The border between the United States and Mexico is dry and barren, endless, with a wild charm, and a gloomy life forbidden zone. The hostage rescue operation at the beginning of the film is like a first-person shooter. The heroine leads the team to kill the enemy after nine deaths. In the end, she is put on one, which is very enjoyable. But the appearance of countless deadly corpses hidden in the wall is like poking a finger on the forehead of the audience. This is not a game, it is life-threatening.
This class of anti-drug film is not at all the scale of an infernal Hong Kong police film. With the mastery of Latin American drug lords, the long and desolate border between the United States and Mexico, the large numbers of illegal immigrants and drug smugglers, and the degree of corruption of the Latin American police, this is almost a war. This movie also blurs the gangsters and gangster movies and wars. The boundaries of the film.
The film's depiction of war uses a very clever profile description, so that the audience can always feel that the war is behind them. Want to watch fireworks at night? Ascending to the distance, Mexican drug lords are fighting on the horizon, dense machine guns and explosive fireballs of rockets, a large number of late sirens... This is more imaginative than the direct rain of guns and bullets. The most valuable thing about this movie is that it takes us to experience this kind of complete lawlessness. One plot of the film is to go to Mexico to pick up drug dealers in custody. The bulletproof convoy is like a big enemy. There are more than a dozen Mexican police escorts equipped with heavy machine guns. On both sides are broken and unfathomable slums, and dense submachine guns are coming from a distance. With the sound, the lynched corpses hung upside down on the iron bridge. You don't need to start a fight, you're already chilling. Just as you rushed across the border to breathe a sigh of relief, the battle took place where you least wanted to happen.
These wonderful schedules are attributed to director Villeneuve, but photography, sound effects, and soundtrack are also absolutely indispensable, all three of which have won Oscar nominations. The photographer Dickins, who has been nominated for 13 Oscars, brought us the configuration of the war film-a large number of aerial photography from the perspective of drones, highlighting the magnificence of the US-Mexico border and the insignificance of people. The street fighting in the first-person perspective of the night vision device reveals a full sense of reality and cruelty. In terms of sound, the sound of bullets and rain in the distance, the dead silence between the gunfights, and the soundtrack like a constantly accelerating heartbeat, a wild charm and lawless horror are ready to come out.
In such a lawless zone, morality and law obviously have to stand aside. At this point, law enforcement agencies that deal with bottomless drug lords have a significant disadvantage. In fact, law enforcement agencies are also entangled in the drug business, such as the extremely corrupt Mexican police. It is hard to tell which side they are on. Naturally, the law enforcement agencies in the United States are not vegetarian, and the methods they adopt are very much in the same way as they do. They use drug lords to fight against drug lords, to play distant and close attacks with Colombian drug lords, and to take out the overly arrogant Mexican drug lords. It's just that they still need to decorate the facade, which is exactly where the heroine finally found her role in sadness. This is obviously behind the super audiovisual enjoyment, the most topical and ornamental point.
But this aspect is also the weakness of the film. In order to express the subtle stance of law enforcement agencies, this film spends a lot of time in non-action scenes, but this part is a little out of rhythm. In the end, killing the Boss turned out to be good people talking nonsense for so long. The second is that there are logical flaws in the character's personality. The heroine has experienced hundreds of battles from the beginning, but after participating in the anti-drug operation, she has repeatedly run into a wall and frustrated. It seems that she wants to express that anti-drug is more complicated and difficult, and that the authorities ignore the law's way of doing things. But we cannot feel strongly that the heroine is unable to adapt and react excessively. The complicated background and past events of the mysterious and invincible male protagonist also have a lot of room to explore, but they are only taken away by a deep hatred.
But you want to see the legendary lawless border between the United States and Mexico, and come to an unconventional war immersively on the spot that does not talk about international law. This movie is still worth watching.
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