As early as ten years ago, Jackie Chan gave up the European and American film market. But this political thriller action film dominated by European and American filmmakers is Jackie Chan's best work in the past decade - it's ironic.
The plot is interlocking, the details are rich, and the multiple narrative lines are interspersed with each other without being chaotic at all, which is obviously due to the exquisite polishing of the script and the professional control of director Martin Campbell.
The actor's performance is impeccable, Jackie Chan's vicissitudes and hatred, Brosnan's cowardice and scheming, all performed just right.
Art, photography, editing, soundtracking, costumes... all embody the professional and aesthetic level of European and American filmmakers.
This isn't ostentation, it's just a matter of fact. For example, there is a scene where Brosnan plays Hennessy and his betrayal underling, Hugh McGrath. At the beginning, the two of them are each having a different idea, and they don't know how to start the scene. At this time, their distance and position are like this. of:
And as the conversation continued to deepen, the camera turned into a positive and negative fight:
In the end, when the conflict intensified and the face was completely torn apart, the distance between the two people narrowed and they were in the same picture, and the side faces of the two facing the camera were in a backlight state, so dark that it was almost impossible to see, and the camera followed the quarrel. White-hot and slowly advancing, the two are like two beasts biting, exposing the dark and evil side of their hearts:
For such a seemingly simple dialogue scene, its camera movement, light and shadow structure, line design, actor performance, and scene scheduling are all carefully arranged and highly integrated.
In recent years, we have always said that what Chinese movies lack is a mature industrial system, and when we talk about the industrial system, the first thing that comes to our mind is the special effects in Hollywood blockbusters, but post-production special effects are only a part of the film industry system. The industrial system refers to the The script, director, actors, photography, art, editing, etc. are all highly professional, and there are no obvious shortcomings.
The British confrontation is the product of the mature Western industrial system, and it is an all-round good. And this kind of all-round goodness is the gap between Chinese films and European and American films.
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