminals fight with cold weapons or bare hands, taking the aesthetics of fist-to-flesh violence to the extreme.
Especially the beast detective Ma Seok-do played by Ma Dong-seok, he can be called the "Korean version of One Punch Man"!
often knocks his opponents to the ground with a wave of his hand and a casual punch, giving the audience an excellent viewing pleasure.
Ma Dong-seok's "slap" skill in "Crime City 4" is still there, and his combat power is even more evolved.
During the operation to arrest drug dealers, Ma Dongxi demonstrated his skills of deadlifting criminals riding motorcycles with one hand and dismantling iron doors with his bare hands.
was also quite powerful when he went in to deal with criminals. He punched the criminals with one punch from his left hand and one from his right hand, leaving the criminals unable to resist.
At the same time, in order to further increase the enjoyment, the frequency of fights in "Crime City 4" has also been increased a lot, with as many as 12 fights in the entire game.
There are two fighting scenes that are more exciting.
The first scene: The killer surrounds Baek Chang-ki.
In the dark room, a group of killers stood at the door.
Bai Changji sat calmly on the sofa smoking a cigarette, looking at the killers in front of him and sneered.
Then as his accomplice on the other side locked the door, Bai Changji rushed forward, took out a knife and started fighting.
This 1v-plus action scene was completed in a long shot.
not only vividly demonstrated Baek Chang-ki’s “evil and crazy”, but also showed the audience a wonderful and bloody cold weapon battle with more than 1v.
Game 2: The final showdown.
The final duel of the film is placed in the airplane cabin. Ma Dongxi puts on gloves and fights against the villain Baek Changki and his associates alone.
The whole fight was a 1v2 bare-handed fight, and then Baek Chang-ki used knives to compete with Ma Dong-seok in weapons and fists.
Because it was in a narrow airplane cabin, every move in this 1v2 battle became more impactful and painful.
The small space also reflects Ma Dongxi's tank-like sense of oppression, giving people an ultimate sense of "meat and output".
It can be said that this kind of fist-to-flesh fight scenes are fierce and rough, constantly stimulating the audience's adrenaline and making people's blood boil.
The second one is the more fierce and cruel villain.
The reason why the "Crime City" series is so popular is that in addition to One Punch Man Ma Dong-seok, the villain plays an equally important role.
After all, the protagonist is fierce and the villain is even more ruthless, so the battle between the two is more exciting.
In the first film, Yin Qixiang played the gangster Zhang Qian, who used an ax to kill people everywhere, and was extremely cruel.
The kidnapper Jiang Haesang played by Son Seok-jiu in the second part is ruthless and doesn't talk much, but is arrogant, domineering and bloodthirsty.
The villain in the third part was not crazy enough, which indirectly led to the low reputation of the third part.
So this time the creative team learned their lesson and let the villain Baek Chang-ki, played by Kim Moo-yeol, "open up" from the beginning.
Bai Changji appeared wearing all black, his face was expressionless, his eyes exuded full of murderous intent, human life was completely unimportant in his eyes.
On the streets of the Philippines, even though there were policemen with guns standing in front of him, Baek Chang-ki still drew his dagger without hesitation.
first killed the police and then the coders who escaped. He even dared to go to the police station alone to kill his accomplices and then escaped unscathed.
The only one who is so arrogant that he dares to enter the police station and kill people is Baek Chang-ki.
And whether it is his subordinates or the boss, as long as you mess with him, he will serve you with a knife, and the knife will kill you without any delay.
It can be said that Baek Chang-chi, played by Kim Moo-yeol, is a bit as crazy as Son Seok-jiu in the second film.
It is worth mentioning that Ma Dongxi and Kim Moo Yeol collaborated on "The Legend of the Evil" in their early years.
In that movie, Kim Moo-yeol was a policeman and Ma Dong-seok was a gangster. This time the identities of the two people were switched, which was quite interesting.
Kim Moo Yeol’s performance in the film is also a plus, performing the character’s madness, ferocity, cruelty and cunning.
Especially after killing everyone, he lifted up his shirt and wiped the blood on his face, revealing his eight-pack abs, full of tension.
In addition, "Crime City 4" also has funny gags.
The task force encountered financial constraints, so Interpol Ma went to work as a mediator for the gang and collected some settlement money by the way.
The gangster Zhang Yishuai (played by Park Ji-hwan) who was frequently caught by Detective Ma in the first part also returned for a limited time and became a non-staff member of the task force.
Today's Zhang Yishuai is different from what he used to be. He runs a video game arcade, has luxury cars and beautiful women, and looks like a rich man.
He and Ma Xidao sang in harmony, just like cross talk, and contributed a lot of jokes to the film.
Because he did not want to cooperate with the police, he frequently showed his flaws while undercover. During the confrontation with Detective Ma, he even learned Chinese.
Detective Tajima was trying to pin him down every minute, took out a badge with FDA on it from his pocket, and casually made up that FDA was a dark detective.
Zhang Yishuai happily accepted the certificate and began to help the police.
At the end of the film, he ran a red light on the street and was stopped by the traffic police.
He took out his ID and claimed that he was a secret police officer, but instead he was detained on charges of impersonating a police officer.
It turns out that fda means the US Food and Drug Administration, and police in English is police, not folice.
was filled with jokes instantly.
Overall, "Crime City 4" is still considered a qualified commercial action film.
However, the declining series ratings also revealed the problem of the series, which is that it is too "routine".
A simple story, pure violence and timely laughter, but this routine started to become boring in the fourth part.
And as a series of movies, "Crime City" plans to shoot the 8th part.
If this creative idea is still the same, it is really hard to say how long the "Crime City" series can continue to become popular.
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