This is a very obvious work with many shortcomings.
First of all, the script is relatively ordinary, and ordinary people accidentally get involved in the black circle of ZZ but have uncovered the truth with 1 point of self-drive and 9 points of luck. In this work, Beckett (hereinafter referred to as B) played by Washinton Jr. and his girlfriend April played by Alicia went to Greece for a vacation. They encountered the ZZ movement. In order not to be disturbed by speeches in the square downstairs of the hotel, the two decided to drive to him. Play everywhere. B was driving fatigued on the way and overturned on a small road. The vehicle crashed into a seemingly abandoned bungalow. April, who was sitting in the passenger seat and sleeping without a seat belt, was thrown out of the front windshield and DIP.
I have to reiterate the necessity of seat belts when driving and riding. Of course it will be uncomfortable, but human beings are flesh. To obtain the bonus achieved by driving machinery, there must be a certain price. The more efficient and complex the machinery, the greater the cost of use. The uncomfortable seat belt is almost negligible. , Let alone get used to it after using it for a period of time. So please be sure to wear your seat belts in the car.
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B wears a seat belt and has no worries about his life, but his left arm is injured (possibly a fracture). When he was awake, he saw a red-haired boy in the room. The boy said a few words and was taken away by the woman who came in afterwards. Then he climbed out of the car and saw his girlfriend lying on the ground who had lost his vital signs.
B later woke up in the hospital and was briefly treated for his trauma. A policeman returned the passport he found and confirmed the death of his girlfriend. B followed the police to the police station to make a transcript. During the period, he was told that his girlfriend's body would be transported to another city, Loannina, and he was temporarily unable to see it. B managed to endure the grief and called his girlfriend's father to inform him of the car accident, but in the end he did not tell the news of his girlfriend's death.
This is the first problematic plot. B’s grief is understandable. His guilt that his girlfriend died because of an accident caused by a nap while driving makes him unable to tell the truth to his girlfriend’s parents. I, and then hurriedly changed to we)-understandably, it means that human nature is like this, which does not mean that we agree with this approach. This is obviously a manifestation of no sense of responsibility-but regardless of B persists in this kind of irresponsible behavior, Without telling the news of his girlfriend's death, his girlfriend's father was obviously going crazy on the phone. First he asked B which city he was in. B didn't say, but the other party directly said that he would fly to Athens immediately, and then B hung up the phone. The problem is not only that B’s very unreasonable and irresponsible behavior, but also that there is no more information about his girlfriend’s parents in the entire film, whether they flew to Athens, whether they found the authorities, and B has been there ever since. By the end of the film, I never thought about contacting my girlfriend's parents again.
After B hung up the phone, a gray-bearded policeman with proficient English was asked about the accident. After B said that he saw someone in the house, the police asked a few more questions to confirm that he was right. The degree of memory of the scene he saw, B can recall that the boy has red hair.
It takes about 22 minutes for the film to arrive here. Audiences familiar with this type of film can already guess the whole story when they see it here.
After B left the police station, he returned to the scene of the car accident in despair, and saw the dry blood on the ground where his girlfriend was last lying on the ground. He was distraught and took out a bottle of medicine and poured it into his mouth. It can be understood here that B feels extremely painful for losing his girlfriend, and feels even more regret and guilt for the accident. He also consciously cannot face his girlfriend's parents. The environment in a foreign land amplifies these emotions and intends to commit suicide. I personally think that this is a cowardly performance, and should not be interpreted as martyrdom.
At this time, a blonde woman appeared outside the room, drew a gun and shot at B, missed, and B escaped and hid outside the room. The woman chased out with a gun, and another police car arrived. The one who got off was the gray-bearded policeman who was interrogating B in the police station. Greybeard shouted that it was a misunderstanding, and let B show up. After B hesitated, he showed up, Grey Beard said for a while, the blond woman suddenly shot B's left hand (also the arm injured in the car accident) with a gun, and B fled. B had a gunshot wound on his left arm, which was originally fractured in a car accident and was wearing a sling.
Here is the second unreasonable plot. First of all, Greybeard is undoubtedly the villain, and his goal is naturally to kill B. But when he was in the police station, he let the unsuspecting B go. Why not find an excuse to control B at the police station? For example, you can use "We need you to go to the scene to confirm it again and take pictures to match your confession", and then ask the blonde woman to wait in the room where the car accident occurred in advance, and B can easily shoot it at close range as soon as she shows up. But Greybeard let B go first, and then came to kill B. Did you forget it before? At the shooting scene, Graybeard obviously wanted to let B relax his vigilance through lies. The two could wait for B to relax and approach and then control him before shooting. The blonde female shooter's behavior was very unprofessional. Furthermore, two apparently trained local gunmen let a foreign tourist who was injured in a car accident with one hand and was in a state of mental stress slipped away? It is necessary to know that the arms of human beings act as a balance, and it is difficult to run fast when one hand is injured and cannot be used, especially where B was chased and killed in the forest.
During B's escape, he found an abandoned truck in the wilderness, hid in and slept all night, and was found by three old local hunters the next morning. One of them took him home to help him check his injuries. At this moment, the bullet can be seen to shoot through the outer side of B's upper left arm, without hurting the bones, and the bullet is not embedded in the muscle tissue. It is called a clean shot, which is a relatively minor gunshot wound and can even heal itself in good conditions. This setting saves the need to see a doctor in B later in the film. B kept saying that he needed to borrow the phone to call the embassy. The old hunter didn't seem to realize the urgency of the situation, and he was still asking B if he wanted something to eat and so on. While talking, the police car arrived downstairs. The old hunter said that his friend might have called the police and said that he would go downstairs to send the police away. Through the window, B saw the blonde female gunman standing next to the police car and saw the gray beard downstairs. Enter and beat the old hunter (at least it means that the old hunter didn't lie). B jumped the window to escape, and the old hunter's wailing came from the room behind him.
B ran into a beekeeping couple again and contacted the U.S. Embassy by phone. The other party said that it would take a day to find and pick up B. B couldn't wait and said that he planned to find the embassy by himself. After asking for the route, he set off and got on the train, but was caught up by Gray Beard. It turns out that Greybeard also found the couple and learned about B's plan (possibly through illegal violence), so he caught up with B. Graybeard initially controlled B and tied B's hands. B struggled to resist. Graybeard drew his gun but accidentally shot him in the foot under B's push, and B escaped again.
So far, B has supported his unhealed body and injured left arm after the car accident, and escaped from being chased by local gunmen three times, including three places in the wilderness, residential buildings and enclosed public transportation. During this period, B had no chance. Eating and drinking, with gunshot wounds that continued to ooze blood on his left arm when he escaped for the first time.
On the way to escape, B saw a missing person notice posted on the street. It was the red-haired boy he saw at the scene of the car accident. Then he saw the two ladies who were posting missing person notices, approaching to ask for details, and was told that the boy’s disappearance might be related to the boy’s uncle’s ZZ stance. Supporters of the politician believed that the opponent kidnapped the boy to threaten the politician withdrawing from the campaign. Therefore, the ZZ movement mentioned at the beginning of the film is exactly what the supporters of the politician tried to appeal to the public to attract more support. B informed the two ladies of what had happened. All three believed that the people who pursued B belonged to the organization that kidnapped the boy. At the same time as a search officer came forward to question, the ladies let B hide in the trunk of the car in advance and sent off the interrogator. They exchanged more information with B on the way to Athens. The three gradually determined the nature of the incident. . Athens is not only a gathering place for supporters, but also the location of the American embassy that B wants to go to.
Encountered a temporary checkpoint on the way to check the vehicle, which is likely to be related to the black police such as Gray Beard, so B thanked the two ladies for their help and left so as not to drag them down. Then he found the subway station, bought a ticket to the destination, got on the train and arrived at the destination station, but met a killer with a knife at the exit. The killer scratched the upper part of B's left arm with the first knife, and stabbed the bandage on the left arm with the second knife. Yes, all four injuries were on the left arm. B will definitely remember to pack an extra Zilong shield when traveling in the future.
After B escaped the pursuit again, he arrived at the US Embassy with the help of the people at the scene and saw the staff who had been contacted by phone earlier. The staff handed B to another person named Steven Tynan (hereinafter referred to as S). After shaking hands to express condolences, S informed B that his girlfriend's body had arrived at the embassy. B finally met his girlfriend for the last time and couldn't help crying.
To emphasize, B's behavior before was indeed cowardly and irresponsible, but it did not conflict with his beloved girlfriend. And when B encountered a gray beard policeman on a train for the first time, he learned that the bee-keepers might have encountered gray beard violence. Superimposed on the old hunter who was beaten for helping him before, I think B’s conscience began to make him feel bad. The sense of responsibility began to form and solidify. Later, when he encountered a police interrogation in front of him during the ride, he immediately got in the car of the two ladies firmly. At this time, in addition to a sense of responsibility, B's heart also formed a sense of mission. Seeing his girlfriend the last side is the superficial level of this sense of mission, and I will talk about it later.
Audiences with a certain amount of experience in reading the film should have been able to judge that S is a villain when they saw S. The character of Boyd in the film "Logan" was brutal to Uncle Wolf, which made me hard to let go. So, after S asked B to see the body of his girlfriend, he asked about all of B's experience in detail, and made detailed records—including the names of the two ladies that B met, and the specific locations of the opportunities they revealed—then he could understand , He asked B to see his girlfriend's body not out of good deeds, but to let B off guard so as to smoothly extract all the information that B knows.
B did indeed recruit in every detail, after all, he was in his own embassy, and it was normal to be unprepared. Fortunately, B has grown up. This relaxation is quickly replaced by suspicion, because S tells B that he needs to go to the "good policeman I know" to confess everything, on the grounds that he needs to close the case before he can leave the country. Afterwards, S tried to stun B with an electric shock while driving B to the agreed place, but was stunned by the electric shock after being stunned by B in the battle that had been prepared for B. Then the vehicle lost control and ran into a roadside truck, and B fled again.
Escaped four times. Whether it is the local black police or the embassy agents, they are constantly losing their hands while planning and taking the absolute advantage. And B is all in a panic, with blood on his left arm swaying on the street, and passers-by basically don’t look squinted. , This is another unreasonable setting.
B then went to the meeting place mentioned by the previous two ladies, found the two and the crowd preparing to gather, informed the shady and issued a warning. This is proof that B's sense of responsibility has been established. He did not consider himself desperate, but prioritized the safety of others. S led the police and rushed there. One of the two ladies was from Germany. He tried to stop S and provided B with a certain degree of escape. B escaped from the back door with the help of the crowd. It's the fifth time. S chased after him, but the policemen brought by S disappeared from the audience's sight and did not reappear, adding another place is unreasonable. On the way to escape this time, the sling on B's left arm fell off, but it seemed that he had moved more flexibly.
On the way to escape, gunshots sounded nearby. B fled into the basement of a nearby building and was intercepted by S who came with a gun. The phone rang when S was about to shoot, and S answered.
WTF? ! Is there such a way to release water?
Moreover, although S was still pointing his gun at B when he answered the phone, he did not stare at B the whole time, and turned away from time to time. So, of course, B took advantage of S carelessly to copy a steel pipe to knock out S's gun, and knocked S down with messy sticks. S took advantage of the situation (really homeopathy). It turned out that the kidnapping of the boy had nothing to do with ZZ's position, but the boy's uncle owed money to the gang, and the gang kidnapped his nephew without being angry. However, S has repeatedly repeated that some of the information is confidential, so it is not ruled out that the kidnapping of the boy by the gang was carried out under the instructions of his uncle's opponent. At the same time, S told B that the call just now was to inform him that the gunshot on the street just now was that the boy was shot and killed when he was giving a speech in front of the coming supporters. In other words, at the embassy, B gave S the meeting place informed by the two ladies, and S then notified the black policemen, so the black policemen came mainly to get rid of the politicians, and by the way, S killed B. If the politician is shot and killed, then the red-haired boy becomes a burden to the kidnappers and will surely be killed.
The heavily protected politician was killed at once; B was in a foreign country carrying a wanted warrant, dragging a half-handicapped body and a left arm that was almost abolished, no car, no mobile phone, no language, no oil and salt. But I saw it once and escaped once. What kind of logic are you talking about? . .
After B brought S down, he took S'gun and walked into the street. One second after seeing the two women who had helped him, he saw the blonde female gunman. The latter did not see B and was hurriedly leaving the chaotic neighborhood. So B quietly followed the blonde, and the German lady quietly followed B. B followed the blond woman into a multi-storey parking lot and went up to the top floor. He found that the blond woman and the gray beard entered a car and planned to leave. B rushed up and knocked on the car window. He crossed the blond woman and fired two shots. The second shot was concentrated. The gray beard sitting in the co-driver was taking out the palm of the gun; the blonde girl bit B's right hand (thank god is not his left hand anymore), B dragged it out of the car window, and while the two were fighting on the ground, B shot the blonde girl right. At the knee of the leg, the blond woman also penetrated the right side of B's body, and the bullet was shot in from near the cecum and out from the right back waist. The gray beard drove away from the scene hurriedly during the scuffle, and the audience could hear voices from their trunks. B uniformed the blonde woman and met the German lady who rushed over, but he did not stop, but made the most bizarre move in the whole film:
B climbed on the 4/5th floor of the handrail on the side of the building, facing the exit of the parking lot below, while listening to the rubbing of the tires of Greybeard driving downstairs while preparing. A few seconds later, he heard that Greybeard's car is about to When he drove out of the building, he jumped down and landed on the roof of Greybeard's car that just drove out. While Greybeard was in a panic, B reached out and took Greybeard's head and knocked on the window, causing him to fail to control the car. He crashed into the car on the side of the road in the direction of the car, and then he grabbed the gray beard that had crawled out of the car and swung his vengeful fist to knock him unconscious. The German lady came, and when comforting B, she also witnessed the passers-by who pried the red-haired boy out after hearing the sound of the trunk of the gray beard car.
This leap of faith should be the most unacceptable part of most viewers: even if B is already with the mood of "I am willing to go out" at this time to reluctantly explain his reason for making this unreasonable decision, he cannot explain why he is. How to bet with confidence that your body will fall on the roof of the gray beard. Even a healthy person without professional training is basically impossible to jump from a height of 4/5th floor without injury or even death. What's more, B, who has suffered from old injuries and has just been shot through the waist, is hard underneath, not the ground. It is the roof of the car. It lacks common sense to smash it down so hard, because people who have not received professional training can hardly control their bodies in the air. If the national diving team can control whether their heads or feet are down, you can just jump off as an ordinary person. Say you happen to be on the car. If your leg is straight down, you may break your leg. If your head is down, then. . . Furthermore, I have to say that B’s mind is thinking “I don’t have time to think so much.” “It’s so easy to die if it’s a terrible injury.” It also cannot explain how he feels that he has the ability to listen to sound positions, and that he can accurately fall on it. With the graybeard on the roof, what if he jumps early and falls in front of the graybeard? Even if you don’t hang up right away, you’ll be hit or crushed head-on by the gray-bearded car. Similarly, what if you jump late? What if you jump half a meter to the left or right? If you jump down and find that it's not a gray beard, it's someone else's car. . . In addition, from the point of view of physics, object B falls from top to bottom, and the gray-bearded car drives from right to left. When two objects meet at one point and collide, the mutual force between the two objects does not change the two objects. Separate, this is unreasonable.
At this point in the film, it is over. Although the uncle is dead, the red-haired boy is saved. His salvation makes it possible for the shady to be revealed, whether it is a debt-collection kidnapper or a ZZ opponent. B, who was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief, cried twice and said "I should've died." After tears, his eyes became firm and hopeful.
This involves the deeper level of the sense of mission created by B, that is, his obsession with rescuing the red-haired boy: one life loses one life. Due to his negligence, a car accident resulted in the death of his beloved girlfriend April. He didn't have the courage to face this mistake, nor did he face many people including his girlfriend's parents. But objectively speaking, although this car accident meant death for April, it inadvertently gave the red-haired boy who was being held hostage toward death unexpectedly gaining hope of life. In other words, if they didn't have a car accident, the red-haired boy would be dead. But even if the car accident caused him to accidentally run into the dark scene of kidnapping the red-haired boy, if he does not persist, the hope of this life will soon be extinguished. Therefore, during his escape after attempted suicide, the sense of mission in his heart gradually formed: since he destroyed a life, at least he must rescue another endangered life involved in this transition. So first he wanted to say goodbye to his girlfriend, and then he embarked on the road to save the red-haired boy, whether he was a gang or official YM, in any case he had to rescue the boy. This mission can be seen as his process of atonement and saving himself. Therefore, he repeated "I should have died" twice, meaning: "I should have died but not died because I was given the mission. Now I am finished. This mission."
I gave back 3 stars for frequent loopholes. 1 star was given to Alicia, although I don’t know what it means for her to be such a brilliant actor in this film, and there is no spark between her role and B— —But still. In addition, out of my respect to John's father, Denzel Washington, whom I admired for more than 20 years, I gave 1 star. Denzel's shortcoming is that the play is too narrow, almost all tough guys, even if there is a tender part, it is basically not intimate (such as Man on Fire, and The Equalizer series); John before and Zendaya opponents Malcolm & Marie (that is very exciting In ), there are some delicate emotional flows with the heroine, but in this movie, Alicia, who is a superstar who can't hide the face of a goddess in the drama-she performed at the opera house at the age of 7 and picked it up at the age of 27. The woman who won the Oscar statuette and captured Michael Fassbende as his wife two years later-but was so stiff that neither of them showed the affectionate love of men and women at all. In the end, the male protagonist's psychology from cowardice to strong, from evasion to self-salvation is given 1 star.
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