Chasing the Dragon evaluation action
2022-03-09 08:02
"Chasing The Dragon" is a work full of sincerity, and the standard is also very high in Chinese movies. The film shows sincerity, removes all formalized and aesthetic movements, and only pursues fierce and real fighting. Let the audience not feel that this is an action movie and play, but at the end of the movie, it still returns to the temperament of an action movie. The last shootout is the finale. I don’t know if the director’s original intention, but the form is already a classic Hong Kong-style action. The film is also a Hong Kong-style fraternity in spirit. Of course, it is still very entertaining and appealing. The film is a typical balanced work. Although it has ambitions, it finally returns to the road of Hong Kong temperament. Said that "Chasing The Dragon" is the most respectable one in Jing Wong's decades of directing career.
"Chasing The Dragon" is the heart of director Jing Wong's feelings, and it can be seen that he is very serious about explaining the plot of the movie. If a good character setting is the beginning of the success of the film, then the ups and downs of the plot, the realistic retro scene costumes, and the film-like shots all reflect the director's ingenuity and ensure the high completion of the film. Spend. It is very worth mentioning that Lai Hao went deep into the tiger's den to save Lei Luo, interpreting the brotherhood with great arrogance, and also broke a leg because of it. The director skillfully used dramatic techniques to make this paragraph the biggest climax of the first half of the film, which made the audience feel deeply moved by their siblings, and at the same time couldn't help but sigh. Perhaps this is the intense reverberation and deep memory of Hong Kong filmmakers for the glorious past after they went north.
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