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April 2, 2021
The reason why I thought of writing this movie is just because this movie is a well-known Hollywood superstar - " Keanu Reeves/Keanu Reeves " who has played a movie character whose temperament, personality and inner are the least in line with him. And this "Justice Watcher" is also considered to be the "counting down" movie work in the resume of this well-known American star, so after many years, I will simply comment on it.
In fact, this is a relatively typical old-fashioned police and gangster type movie. It is a bit of a “thriller and suspense”, because the sense of depression in the thriller is not heavy, and the suspenseful interrogation content is almost “nothing”. This movie is more like the kind of "two heroes" theme work where the good and the evil are at odds, and the black and white are clearly opposed. One good and one evil, one righteous and one evil, one policeman and one bandit, are evenly matched... Is it "evenly matched"? As of this writing, I don't think so. This movie can be written like this. From the beginning to the end, "black" leads "white", "evil" stirs up "righteousness", "bandits" provokes "police", and even the man in the film The police protagonist played by " James Spader " [Joe Campbell/Joe Campbell] He can't stand the psychopathic killer of the Chenlong Virgo in this movie "David Geriffin/Big David Griffin" and chose to "run away" from Los Angeles to Chicago. In the end, I didn't expect that this serial killer was not far away, "infatuated" chased the police character, and continued to "harass" with his life, and what did the police character get after dealing with this murderer for three years? Actually "none". "I don't know what he looks like"... Didn't you meet the murderer in the year when your dead wife was devoured by flames, and almost chased after him? (This part of the memory is somewhat different from the plot of the movie, it seems that it is not the wife.) Moreover, the original soundtrack at the beginning of the film is quite a cutting clip with atmosphere, I really think, in fact, the hero can try to shoot, to By " Keanu Reeves/Keanu Reeves"The perverted killer starring, at that distance, and there doesn't seem to be any more pedestrians in the clip, it's almost a clear vision, since you have a gun in your hand, why don't you try shooting? I think if this movie starts at the beginning Shooting in the chase scene may not have so many "mental breakdown" scenes and the slightly "cliché" "psychological rescue" content. Yes, in this film translated as "Justice Watchers", that The policeman who represents "justice" is most of the time with a sluggish and blurred look in his eyes. He is completely helpless in the grief of his deceased wife. This positive character even missed the candid photos of the victimized women that the perverted killer sent him directly. Photo, is this too irresponsible? This police detective character, as a "justice" party, can even write that, in this film, even his own wife cannot be protected. He has always been a suspect , led by the nose. Even in the end, even knowing what the murderer "looks like", it was the serial murderer in this movie played by " Keanu Reeves/Keanu Reeves " who took the initiative to "appear" before be ended.
Yes, regarding the shaping of this positive character, there is a feeling of "powerlessness" from beginning to end. When the camera turns to him, it is the dim and dim "warm and cold" lighting, the warm tones in the past, Wandering and wandering in the current cool tones, it really gives the viewer a feeling of "sleeping". It wasn't really good until the end of the film. I really think that in this movie, the acting of " James Spader " is even more "fooling". But maybe it's just the helpless and desolate feeling of being "invincible"? But really, the perverted villain played by " Keanu Reeves/Keanu Reeves " - "David Griffin" is simply not up to the "scalp-tingling high" that can convince the audience. IQ perverted character." The "high IQ" of the perverted killer in this film is all in the lines of the frontal character "Joe Campbell". I just don't understand, since everyone "knows" each other so "thoroughly", how can they "know nothing" at all? This is contradictory. And this police character is a deserter who lost his armor and armor at the beginning of the film. His spirit has been destroyed from the inside out by this "perverted killer". He is not a "watcher", but more like trying to To get rid of the "fugitives" of the past.
Therefore, this movie is more suitable for another translation, although a bit "wretched", but more accurate - "Voyeur Killer". Instead of "Justice Watcher." In the English word "Watcher" means also - the observer, the watcher, the observer, and even the meaning of "watching". The character that this word directly points to is the one who is not revealed on the poster of the film——[David Geriffin/David Griffin].
Not to mention, I think the poster for this movie is well done. It's like this-
Well, it's a bit like the 2005 comic book "Constantine". And the slogan of the movie poster of "Don't go home alone" is also a bit chilling. But the process of committing the crime presented in this movie... The murderer himself did not shout with a loudspeaker: "I am the murderer!"... And the main character in the film "Joe Campbell/ Joe Campbell "until the last female victim of the film was murdered, he did not find out the murderer himself, and almost every female supporting role stared by "Griffin" failed. As for the "perverted killer" in this movie, his modus operandi, I don't think he is superb, and even a few times he was almost caught without the protagonist's shot. As a result, the movie gave a very "reluctant" reason to "get away with it" - the car was good, and it also killed several police characters. Hmm...what can I say? "As expected of John Wick."
Yes, if someone asks me which of the more representative screen characters this movie reminds me of " Keanu Reeves/Keanu Reeves ", it would be "Fast", "Fast", "Fast" "John Wick", who is also murderous in "Prepare for War", is also known as "Night Demon" in Jianghu. Yes, "David Geriffin/David Griffin" in this "Voyeur Killer" is like the "previous life" of "John Wick" who is still immature, and even the hairstyle is somewhat "similar". It's just that the action series that turned the salted fish over is a bit more "involuntarily" vicissitudes. In this movie, all I can say is, "Too deceitful." Yes, if " Keanu Reeves / Keanu "Reeves " is really a perverted murderer, so I can only comment like this - people can't look at their appearance, they can't just look at their appearance. Yes, it is entirely possible to interpret the reason why the murderer is not enough to "shudder" in this movie - the surface is not the same. I think as long as a woman is facing such an innocent man with sparse eyebrows, she will never think that this is a "killer maniac", right? If there is anything "horror" about this movie, it is here.
As for the "foundation" that seems to end in this film, there is indeed. This character should be the self-enclosed police character played by " James Spader " in "Love" - "Joe Campbell/Joe Campbell". Not "coming out", but already overflows the screen. This is the "perversion root" of this character - a homosexual character. Yes, the "David Geriffin/David Griffin" in this film is really a metaphor for this group. And the "love" he gave to the positive character was the dead female corpse and the deep pain of the character "Joe Campbell". In fact, this "hidden psychology" of this movie is indeed a bit "intriguing", but in this police and gangster thriller, it is not too clear, and there are so many regrets. I think this kind of psychology, in a similar movie, doesn't need to make a fuss. It's not that " Keanu Reeves/Keanu Reeves " has never played such roles, but in the more literary film "The Uninhibited Sky", he is a decent person.
Also, the film's photography, lighting, costumes, and soundtrack are all pretty good. There is quite the "full" image style of Hollywood is the era. But to say whether this movie is worth "recommended"... ugh... unless you are a die-hard " Keanu Reeves/Keanu Reeves " fan, or it is really boring, this film Movie. As for " James Spader ", I personally have never been a fan of him. It seems that at least the movies he has acted in, and the classics are few and far between, that's all.
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