It was a second-rate crime thriller.

Lottie 2022-12-09 00:21:56

First of all, I declare: I have no problem with the female protagonist's honking and not apologizing, because when he encounters something like the male protagonist, he will explode with a little spark.

Even if he becomes a pig, Russell Crowe's tense acting skills and charm can definitely afford such a blockbuster thriller supported by acting skills, not to mention a lot of explosive action scenes. This should have been a high-scoring blockbuster similar to "Three Days of Dangerous Love", but it collapsed due to the vague theme and chaotic plot.

The character of the male protagonist is a middle-level enterprise. He was injured and opened, and then he was down and out, and began to take revenge on the society. From killing his ex-wife's family and setting fire to him at the beginning, he has become a demon. Even if the heroine doesn't mess with him, he will still take revenge on society, cause harm and destroy himself, which has little to do with insanity. This kind of person is a typical indiscriminate murderer, the kind of person who burns the bus and hacks and slashes the campus. It is completely different from the teacher in "Three Days of Dangerous Love" who has a clear purpose and a well-planned, dripping revenge and confrontation with the system.

In reality, the revenge behavior of such people, due to limited conditions and abilities, is usually a sudden crime, without any careful design, and the target is weak women and children.

The male protagonist of this film is agile and has a first-class mind. From changing mobile phones to sticking to tablet tracking devices, he quickly finds a lawyer, kills people neatly, and begins to play death games with the female protagonist. Neither a reckless snake nor a novice criminal, this kind of person does not look like a master who can be eliminated by society, but is actually more like a character at the top of the food chain.

If the screenwriter is discussing this phenomenon of the weak encountering unfair revenge society, the male protagonist's criminal genius will obviously greatly weaken the ideological nature of the film, which is one of the reasons why the theme is not clear.

Now, let's talk about the female lead. Before entering the gas station after a quarrel on the road, the film was very exciting, and it already had the appearance of the most exciting blockbuster in 2020, and then the heroine began to be insane, and the film began to collapse.

The female protagonist found out that the male protagonist was following the gas station. If she was not a female man, she should call the police. If you find that you killed the oiler, you should call the police. If you find out that your lawyer boyfriend has been killed, you should call the police. The male protagonist started to play killing games with her according to her mobile phone address book, and she finally called the police. Unfortunately, he only said that he would protect the female employer who fired her, and no other relatives mentioned it. Then his younger brother and girlfriend were killed, and his younger brother was arrested. She then picked up her son at the request of the male lead, and then her mother's love exploded, so she decided to slap the male lead? ?

Isn't this insanity? You are not a female superwoman in Hollywood, this is not a wild forest adventure encountering murderous demons, but a city with traffic jams in the last shift, call the police! I am on Xingfu Road, Chaoyang District, and the pickup truck with the number xx that killed many people is chasing me! If it really doesn't work, find a passerby to call the police, or drive the car to the police station. Everything is as simple as that.

The thin female protagonist does not do this, so she will take her thin son back to the old house of her parents and play the ultimate death duel with the vicious and wicked male protagonist. Isn't this insanity?

After watching the film, I began to reflect deeply on the film:

Are you talking about social injustice? no.

Discussing the phenomenon of road rage? no.

To educate the law by slamming the trumpet together in a murder case? Neither.

It turned out to be a second-rate crime thriller!

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  • The Man: I'm sorry but I don't think you fucking mean it

    The Man: Suicide by cop sounds fine to me

    The Man: [to Fred/Leo] All I have is violence and retribution... because that's all I've got left