The film begins with the daily work of the security personnel of two ordinary cash-transport vehicles. The fixed positions in the cash-transport vehicles are used to explain the characters and backgrounds, and at the same time, the two positions of the front window and the door are shown as what will happen next. Prepare for the event. Soon, a construction vehicle appeared in the front window in the background of the camera. In the foreground of the camera, the robber broke the door and threw a flash bomb. A set of actions was completed in one go. Finally, two security personnel were shot and killed in the front window as the end of the incident. The dramatic hot opening of the skirmish scene, the standard Hollywood narrative opening grabs the audience's attention.
Next, the protagonist Jason Statham appeared as a new employee of the security company in the first act. On the first day of work, the old master nicknamed "Bullet" introduced Dave, Dinah and other colleagues and the overall situation of the company. Here are the A relatively long still shot is of Statham standing at the check-in place to observe, setting up suspense in the atmosphere, paving the way for the following plot; in the billiard hall, various old employees expressed nothing wrong with the arrival of the newcomer, only Statham robbed the job. John tried to come forward to provoke, but was also deterred by Statham's powerful aura. An ordinary office worker who is low-key, silent, neither humble nor arrogant, allows the audience to establish a preliminary impression of the protagonist.
This impression was quickly reversed. Through the two incidents of robbing the money transporter, one wiped out the robbers and once frightened the robbers, so that Bullet and Dave in the same car realized that this was not a job with ordinary marksmanship and obscurity. 11 years of ordinary security, but still can't figure out Statham's true identity. Following these two incidents, there were awards from the boss, affirmations from colleagues, and even Dinah's embrace. After a night of dinner with Dinah, Statham suddenly began to question the unknown source of Dinah's family. Money, and even investigated Dinah's family as a threat in advance, the director finally revealed the truth secretly. Statham came to the security company to investigate whether there are ghosts inside the company who are using power for personal gain, but the reason is still unclear. .
At this point, the first act of the film, which took 37 minutes, ended, mainly introducing the background of the story, setting up the suspense of the character's identity, arousing the interest of the audience, and paving the way for the reasons for telling the story later.
The second act "Scorched Earth" begins to demystify the suspense in the first act. The time flashes back to 5 months ago, when Statham and a little boy were chatting and preparing to go out. In the middle, Statham picked up the After a phone call, I found out through a conversation that the boy was Statham's son, named Dougie. At the same time, Statham was also the boss of the gang. Today, there happened to be a hijacking of a cash truck, and Statham was needed to help monitor it.
After some entanglement, Statham decided to take his son to the surveillance location, ready to use the time to buy burritos to complete the surveillance task. There was an accident on the way to the mission, and another group of robbers also stared at the cash truck and took the lead (here I complain about how bad the security in the United States is, so many people lined up to grab the cash truck), and The robbery of the cash transporter in the first act is the same scene, but the screen turns to witness the whole process of the robbery from the perspective of Dougie, and was killed because he saw the face of one of the robbers, and the late Statham was also shot. Sent to hospital. The echo here is very ingenious. In the first scene, only two security personnel were shot. Dougie's death was taken lightly through the robbers' dialogue in the car space, and there was no picture of Dougie and Dougie's death. . After the second scene changed from the narrow space inside the car to the wider space outside the car, Dougie's upside-down perspective made the emotions more oppressive and present.
Statham, who recovered from the hospital (there is also a small detail here, the robber in the first scene said that his accomplice would kick his legs, so Statham walked with a limp and was discharged soon, logically consistent), gathered all his little brothers and started After a carpet sweep, after several bloodbaths, the murderer could not be found, so he changed his mind and planned to find the inner ghost in the security company of the security company, and then find out the robber connected with it.
By the end of the second act, Statham's identity and motives are very clear, but another mystery is where the robbers are so sacred that even the most familiar gangsters can't find them?
The third act "Bad Animals, Bad" focuses on the robbers. It turns out to be a group of Afghan veterans who have no stable job to support their families and can't stand the blandness of daily life, so they embark on the robbery. The road of the rich and the cash truck to earn retirement money. In this process, only the sergeant and Yang are depicted. The sergeant is relatively rational and low-key, while Yang is rebellious and flamboyant. field conflict.
The camera went back to the scene where the cash transporter was robbed in the first act. From Yang’s point of view, he saw the security of the cash transporter trying to resist, which led to the killing. During the process, Yang, who was accidentally seen in the face, had to kill Dao. Ji, here is a medium shot, from the doubt of confirming whether he is exposed, to the slight hesitation and overwhelm to the murderer. Compared with the simple close-up of the gun in the previous two scenes, the emotions are richer and fuller, and at the same time, I can't help it. It makes people think that the US military fighting in Afghanistan has also had the moral entanglement of killing local children.
At the end of the third act, the veteran robbers with growing appetites planned another robbery case, taking advantage of the opportunity when a large amount of cash was piled up in the security company on Black Friday, directly robbing the security company's vault. Multiple clues gradually converge into one focus, ushering in the climax of the final plot. The fate of Statham, Bullet, Sergeant, and Young will all be a foregone conclusion.
Act 4 "Liver, Lungs, Spleen & Heart" (Liver, Lungs, Spleen & Heart) set aside 30 minutes for the action scene, and after sweeping past the security company and the armed veteran robbers, the screen cuts back to Statham's As the starting point of the incident, Bullet suddenly explained the identity of his inner ghost. Although the previous chapters respectively led the audience to guess that Dinah or Dave was an inner ghost, Bullet, as the real inner ghost, should have revealed in a more dramatic form. Opened his own identity, but the result was bland, a little regretful.
Relying on the response of bullets, the veteran robbers who successfully infiltrated the security company through the cash transport vehicle quickly triggered the alarm, and the staff of the armory began to fight back violently, which caused more security personnel to follow the sound to support, but they were soon caught. Veteran robbers with heavy armor and heavy weapons hold back. Taking advantage of the sporadic counterattacks of the remaining security personnel, Statham subdued the robbers who were guarding him in the chaos, and put on the robber with only part of the money, ready to escape. In order to let the robbers escape smoothly, the bullets were loaded. Na and Dave.
Because Statham's protagonist Halo killed the Quartet, only the wounded sergeant, Young and Bullet managed to escape from the security company. During the period, Yang, who was motivated by wealth, killed the unpleasant sergeant and the bullet who tried to strike first. He swallowed the stolen money by himself. The escape plan was arranged carefully and accurately, and he passed through a tunnel under a warehouse that was not marked on the map. Yet another escape from the incompetent Los Angeles police.
At the end, Yang was in the luxury house he bought with stolen money, and suddenly heard Wagner's "Valkyrie Ride", which is the ringtone of Statham's mobile phone. Through the tracking and positioning of the mobile phone in the wallet, Statham brought The flaming flames came for revenge. At this time, it was explained that the liver, lungs, spleen, and heart were originally the four locations where Dougie was shot, and Young was executed in the same way. The film is over as Statham disappears into the glowing night of the city of Los Angeles.
On the whole, "Human Fury" is a film with a standard Hollywood narrative structure, with a suspenseful beginning, a retrospective of the plot's origin, the climax of a hot scene, and a personal heroic ending. The degree of completion is very high, and Guy Ritchie is in it. The montage editing of the technical flow is added, and flashes back to the same time period from different perspectives many times to restore the fullness and details of the incident, which reminds people of the "Assassination Stronghold" directed by British director Pete Travis. The technique may be uncomfortable for viewers who like straightforward narratives, but it will be addicting to viewers who like non-linear timeline narratives. A good commercial film, worth recommending.
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