The night of indoor games on Friday night was interrupted by a pre-announced kidnapping. Players will participate in the biggest outdoor game in their lives. The hostages rebelled in anger. The players stared blankly at the "hostages" fighting with the "criminals", and even provoke the criminals. How do players with unequal information view the relationship between "hostages" and "criminals"?
"Play tonight and save you" connects the kidnapping case and the game through a high conceptual bridge, blurring the boundary between reality and fiction, creating a unique sense of suspense and comedy. The audience outside the play is transformed into the game player in the play to distinguish the distance between the game and reality. There is no breathing room in the first half, and it is easy to create a smile through the information of the characters and the audience. For example, when the audience is known to have a real kidnapping, the heroine asks the criminals to pose in yoga poses in the bar, and the fierce fights between the criminals and the hostages are with the players. The ridiculous comments are the jokes caused by the inequity of information.
The film applies soap operas and typical comedy settings to the laugh point creation. The players have distinct labeling characteristics, such as aggressiveness, stupidity, stubbornness, etc., make a fuss with their personalities, portray laugh points through label conflicts, and penetrate into the United States. The soap operas are in a situational comedy design, so the movie can quickly enter the title, and most of the characters are also impressive. See also the indispensable scenes of typical comedy, the freshness of the plot design of the plot of the whole house while healed by oneself and stole clues.
However, as the mystery was uncovered, the film did not pave the way for new mysteries, the protagonist did not doubt other possibilities, and the final result was not based on the protagonist’s trust to bring a surprise twist bridge, leading to a sudden collision between comedy and suspense. Weakened, the second half of the paragraph into the pattern of mainstream action movies, is a more discouraging approach.
In the beginning of the film, through a fast-paced cut scene editing, the hero and heroine described the process of meeting and falling in love to their marriage. Different games established the tacit understanding and competitive spirit of the two. They gesticulate and inform important information except for the carefulness of the life of the hero and heroine. It is also a perfect response from the beginning to the end. Interrupting the scene of robbing eggs in the end breaks the boringness of traditional comedy on the lens, a large number of shots that promote the shooting of the community from far to near, the characters are like living in the model, highlighting the movie's game theme, and it is difficult to distinguish between true and false. In the finale, the villain is tied to grab a gun, active and passive roles, to reverse the typical action movie protagonist to complete the final active resistance, an unexpected comedy close to the perfect end of the film.
The Hong Kong translation of the name vividly highlights the suspense of the game. The bridge section has a strong playfulness. The excellent comedy creation and repeated breaking of the structure of a typical movie show the director’s mind. It is not difficult for the audience to find fun and freshness from it, and the suspense part is solved in the middle. The mystery and the follow-up lacks a major turning point and is weak. On the whole, the movie can be watched.
Rating: 6/10
Extended movie:
"Catch Yiyin Classmates Association" (TAG, 2018, USA)
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