The highlight of "Assault" is mainly intensive action confrontation. Even Chinese fans who have been fed drug-resistant high-dose Kung Fu films since childhood will be inspired by the action spectacle in the film to stimulate a long-lost movie climax. In this "Raid", the director made the action scenes to the extreme, and also simplified some plots and characters to the extreme: a building, good and evil, there is a colluding officer in the decent party, and a villain in the battle. Brother Shui, there is only so much to say. Of course, if you look at the storyline, you will be 100% scolding your mother, but if you put aside all the action elements that only seek the original, then you will definitely get an extremely satisfying movie-watching experience.
Generally speaking, the director has created a violent aesthetic that combines authenticity and intensiveness. The former refers to the action style of real swords, real guns, and real
combat , through sophisticated design and editing to achieve dazzling effects; while the latter refers to the proportion of fighting scenes, whether it is a hot weapon or a cold weapon. , Or fists, wave after wave, making the audience overwhelmed. The combination of the two forms a concentrated explosive effect similar to "forced marketing", giving the audience the greatest degree of audiovisual experience.
A large number of close combat techniques, CQC, are used in the film. At the same time, the protagonist Iko is also a master of martial arts since childhood. I personally think that Southeast Asians are limited by their height and weight, and they are very suitable for this light, cruel, and one-stroke approach to defeating the enemy. For example, the more famous Muay Thai is the same, with a sense of speed and lethality.
Although it is very different from the traditional Chinese martial arts, it is also very enjoyable. Another digression, to put it in an unpleasant way, with the current decline of Chinese martial arts, especially with the loss of competitive fighting skills, in actual combat, if you encounter Muay Thai fighters of the same level, you will probably end in failure.
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