I came across this film by chance, mostly to relieve the depressed mood for many days and find some eyeball stimulation.
Standard cop movie. Red Mountain Company secretly found a group of people to capture some low-end people in South Africa for them to do medical experiments. One of them defected and gave the police the inside story. The Red Mountain Company hires a veteran hitman, Travis, to hunt down the witness. Travis repented after learning the inside story, cooperated with Interpol to smash the conspiracy, and justice was served.
In the film, the killer Travis played by Ethan Hawke is really good at his skills, and his movements are light and agile. Although he has only 24 hours of work, he is still the role of the general's head among the millions of troops. No injuries, at most a little blood on his face, to highlight the brutality of the battle. He has been a killer all his life, and regards earning money as more valuable than his life. As long as he gives money, he does not ask for justice, no matter right or wrong, and he puts the lives of his wife and children in it. It was only this last time that he felt the residual humanity in his heart, that he was saddened by the tragic death of his wife and children, and that he was attracted by the beauty of the female detective, which finally prompted him to do a good deed.
The female No. 1 was given the identity of an Interpol. Although in the eyes of Hollywood, the police are not necessarily really good people. However, in the habitual awareness of the audience, the police always have the upper hand with the rule of law and justice. In this way, the audience has a tendency to watch this lively fight and kill off the screen. They would put themselves in the role, imagining that they were the hero of justice, and followed the killer Travis to smash the blood from the gang of villains and burst their brains.
When it comes to the sense of substitution, it is actually an important factor supporting the box office. Various types of films are aimed at different audience groups, such as "Harry Potter" for middle school students, "Wind Rescue" for tough fathers, "Old Pao'er" for Beijing elderly Hutong Chuanzi, and so on. With the development of the plot of the film, people share the same fate with the characters. Those dreams that are only buried in their hearts are realized on the screen, and those emotions that are difficult to explain to others can be vented on the screen. When creating characters, writers and directors usually fall into two extreme categories. One is that characters and plots are far away from life, such as "Superman" and "Spider-Man", where people are allowed to reverie and make up one dream after another. The other type is close to life, making people feel that the characters in the play live by their side, and can be seen everywhere on the street, even I am him. Such as "Fragrance". But no matter what kind of person or what kind of thing they do, in the final analysis, they will not be divorced from human nature. Whether you are him or not, you all share love and hatred, love of life for loved ones, hatred of evil and hypocrisy. A brilliant director will work hard to excavate the human nature of various characters, win the resonance of all audiences, and play an educative role invisibly.
The female lead in the film is played by Xu Qing. In addition to making the film more exotic, it also shows China's recent influence. The first time I watched Xu Qing was in the early TV series "The Roots of the Imperial City", when she was still a little green. Unexpectedly, when I grow old, I will kill the world. I remember that she was a small role in "The Ring Messenger", and she was praised by Bruce Willie insincerely. In this film, she was a solid female lead. However, the expansion of screen space does not necessarily mean the enhancement of acting skills. In China, everyone's acting skills are similar and indistinguishable. Play with Ethan Hawke and you'll see the difference. When she heard that her son was kidnapped, our Aunt Lin was astonished, and she was in pain. The complex emotional changes of the characters are not reflected in the slightest. Looking at Ethan Hawke's performance again, Travis thought of the tragic death of his wife and child, closed his eyes slightly, opened them slowly, moved the corners of his mouth, and released them again. There is no need for a line, the pain, regret, regret, and the strong feeling that must be shown in front of others are vividly interpreted. By contrast, we have to practice.
A characteristic of Hollywood films is simplicity. At the beginning of the film, the witness gently stroked the ring on his ring finger after telling Xu Qing about his recruitment by the Red Mountain Company, and said, "This is it." Seeing this, the audience may have basically figured out the relationship between the characters. : He was one of the killers who surrendered to the police for the sake of family and justice. If this plot is put here, I am afraid it will take half an hour to introduce it.
Looking at the whole film, although the director is relatively weak and the plot is bad, the scenery in South Africa is very beautiful, with desert dust and rolling mountains. As said in the film: "It's so beautiful that you can't breathe." Give it a like!
My rating: 5.5.
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