Everything in the film originated from a misunderstanding over a phone call. I don’t want to talk about the plot setting. It’s very, very complicated, and the screenwriter is also very smart. He can tell which is more important. Except for the beginning and the end, there is no mention of the cause and effect of the murder. It also puts the film's focus on the Five Ways and their methods of murder.
The first disc introduces the five-way crew and their preparations. It is handled reasonably, and the multi-line and multi-branch plots are connected by the police's narration, which is compact and improves the rhythm of the whole movie.
The center of the entire film is on the second disc, and here's an introduction to these five people.
1. Three bounty hunters, former police officers, level-headed, members A, B, C where C always seems absent-minded and unconvincing.
2. Character D used to be involved in extorting confessions or similar work, and the methods were cruel and ruthless.
3. Character E, a bounty hunter, with superb killing skills, was arrested and imprisoned, and bitten his fingers in prison to destroy his fingerprints, the only evidence.
4. Three crazy killers, members F, G, and H, with fierce methods, they enjoy killing and fighting, and they are very desperate in the process of killing.
5. The two female killers M, N, and M are very marked, seduce the target and take the opportunity to kill. N is a sniper, who protects and covers M from a distance.
Five people chased and killed character Z for a million people. z lives in the nth floor of an upscale hotel.
Before departure, the first passerby was ambushed by the fourth passerby, two killed and one injured, but the one who survived was "the one who didn't work hard" C. The four passers-by of A obtained the security outfit borrowed by A and used it to infiltrate the hotel. E pretended to be the FBI and sneaked into the security room, killed the foreman in the security room, got the security clothes and entered the elevator, ready to go to the nth floor for assassination. As it happens, one of the real agents, Q and E, arrives in an elevator, and the first real shootout begins.
Q entered the elevator and didn't find E's identity, and started to play with E until he noticed E's finger. The footage and editing here are just right. First, a close-up of E's finger is shown, and the camera is immediately cut to Q's terrified but unmoved face, and the camera begins to pull down, at which time Q's hand begins to slowly move towards the pistol. The tense atmosphere immediately dissipated in the movie, and the shootout was about to break out. At this time, the director gave a very deep shot. There was Q's face in the shot, and it was slowly pulled to the right, and the mirror in front of the face reflected countless numbers. Reflection of an E. This shot reconciled the tense atmosphere to the extreme, and also showed the true and false identities of the two FBI. As for the strength of the two sides, the judgment was made.
E sensed something from Q's tone, and an awl slipped into his hand. At this time, the phone rang, and the two took action at the same time. Q quickly pulled the pistol and aimed it at E. Before he pulled the trigger, E's awl had pierced into Q's hand holding the gun. Q shouted, endured the pain and continued to shoot. E fell backward after being hit by the gun. At the same time, the other hand also took out a pistol and shot at each other with Q. The small elevator was filled with flames and gunshots. A masterpiece, the lights of the elevator were also turned off. After the lights were turned off, the camera switched and the first shootout ended. All of this takes place in a suffocatingly cramped elevator, with a strong sense of tension and depression. I really admire the director's ability to grasp the atmosphere.
The second shootout ensues. M is waiting for the elevator. He can drive the elevator but sees E and Q, two dying FBIs. When M was checking the identities of the two, P, who heard the movement, came to the scene with an FBI combat team. The second shootout was on the line.
M heard the movements of P and the combat team, and used the phone to contact N to ask for cover. P stopped the combat team, went to the elevator entrance to investigate, and saw Q. So he shot into the elevator angrily, waited for P's bullets to light up, M used a laser flashlight to send a signal to the floor where N was, and when N's sniper rifle felt the infrared pulse, it automatically cut to M and fired stray bullets at all times. The FBI was killed immediately, and then hit the other two agents. At this time, M turned to shoot at the FBI. Although the FBI was superior in numbers, the situation took a turn for the worse. Here the director uses a hand-held camera, and the props are real knives and guns, and every bullet is loud, and everything is more realistic and exciting.
After a burst of indiscriminate shooting, M was injured, and he simply used the elevator to continue going up to get rid of the agent's shooting. The second shootout is coming to an end.
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