personally believes that many of Jason Statham's previous works are at best suitable for writing short reviews, which is enough. However, if it is said that it is a brainless fast food, I cannot fully agree with it. The short, flat and fast rhythm makes most of his works short and profitable, and has accumulated and cultivated a large number of fans around the world. Otherwise, the popular "Fast and Furious" series wouldn't just let him show his face in the easter eggs, and he didn't want to smash all the money out. I am interested in using "The Last Tough Guy" to describe Jason Statham. At a time when the traditional Hollywood action movie is dying, and only relying on feelings to make a few buckets of gold at the end, Jason Statham does his part to become The only qualified successor to the past action film overlords. "Flying solo" has always been his deductive attitude, and it will basically be his final destiny. The sudden emergence of special effects in the later stage is nibbling away the montage of hard bridges and hard horses with greedy faces like no one, and the movies that are full of punches and flesh are getting less and less favored by the audience, and they will always take those old guys. Their classics say things, those who are three down and five out two can dismiss the younger generation, and most of them lose ugly and completely. Jason Statham alone cannot hold up the entire sky. However, "Hummingbird" gave me a glimmer of light. It is undeniable that this is indeed a transformational work, but it reveals more, no doubt, the traditional tough guy genes, which are very heart-wrenching.
The original British version was titled "Humming Bird", while the American version was changed to "Redemption", perhaps for commercial reasons, otherwise, "Humming Bird" is a hundred times better than "Redemption" more than. On the surface, it seems to be a clear theme of "redemption", but once you get to the bottom of it, it just doesn't have much to do with redemption, which is very literal. The war-torn male protagonist Joseph Smith, after watching five comrades in arms being slaughtered, collapsed in an instant and made a move that would keep him from turning over forever. The life that followed was one of being wanted by a military court and one of self-criticism. Therefore, it is natural to bring out the route of saving oneself and reshaping life. However, on closer inspection, Joseph was actually a walking dead, and brought himself to an irreversible hell. Those series of chivalrous, benevolent, and tragic ways of treating others and things are paved for others, and their starting point has nothing to do with their own soul. The efforts and changes he made were his responsibilities and emotions towards others. Even if he wanted to redeem himself, the object was definitely not himself. Even if there are thousands of beacons for the prodigal son to turn back, he doesn't want to catch any of them, and staying for a while is enough. Once the kernel was put forward, the metaphor became clear: the hummingbird is the only bird in the world that can fly backwards. By extension, that is, they can go back to the past and linger in the past, which is precisely the life dilemma faced by the hero. He placed himself in the memory without limit, using paralysis instead of resistance, always turning back and unable to move forward. Deep down in his heart, he is a war machine that cannot be recycled and transformed, and he will either be killed by someone or someone else.
Speaking of transformation earlier, Jason Statham obviously encountered this bottleneck that cannot be ignored but insurmountable. The young man who once made his debut in "Two Smoking Guns", climbed the "Fate Express" series into the audience's sight, and drove two luxury cars of "Rage", thoroughly rooting his image of a young tough guy in the hearts of the people. Subsequent works mostly focused on single tough guys, occasionally paired with old actors, but they were all lackluster. In "Parker" before this film, we can still see his hard-working spirit. With such an endless overdrawn of muscles and skills, blood and sweat, no blank plot, and unchanging acting skills, while watching and enjoying it, at the same time, I forgot what he was acting. This is like Mickey Rourke's performance in "The King of Wrestling", the brilliant creation of blood and sweat will eventually be forgotten by the world. It is also like Nicklas Cage, who fell into a slump in his career. Although he has received countless bad movies, many years later, when people mention him, they will still talk about "City of Angels", "Stickman", "Lord of War" and so on. Wait. And what about Jason Statham, what would he have.
A tough guy is an attitude to life, and there are indescribable hardships on this road. Those "literary and artistic models" in "Hummingbird" that make people play, what changes is the appearance of a tough guy, but what can't be changed is the true nature of a tough guy. Uninhibited to nuns, gratitude to friends, and tyranny of ugliness, the sins of war and the ugliness of society are all integrated into the spiritual world of an ordinary soldier, and they are all released by his every move. It seems to see that Jason Statham is eager to transform, and hesitantly hesitates because of the dense thorns ahead. The whole picture of life is full of flesh and blood, affection and righteousness. A little more "Hummingbird", a little less "Parker", as long as the tough guy's heart remains the same, the nun can win it, what kind of movie can't play?
PS: This poster is too tasty.
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