In fact, this "Ace Showdown" is quite good, and the screenwriter has also made some excavations in the connotation of thoughts, although it is this excavation that led to the film's final flaws. The movie begins with a shot of a single cowboy Pierce Brosnan sitting in a snow-capped mountain, and the sudden shot pierced his arm. The attack attracted Liam Neeson. So the life and death tracking in the jungle and snow-capped mountains began. The entire first half is showing in detail Liam Neeson's tracking of Pierce Brosnan and Pierce Brosnan's avoidance. The second half is the face-to-face confrontation between the two. Only then did they begin to explain the background of the story and the reason for tracking. It turns out that this story happened in the latter part of the American Civil War. The American Civil War in history was a united war, and in the end the North defeated the South. The story in the movie is that the war is over. Pierce Brosnan was once a northern general. Now he plans to disarm and return to the field because of the end of the war. During the war, he burned the war to the home of the southern general Liam Neeson, and His subordinates killed Liam Neeson's family. That's why Liam Neeson, who was full of anger, hired a few killers and wanted to kill Pierce Brosnan. This is the main clue of the story. Tracking and anti-tracking are all because of the war.
The war turned the two former heroes into primitive people tracking and fighting dogs in the field. The living people tried everything to survive, and they didn't hesitate to kill; while the tracking people were unscrupulous because they wanted to achieve their goals. , And even more slaughter. What the screenwriters are trying to explore is that their anti-human behavior is actually the ravages of war. It is the war that turns people who are good husbands into people who achieve goals and unscrupulous means, and turns the originally upright men into bereaved dogs. You can't panic all day long.
It’s just that this anti-war theme, suddenly taken out at the back, does not match the wild and wild atmosphere in the front. It is this point that makes the back reversal to wash away the brewing atmosphere in the front. It also makes the whole film seem a little lacking. For the audience, which theme is of secondary importance, the key is to see whether the story is good-looking or not. The design of the front and back conflicts obviously makes the whole movie's excitement even feel like a sudden turn. However, the performance of the two large men is still quite eye-catching. The bearded Pierce Brosnan makes it hard to recognize who the actor is at a glance. Moreover, his toughness and coldness in the film are also very different from his performance in other films. And Liam Neeson brought out the image of a hateful father and husband to complement each other. Both characters are wandering between good and evil, full of wrestling and tension.
If the whole story continues to be interpreted according to the first half, it can be said that this film can become a classic, which is a pity. I can only sigh, a good script is too difficult.
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