Whenever I feel that life is boring and empty, and there is no ups and downs for a period of time, I will always come up with a film similar to the "Raid" series to add some sensory stimulation to the dull days. And ordinary days are always the same, just the time of appreciation is different.
The story begins shortly after the end of the first episode. On the way back to the team, Rama is assigned a new undercover mission to find out the truth about the corruption of the police in the criminal organization involved in the underworld. Along the way, our great Emperor Uwais beat up the police children during the prison riot, beat up the AV manufacturer when he went out with the organization, and singled out the deaf girl and the baseball boy in the corridor... , pointing directly to the other side of victory! It's a pity that before the end of the story, when I ran out of strength and was seriously injured, I encountered another black force. In desperation, I had to play gg...
You may think that the next step is to spare no effort to criticize how shoddy the storyline of this film is, the countless flaws in the details and so on.
In my humble opinion, even if it is an action movie, with different actors and plots and different viewing needs, there are considerable differences in what is shot: Action actors who are good at fighting should not be too harsh on their acting skills. Accuracy; and under the premise that the action scenes are not very popular, the narration of the story and the adjustment of the plot are particularly important. For example, in the "Fist Fighter" series, while lamenting Tony Jia's boxing skills, he also complained about his face that was paralyzed for thousands of years? Conversely, in "Yellow Sea", just because of the pig bone war, can we praise this as a good crime action movie without any pressure? Admittedly, that scene is no less classic than the long-shot street fight in "Old Boy." But without Ha Jung Woo and Kim Yoon Suk's ingenious performances and the director's control over the entire plot, how could it have won the favor of the judges of the Baeksang Arts Awards in Korea?
With the development of the times, more and more "all-round" actors have appeared in the film and television industry. They are proficient in literary, opera and martial arts. At the press conference, they often publicize that they have been practicing hard for one month/two months/three months to make good moves. taekwondo/boxing/Sanshou; in order to enter the role, read "Actor's Self-cultivation" and go deep into the mountains/village/town... It is beyond reproach and reasonable for actors to practice in order to shape their roles. But everyone understands that both acting and martial arts are not achieved overnight. No matter how much an actor with a professional background can practice martial arts, it is impossible to have a deeper martial arts skill than the martial arts practiced since childhood. An action superstar who is agile and a monk halfway through has a lower understanding of the play than those who have been trained in professional film and television. As the saying goes, each has his own strengths. If everyone strives to develop their best strengths, and only need to modify the shortcomings a little, they will be able to achieve their own uniqueness. Because the audience is sober, they have different expectations for different actors. For example, in the "Hot-Blood High School" series (referring to Part 1 and Part 2), we did not expect Shun Oguri to use multiple nb moves to dominate Lily of the Valley. , Fighting Fengxian (actually proves this, most of them are kings and eight fists...) but it is to shape the image of Takiya Genji's rebelliousness, loyalty, vengeance, and all adolescent boys. fantasy. Likewise, when the directors got this wrong, what did the filming look like? Just look at Donnie Yen's works in recent years... What is an excellent action movie? I think there are only two criteria: one is whether the actors can produce what the audience wants to see according to their own characteristics, and the other is to avoid putting the cart before the horse. The rest can be ignored. It’s like when we go to a restaurant to eat, if the dishes are cooked well, who cares if the chef is beautiful or not, and whether the plate is big or not, after all, no matter how ugly the chef is, he is still a staff member, and no matter how small the plate is, the cooked dishes can be put down.
Back to this film, the whole film is 150 minutes in total, which is more than half an hour longer than the first film (basically used to pave the way for the story). The fighting scenes have also been expanded from the previous buildings to: prisons, ktv, streets, bus and many other locations. It can be clearly felt that the producer has more abundant funds in the production of the sequel, which has significantly improved the scenes, props, special effects, and sound effects, and the fighting scenes are also more enjoyable to watch. Knife and knife see blood, fist to flesh, cold weapons and guns are used interchangeably, and Uwais's excellent martial arts skills are the classics of the previous one. What makes people shine is the addition of many distinctive characters: just for the family The homeless man, the loyal bodyguard, the romantic dumb girl and the baseball boy... make the whole drama appear less pale and dim.
In short, like most excellent action films, this is a movie with a clear theme, you can guess the ending after reading the beginning, and the protagonist has a prominent halo; Movies to see everything you'd expect.
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