The film is a legacy film that has been ignored by mainstream film critics and fans alike. It tells the story of a xenophobic riot in a country in Southeast Asia, the government is paralyzed, and an American staff member needs to flee to safety in the chaotic situation.
The film is a disaster movie, and the pacing is excellent. Just like volcanoes, tsunamis, earthquakes, and alien invasions, the rioting citizens, bewitched by extreme thoughts, lose their rationality, and kill foreigners and dissidents when they see them, just like zombies in zombie movies. Although he is human, he has no humanity at all. The escape process of the protagonist's family has twists and turns, tightly grasping the hearts of the audience. The rioting city, the roaring mob, the destroyed houses, and the corpses can be seen everywhere, the rendering of the scene is very good, a pair of ruins under the destruction of the catastrophe. The protagonist needs to constantly guard against the mob that appears out of nowhere.
There seems to be no theme of mob cities in disaster films before, and this film is a small innovation. Natural disaster horror films are usually set to be punished by nature due to the excessive development and destruction of human beings. The film is also cleverly grafted. Developed countries use multinational companies to rob local people, which arouses the public's xenophobia.
The completely out-of-control mob in this film represents the evil side of human nature, but there are also some good human nature in the film. A local person who participated in the mob uprising and paraded to celebrate the victory saw that the protagonists pretended to escape, but did not report it; the old man selling stone carvings, the ferryman by the river, etc. who let the protagonists hide, are all kind of human nature. .
The hero's love for his family is also vividly reflected in this film. Pierce Brosnan's character is a supporting cast, and the timing is so dramatic that it's a savior, somewhat diluting the suffocating escape from start to finish.
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