Undercover New World

Rowena 2022-03-26 09:01:11

The film is considered to be "Infernal Affairs" plus "Underworld", but it has its own Korean style. The themes of gangsters, police officers, and undercover agents are more common, but the focus of this film—the undercover agent’s abandonment of light and darkness, and the successful reversal in the end, has become the highlight of the film.

The film is about the unexpected death of the boss of the underworld group, which has caused competition for the position of the boss. In order to prevent the Kinmen Group from further infiltrating into the legal field and continuing to grow, the police promptly proposed the "New World Plan", which aimed to interfere in the election of the Kinmen Group's successor. At the beginning of the film, it makes people feel that Ding Qing is a condescending, smug and cool playboy, but after dealing with the undercover agent, he realizes that he is a ruthless gang leader. For Li Zicheng's love between men, people feel the brotherhood similar to that in Hong Kong gangster movies. Li Zicheng has been very tangled in the heart of the film. There are a lot of inner struggles, he has to face the coercion and play of the police boss Jiang Section Chief, the fear and nervousness of Ding Qing to find out and deal with the undercover, and the pain and entanglement of Ding Qing at his hospital bed before his death. Ding Qing and Li Zicheng's performances are very good.

"You have to be ruthless, so that you can survive." From six years ago, it can be seen that Li Zicheng is more ruthless than Ding Qing, but he has a lot of concerns. He became an obstacle to the boss, and he achieved a new world of his own.

The film is violent but not reckless, bloody but not terrifying; the plot is unexpected, but reasonable, and worth watching.

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