"British Showdown" - "Hurricane Rescue" + "Bridge of Spies" should be the best action movie I have seen recently ("Taxi Driver" does not count). No comedy, no gags, this movie is very un-Jackie Chan. In contrast, anger, grief, dealing, fraud, and the resulting revenge are the keynotes of the film. I feel more like this is a Japanese revenge movie in the guise of a British movie. No spoilers, just two points of doubts you may have when watching the movie: First, the identity of Brother Long. He himself said that he was born in Guangxi, participated in the Vietnam War, then moved to Singapore, and immigrated to the UK in 1984. Later, we found that Hannes had a large number of encrypted parts in Guan Yuming's files, which obviously would not be the treatment that an ordinary soldier should receive. Considering that he remained in Ho Chi Minh (Saigon) after the liberation of Vietnam in 1975, he should have stayed as a non-registered combatant, aka a spy. Combined with his ability to complete the IAF and his Chinese-born identity, I deduce that Guan should be the MACV-SOG special force [the so-called "Research and Observation Group of the US Advisory Command in Vietnam"], which was stationed in Vietnam and specialized in black operations. Foreign combatants, abandoned by the U.S. government after the war, were eventually reduced to civilians and suffered bad luck. Second, the identity of Hennessy. Hennessy is based entirely on Gerry Adams, the current Sinn Fein leader in Northern Ireland. This gentleman was originally a member of the Irish Republican Army fighting for the independence of Northern Ireland, and later turned to promoting the peace process in Northern Ireland. He was arrested by Northern Ireland police on murder charges in 2014. The UDI in the film is the neta against the Irish Republican Army IAF, but the Uster militia UVF is still the original name, which is an armed group with a Protestant background and opposes the IAF with a Catholic background. If you know these two historical evolutions first, you will have a better understanding of the plot of the movie. There is no "Youth" to watch this National Day this year, just go and watch this, you will not regret it. Also, the last sentence is very meaningful. Don't wake the dragon.
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