"Gangster Legend": The passion of that year is now plain

Patricia 2021-11-12 08:01:16

In the 1940s and 1950s, after many years of military service for the country, the just and brave American soldier became a police detective after he retired. Various unreasonable and unreasonable cases occurred in the process of handling the case, and I felt that the city I lived in had completely become a crime city for the gangsters to do whatever they wanted. The government officials who were bought off, with fearless gangs, openly confronted the police to challenge the government. In order to give the world a peaceful life, so that family and future generations can grow up healthily. The righteous detective resolutely challenges the darkness and authority with his own strength, and secretly recruits talents from all walks of life, vowing to fight the evil forces to the end.

The film is adapted from a series of reports compiled from relevant documents of the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1940s. Directed by Ruben Frescher, the director of "Zombie Land", Josh Brolin and Sean Penn staged rival dramas. The last hand-to-hand battle between the two was more vigorous, and the other sections were too plain and left an impression. many. The younger generation is joined by Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone. The handsome guy sacrificed his life to grab the handsome chick next to the black boss, a little nervous and ups and downs, only in the stage of posing, there is no large-scale photogenic with enthusiasm. Although the other entourages had a lot of dazzling casts, the performance was quite satisfactory and there were few highlights.

Although the director is as close as possible to the style of "Once Upon a Time in America" ​​as the standard, he tries to recreate the climax of gangster movies by referring to the routines of "The Expendables". But tonight is not the past, time has passed, and people are wrong. The theme of gangsters has long become an old antiquities in the soil, and people have a long memory in their hearts. Engaging in a bunch of fashionable men and women can hardly sustain the cruel atmosphere of the matter at that time, and can only achieve formalism in a frivolous manner. It must not be reminiscent of "Big Shanghai" directed by Wang Jing in 2012. The production is not so good, the plot is not tortuous, and the interpretation is not hard. Only because the audience lost a little bit of the mysterious worship of the past. After seeing too much blood and evil, they have no sense of the thrill of the old antique, and deal with it with a normal heart.

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Gangster Squad quotes

  • Officer Conway Keeler: Son, your dad's a genius.

    Keeler's Son: [nods yes]

    Officer Conway Keeler: Go tell your mom that.

  • Jack Whalen: You expecting some trouble, Mickey? You lookin' for some?

    Mickey Cohen: My dog, Mickey Junior... he shits more trouble than you're gonna give me.