Last year's "Cold War" was also very good, but probably because the new director was not confident enough and made the plot too complicated, making the audience a little confused. In fact, the plot does not need to be very complicated, as long as the conflict points in the plot are concentrated, the characters have a sense of contradiction or hierarchy, and the shots and editing are neat, it can look good. "Drug War" is like this. To Qifeng gave Gu Tianle the big part of the trick. He played the contradiction, hesitation, and cleverness and cunning of this role. Although the role of Sun Honglei, the emperor of the drama, is brilliant, he is still an overly straightforward people's policeman.
The plot is intertwined with contradictions. To put it bluntly, there are only four people: the police, the Hong Kong people, the deaf, and Gu Tianle (the duo of Zhong Hanliang and the driver and drug addict are also reluctantly independent), but their roles have been fully utilized. The two bridges in the hotel posing as contacts imitated "Mission Impossible 4", although the visual effects are slightly inferior to Hollywood, but the rhythm is quite good. The design of the scenes is very exciting. For example, the street is waiting for the red light to test a section. A few pan shots explain the hidden bosses, adding a lot of suspense. The unloading at both ends also increases the layering of the picture. Another example is the shootout scene in the factory. The two deaf men look stupid, but the whole film is incomparable. Kind of neat, straight-forward. In the climax of the CS battle where the car is used as a bunker, the technology is absolutely excellent. Gu Tianle opened and closed the door of the car, which not only changed the battlefield situation, but also reversed the whole plot, and highlighted the characteristics of this character.
Du Qifeng solved the problem of censorship in the Mainland very well. In fact, the General Administration is not so sensitive to the heavy-mouthed scenes. As long as there is no explicit sex scene, it only depends on whether the ending is a villain or not, even if it is hard to add subtitles. At the end of the film, although it is still a police officer, it is not abrupt at all, but it has a sense of fate.
Of course, it's not difficult to find some logical loopholes (spoiler), why didn't Gu Tianle tell the police the authentic thing? In this way, the deaf man was released, and in the end he was planted on the deaf man. In the end, he was handcuffed by Sun Honglei. Why didn't he look for the key to Sun Honglei's handcuffs? What is even more unfortunate is that if the characters and plots can have richer connotations, such as revealing the social causes of the drug problem, and the tragic characters of the characters, or more infernal or conspiracy theories, maybe a film can be made. Chinese version of Los Angeles Confidential. However, it may be difficult to pass the trial like this, and the quality of the actors is also far from that of Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, and James Cromwell. Huang Yi and Kim Basinger are hundreds of blocks away.
Overall it's quite entertaining.
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