I am pretty sure that before you read this article, you have been spoiled about the fate of the two male protagonists-they finally turned against a real gem, and one of them killed the other. But if you don’t mind getting spoiled more, you can read on.
The movie begins with a series of people [beep] bomb scare [beep] attacks. One of them is in a supermarket in Kansas City, where the scene shifts from a frightened mother and daughter to a terrorist. The feeling of depression and shock coexist.
Then the perspective turned to Africa, and the familiar big bucket of water appeared in the picture, as well as the familiar casual pants and casual shoes. The protagonist directly put his feet in front of the audience. If the film had a 4D version, the effect of this section would be so sour.
Thanos gathered all the gems in Wakanda, and after snapping his fingers, he did everything he needed to do. The reason why he still stays in Africa is probably because he wants to strengthen his infinite sandals. After all, there are many holes in them, suitable for inlaid gems.
The Chief of Defense [BEEP] of the United States values the ruthless style of Thanos, and invites him to come back to preside over the overall situation. The Mexican drug gang not only sells drugs to the United States, but now also helps terrorists smuggle. [Beep] The Lord suspects that the recent successive attacks are inseparable from the Mexicans, so please come out and destroy them. Thanos thought of a way to kidnap the daughter of drug gang boss Reyes. So what this person is best at is to use wicked means to achieve lofty ideals.
Of course you can't forget your brother if you are doing wicked things. Thanos then went to drag the old man collector into the water. They first killed the lawyers of Reyes' competitor, the M Drug Gang. Before the collector kills, he has to let people wear black-framed glasses to prove that no matter what powerful magic item is, encountering his quick gun will not improve the wearer's chance of survival.
I deliberately consulted my good friend and handgun enthusiast Qi Ye, what is the principle of this unique shooting posture of the collector. The answer is to use the cushioned fingers and recoil to achieve the human-flesh semi-linkage effect and increase the rate of fire. Actually, I didn't understand it either. In short, my understanding is that it is faster to use two hands like this to hand a pistol.
The kidnapping target was Isabel, the daughter of drug gang boss Reyes. She had a fight with her classmates on campus that day. If Thanos saw this scene, 80% of him would think that the rebellious little girl is a manufacturable, so he would be more gentle with her, give her a small knife and other meeting gifts, and by the way make his own claim to adopt others as an adopted daughter.
Thanos and collectors disguised themselves as the M drug gang who had been harmed by them before. They kidnapped the little girl, slapped up cruel words, and completed a wave of harassment operations of planting, framing, and instigating discord. Then they pretended to be a hero to save people, trying to deceive the little girl's trust. In fact, they have seen everything through, and I turned a blind eye to the performance that should cooperate with you.
Then Thanos and collectors used a whole fleet to escort the little girl to the transfer. Anyone who has seen the previous work knows that the transfer of hostages is when something big happens. Sure enough, it was the local Mexican police who were responsible for clearing the way for the Thanos gang this time. To deal with this kind of rookie, Thanos snaps his fingers. Although the enemy was wiped out with minimal casualties, the little girl escaped in chaos. After such a big problem, Thanos needs to return to the United States with the main force to explain to the leaders, while the collector stays alone in Mexico to find the little girl.
After returning to the base, Thanos got news that the previous terrorist attacks in the United States were carried out by citizens of their own country and had nothing to do with the smuggling business of the Mexican drug gang, so their operations were to be terminated. The female CIA official who conveyed the bad news was played by Catherine Keener. Like Thanos, she is also an actor who has been very active recently. The villain of The Incredibles 2 was dubbed by her a while ago. When evaluating the cartoon, I mentioned that she continued the hypnosis master set from last year's "Escape from Deadly Town". In "Border Killer 1", the heroine's partner in the FBI is Daniel Kalua, a big rhino farmer in Wakanda who almost couldn't escape from the town of Death. Now this pair of unshakable mother-in-law and prospective son-in-law have joined this series.
Without the support of peers, collectors can only fight alone. He tracked down the little girl and stayed with her at the house of Angel, a deaf-mute man with a kind heart. When asked why he could sign language, the collector stated that it was because his dead daughter was a deaf and mute person. This year is regarded as the year of Josh Brolin's explosion, but I think the strongest thing about the presence on the big screen is not a certain actor, but the communication tool of "sign language". From Dashi Johnson's "Raging Behemoth" to "Frontier Slayer 1" heroine Emily Blunt's new horror film "Silent Place", to this "Frontier Slayer 2", the protagonist has mastered sign language This skill is often used in the warmest passages of the film.
The beginning of the story of "Border Killer 2" is to crack down on the smuggling business of Mexican drug gangs. Ironically, in the latter part of the film, the collector as the protagonist has to take the little girl and use this illegal route to return to the United States. Like the previous game, this film also set up a branch line of small Mexican characters. This branch mainly revolves around a teenager named Miguel. He has American identity and can freely cross the border, so he was trained by the gang boss as a "shepherd dog" responsible for leading illegal immigrants. In the first half of the film, he was ordered to eat chicken in Texas, walked in the parking lot without looking at the road, and was almost hit by Thanos and the collector's car, so he held a grudge. When he found that the collector was taking the little girl on the smuggling bus managed by their gang, he decisively gave a small report to his online. As a result, the identity of the collector was exposed and he was taken to the desert for execution. The gang leader wanted to take this opportunity to train his subordinates, but the selected younger brother couldn't get the killer, instead he was headshot by his boss. When it was Miguel's turn to take the shot, he did not hesitate to masturbate the collector, and then a group of people took the little girl away, thinking that everything was going well, waiting to get rich.
Although the leader did not want Thanos to continue to blend in, he felt that it was too unreasonable to leave the collector alone in the wolf's den, so he personally brought two armed helicopters back to Mexico to save people. Miguel had a foreboding that his boss got in trouble with someone who shouldn't be offended, so he jumped out of the car early. His boss personally escorted the little girl Isabel, but he didn't expect to meet someone driving a helicopter on the way. The helicopter crossed over and blocked the road and forced to stop the vehicle, which is one of the coolest scenes in this film.
Thanos took his teammates down from the helicopter, and there was another sudden turmoil, clearing out the Mexican gangsters and snatching the little girl back. And the collector who was brutally shot on the other side was not dead, the bullet only passed through his cheek and left two blushes on his cheek. He leaned on the belt buckle on the corpse to cut the restraints of his hands and feet. By the way, the last time I saw someone planning to use this trick to get out in a movie, it was Fu Lanlan and Sai Pang’s "Pineapple Express", which was also a drug-related film. Perhaps this trick was particularly popular in their circles. However, this trick was used as a joke back then, so seeing it reappearing in this film, I feel a faint sense of joy, and the tension of the collectors who struggled to get out of trouble before disappeared in my place. Saved.
A year later, Miguel, who has become a small boss, wore a greasy haircut and wandered in the mall filled with the smell of greasy fried chicken, but unexpectedly met a collector who survived a catastrophe. The latter has a neat suit and looks like a dog. Ask him, do you want to be a real Sicario? It reminds me of Nick Fury, who is also so fascinating, that people can't help but wonder whether collectors are going to form a border killer alliance, right?
Originally I heard that this movie was going to be used as a prequel about how Alejandro's family was killed and how he was blackened. The feature film is completely different. I think this arrangement is good now. Whether it is a hero or an anti-hero, audiences nowadays have no patience to watch the origin story of bitterness and enmity. Take the familiar superhero movies as an example, Marvel’s "Invincible Hulk" and "Spider-Man: Homecoming" both skip the origin story. In many cases, the audience does not want to know how the hero's ability comes from, just want to know how his enemies have no land.
The director of "Border Killer 1" Villeneuve and his partner photographer Roger Diggins were busy taking over Thunder King's "Blade Runner" before, and the photographer Darez Voss who Thunder King has partnered with in recent years Dariusz Wolski (Dariusz Wolski) was brought in to give the shots of "Border Killer 2". In terms of video style, I tried my best to restore the previous work. Although it may not feel so strong, but at least the audience with the pleasing expectations will not feel hot. By the way, the poster of this film at first glance makes people think of "Caribbean Kelp". I don’t know if it was the photographer’s idea, because he is still the photographer of many films starring Johnny Depp, including the "Caribbean Kelp" series. guide.
In addition to the two masters behind the scenes, the heroine Emily Blunt in front of the stage also did not appear in this sequel, which made many viewers regret. Therefore, this film was initially regarded as a purely male drama lacking a female perspective. In fact, the film is not without the heroine, but this time the female police detective with a strong sense of justice has been replaced by a little girl who is the target of kidnapping. When I watched "Transformers 5" before, I didn't think Isabel Moner was so good-looking. This time it really shines. It can be seen that the texture of the scene is more impressive. Although the female protagonist in the previous work has a relatively strong identity setting, in front of the two male protagonists, they have been in a state of being crushed. On the contrary, this time the little girl is more powerful in comparison.
I only watched "Border Killer 2" for five minutes, and I thought to myself, if I were Trump, I would personally like this movie on Twitter, and strive to make it as popular in the United States as "Operation Red Sea". The heat in China is the same. I have always felt that Lin Chaoxian stole the "Border Killer", but in terms of photography, neither he nor the mainstream audiences of domestic cinema films care too much, and the action aspect has brought in the lively flavor of many Hong Kong police and criminal films for commercial considerations. , This is not so similar. This time, "Border Killer 2" has a larger action scene than the previous one, so the target audience should be those who like to watch "Border Killer 1" but do not reject "Mekong Operation" and "Red Sea Operation". Or, conversely, those who like "Operation Mekong" and "Operation Red Sea" but don't reject "Border Killer 1" can be regarded as taking a closer line in terms of style and commerciality.
In the trailer, "Border Killer 2" advertises the return of the original crew to production, but as mentioned above, the three most representative members of the original crew did not participate this time. Of the remaining original cast, the two male protagonists are of course the most important signs, but it is the screenwriter Taylor Sheridan that really keeps me looking forward to this movie. Last year he directed and acted in the "Hunting for the Wind Valley" is a movie I like very much, even more than "Border Killer 1", so this sequel left Villeneuve, many people are singing But I don’t think it’s a big deal. The screenwriter is still alive.
The two "Border Killers" focused on showing the cruel scenes of the US-Mexico border. It feels like they are echoing the wall-building plan of Trump, and the unscrupulous style of the two male protagonists gives a special kind of politics. Incorrect feeling. But to say that this screenwriter is deliberately going against universal values, it doesn't seem to be the case. "Border Killer 2" specially arranges a positive image of the deaf and mute, which is in line with the political correctness standards of Hollywood movies. The previous "Hunting in the Valley of the Wind" focused on the living conditions of ethnic minorities, and praised the spirit of resistance of women and the tenacity and vitality far superior to men. It is also very politically correct. So correctness or incorrectness is not the key. What really affects the excitement of the script is whether the screenwriter is enough.
Alessandro, the protagonist of the "Border Killer" series, and Lambert, the protagonist of "Hunting the Valley of the Wind", both lost their beloved daughter, and formed a father-daughter relationship with the heroine in the process of handling the case. It’s just that the father-daughter relationship in "Hunting the Wind River Valley" appears to be more gentle, while the "Border Killer" embodies the kind of awkward father-daughter relationship that seems to be a problematic family. The "father and daughter" in "Hunting the Valley of the Wind" are respectively held by the Avengers Hawkeye and Scarlet Witch, who also played Thanos' daughter. This shows that in Taylor Sheridan's eyes, Hawkeye is a figure on the same level as Thanos, and he must be counted on to save the universe.
If domestic creators want to learn the style of "Border Killer", they don’t have to be limited to the subject of drugs. They can also focus on something that is more common, more grounded, and more closely related to ordinary people’s lives. Criminal activities, such as stealing battery cars. Another advantage of choosing this theme is that if Benicio del Toro, the actor of "Frontiers", can be invited to act, his image in such a domestic film will not be too inconsistent. feel. As early as ten years ago, he played "Che Guevara", and then he can consider playing "Stealing Guevara" under the influence of Chinese film and television capital.
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