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Although Donnie Yen established his legendary status in the Chinese action movie circle with the "Ip Man" series, in fact, long before the "Ip Man" series, Donnie Yen has already made many classic action films, such as this one that does not lose "Ip Man" "The Fuse" series.
As an action movie, the biggest highlight of "Fuse" is the MMA action style that combines various fighting skills such as jiu-jitsu, boxing, and wrestling. In order to make this film well, Donnie Yen specially invited fighting masters from Korea, Japan, the United States, Thailand and other countries, and it took more than a year to design the overall martial arts style of the film.
The whole film is extremely hot, full of many action scenes that make fans adrenaline rush. For example, Donnie Yen beat up Shi Xingyu.
Turned and kicked in the air.
The German rear axle fell.
Shotgun, AK47, sniper rifle showdown in the woods. There aren't many gunfight scenes in this film, but it's also very exciting.
The most classic is of course the battle between Donnie Yen, the "strongest villain in the universe" and Zou Zhaolong, the "strongest villain". The hot scenes are endless, and the level of excitement is close to Jackie Chan's "Police Story" and Jet Li's "Fighting Heroes".
Ground triangle twist.
High whip legs.
Cross solid.
Bomb fell.
Knee to elbow.
Left hook.
Naked behind.
In order to obtain the best viewing effect, Donnie Yen not only designed many difficult movements, but also required punches to the flesh, so all the leading actors were also shirtless. Of course, injuries are inevitable.
Lu Liangwei's right periosteum and ligaments were injured, and his thigh muscles were also torn.
Shi Xingyu's eardrum was pierced, and he was kicked by Donnie Yen until he was dislocated.
Zou Zhaolong, who had the happiest fight with Donnie Yen, suffered injuries to his waist and legs.
Even Koo Tianle, who has always been known for his literary drama, will also go into battle in person and have a one-on-one hand-to-hand battle with Donnie Yen.
As the starring Donnie Yen, he played so vigorously that he was injured many times during the filming, especially the part from the tail keel to the pelvis was compressed into a figure-7 shape due to injuries. If it deteriorated, it would even affect breathing. It can be seen that in order to present a wonderful action film to the audience, Donnie Yen worked so hard when shooting this film! In this sense, Donnie Yen's "Fuse" can be said to have inherited Jackie Chan Bo Ming's professionalism in filming.
In the following clip, the two hit the roof beam from the balcony, and then both fell from the air. This action is extremely difficult to design, and it is extremely easy to be seriously injured.
This action scene is so classic that India's "Fearless Police Officer" copied this passage almost intact (the key is that even the scene was copied correctly), but it is obvious that the speed of the whole set of actions, The strength, realism, fluency and other aspects are far from the original.
The only thing that is not so manly in the film is probably the two beauties of Fan Bingbing and Xu Qing who make cameo appearances.
The box office performance of "Fuse" after its release is far from that of a blockbuster. The mainland only won 34.5 million, and the Hong Kong area was only 9 million. But this is somewhat because the action design concept of the film is somewhat advanced, which makes it difficult for some audiences to accept it.
It is gold that always shines. Although the box office is not good, the double best action design award at the 27th Hong Kong Film Awards and the 44th Taiwan Golden Horse Awards is undoubtedly the greatest affirmation of this film.
Now, looking at it with hindsight: in terms of action films, this film is not only the strongest masterpiece before Donnie Yen's "Ip Man" series, but also one of the best in the history of Hong Kong action films. , one of the rare peaks of action movies since. At the same time, it is the excellent performance of this film that further deepens the Iron Triangle: the cooperation of starring Donnie Yen, director Yip Weixin, and boss Huang Baiming has the opportunity to open the legendary road of the "Ip Man" series.
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