Text | Linghu Boguang's New Year's Day schedule has passed for a long time. This schedule is unexpected but also reasonable, and it is probably Andy Lau's two new films. One is "Stealth" and the other is "Goldfinger". In fact, many viewers still have expectations for "Goldfinger"

text | Linghu Boguang

The New Year's Day schedule has passed for a long time. This schedule is unexpected but also reasonable, and it is probably Andy Lau's two new films.

One is "Stealth" and the other is "Goldfinger". In fact, many viewers still have expectations for "Goldfinger". After all, the director of "Wushuang", Andy Lau and Tony Leung will collaborate again 20 years later. It is a pity that the film turned out like that, and The collapse of "Stealth" is not surprising.

But I have already written about "Goldfinger", so let's write about "Stealth" here. This movie has become the norm in Hong Kong movies now. It has old actors, new directors, and the same themes as the scripts written by AI. It is really uninteresting.

If he continues to receive so many bad movies, Andy Lau will really die in the end.

Andy Lau's acting is really calm and restrained, and he can move freely. When he went to find Xiu Hao's family, he even felt eerie in the part downstairs. Lin Jiadong's interpretation of the role is also very good, and Peng Yuyan is also good. This handsome face is enough to look at!

Screen

Kwan Chi-yao, who is a photographer, is really good at it. The scene where Andy Lau is on the rooftop, the countdown killing scene, and the final scene in the ruins. The shots are as beautiful as works of art, not inferior to Luo Ge in Chasing the Dragon. The whole picture is also very beautiful.

Cry more

During the scene where Lin Zhenan was explaining to his daughter and to Xiu Hao in the car, Andy Lau's acting skills were really amazing. His paranoia with tears in his eyes but unrepentance was so spot on, "You had no choice but to sacrifice my family. Friends!" If it were the Cantonese version, the feeling would be more real.

Highlights

Drug trafficking on the dark web, the link on 321 is very novel, the hacker brother played by Liu Junqian is very good, I like his ruffian and crazy temperament, he is worthy of being the subordinate of the crazy male protagonist.

also has the ending. Lin Zhenan wants to "go home" and finally "runs" to his wife without hesitation. There is also that happy flashback scene, which is very touching.

The first half of this movie is okay, I can figure it out, but the second half is a mess. Lam Jiadong’s character is made not like self-awakening, but more like Lin Xue + Peng Yuyan’s PUA police mission to fulfill their duties. Andy Lau’s The acting is always online, but the chaos of the plot makes the logic of his behavior as the boss a bit awkward (although the director used a close-up of a needle, which may be suggesting that the chaos was caused by taking drugs)

The final ending still fell to the "villain" In the cliché stage of "Not much humanity, but a bit of brotherhood", let me summarize the last paragraph: Lin's identity as an undercover agent was exposed, and finally he wanted to use his brother's promise to influence Liu, and asked Liu not to kill his wife and children, but Liu didn't know whether he recognized it or not. , anyway, the car crashed and the gun battle started. Lin was shot and saved Liu. He wanted Liu to face legal trial alive, but Liu refused. He first took Lin away as a hostage, then drove Lin away and crashed into a mountain villa. Although I think it's OK, the editing and shooting of the movie, as well as the switching of lines and scenes, made this fragment confusing and difficult to understand.

There is another place where I am speechless. Brother Hua plays a drug dealer who smuggled the goods of a foreign drug dealer and his whole family was slaughtered. He ran to an island in Malaysia to hold a wedding without fear of retaliation. Then his wife was beaten to death by mercenaries who came to seek revenge. Can't we get married in Hong Kong? Is this to stimulate the villain to go crazy? It would be fine if this plot could make the villain trust the undercover agent more, but it doesn’t! The undercover information was stolen by hackers five minutes later...

A few small hackers can easily hack into the Hong Kong Police Headquarters and obtain police information. Do so many people in the police department have nothing to do?

2. After discovering the identity of the undercover agent, I didn’t kill him and his family immediately. I don’t know why I went to the scrap iron factory. (I guess there will be no subsequent plot after killing the person, and the time is not enough.)

3. The heroine’s expression was very calm throughout the whole process, and she was in a hail of bullets. The same goes for

4. There are many sensational scenes, which may be deliberate or short-lived.

In the beginning, he went undercover to protect the drug dealer because of his family. After his family was saved, he actually took bullets for the drug dealer. The drug dealer originally wanted to kill his whole family, but in the end he threw him out of the car for fear that he would die. The live-streaming of goods was originally a highlight, but it turned out not to be a single move. The hacker team knew that the IP would be exposed and did not know to change their base. The hacker who was supposed to be the most powerful hacker in the game was physically captured.Once captured, the police can hack into the dark web.

No, you have already taken down the hacker on the other side, why don't you just ask him for his computer password. Moreover, there is almost no emotional connection between Andy and his wife. I couldn’t understand the kind of family feeling that the director wanted to capture at all. The drug dealer's wife was fucked by a bullet and the child was still alive. He was sensationalizing and I wanted to pop the champagne. As a foreshadowing at the beginning, I thought the drugs were thrown into the water to cause trouble. The result is just for live streaming to sell goods. It was a Jedi knight who invited him to fish it out from the bottom of the sea. Two tons of drugs will be magnetically levitated up to you with one lens.

It doesn’t matter if all the hacker darknet threads are deleted. It’s still about anti-drugs anyway. Lawyer Andy Lau is out of his mind. He doesn’t take action first even if he has four tons of goods. He waits for other foreign drug dealers to come to the wedding to take revenge. I think the wedding wife is dead. It can be over once the person is caught, but there are all the extra shots in the back, and the result is just before the photo of the wife's death. So don't you need to accept legal sanctions? Together with the collapsed undercover agent Ananbai in front, he died.

I don’t understand how a policeman who has been undercover for twenty years and almost killed his wife and child can have any friendship with a drug dealer. Andy Lau doesn’t turn off the screen saver when he poops, and it can be interpreted as intentional fishing. The Dongguan boy will be silenced if he peeks at the computer screen. Without killing him, he trusted me again and returned the boss avatar to Dongguan Zai. Finally, you changed your head back. Does that mean that if you just ask a guy to scan your head and go in, the police won't arrest you? Who is lurking behind the scenes? It's the dead Anan.

The plot line in the early stage is sparse and disappears in the later stage. Without a main line, it is worse than an essay written by a primary school student, at least people will not go off topic. This movie scored 9 points on the Taobao vote, it’s so outrageous

First it was "Goldfinger", then "Stealth", Hong Kong movies are great

I don’t know if you have noticed, this movie is very similar to "Goldfinger", the opening texture The plot and characters have problems in shaping and logic. I don’t think Andy Lau acted very well. He had problems with the way he acted some characters starting from Storm. To put it simply, his expression was wooden.

Lam Jiadong was the best, but the writing of this character was incomprehensible. The movie "Grabbing the Patrolman's Gun" was already broken from the beginning; Peng Yuyan's character design is very good but his acting skills have not improved. The scene with Lin Jiadong in the elevator was completely unbearable and even not as good as his previous level.

Nowadays, the main actors in Hong Kong films no longer know how to tell stories. What is even more embarrassing is that most of the police and criminal actions cannot be filmed. Either the gun cannot hit the person or the camera is shaky, leaving only the bombs

"Stealth" and "Goldfinger" "It was quite uncomfortable to watch more than half of it. Why are all Hong Kong movies being made like this now? Just talking about Andy Lau, compared to the previous films such as Secret War and Infernal Affairs, I don't know how far behind it is. Even counting the storms in the past few years, Bomb disposal experts are far behind. As long as I went to Hong Kong, I would never be able to find the passion I had in visiting the filming locations of various movies and TV series.

Not to mention Hong Kong directors, not to mention what kind of director the director of "Stealth" is, the director of "Goldfinger" Zhuang Wenqiang is still a great director.

But just like the prolific Qiu Litao in the past two years, "Wushuang" is similar to "The Bomb Disposer 2". The look, feel, rhythm, and emotional control are not like those shot by him. The scene of bombing the airport at the beginning is dubbed, and the audio-visual feeling is unprecedented. , the texture is also several levels higher than "Anti-Drug 2, 3" and "Bomb Demolition 1". "Jedi Chase" is barely made to have a crotch-flattening look and feel.

The same goes for "Wushuang", with its smooth action shots and harmonious fire tones. If you look at what has been done in the past two years, scripts such as "Disconnect", "Stealth" and "Goldfinger" are simply disgusting to the audience, and "Breaking Point" The action filming method is to shake the camera to prevent the audience from vomiting. I don’t know what I’m doing in "Anti-Drug 3", which is so bloody and so destructive.

Nowadays, whether it is a new director, a big director, or a well-known actor, the look and feel of Hong Kong movies is really bad.

You really should stop making Hong Kong movies. It’s not a matter of old actors not being old, it’s really that everything is outdated.