The new action crime film starring Gerard Butler, the two shootout scenes are full of firepower, the literary drama is a bit far-fetched, and the final reversal seems a bit abrupt, but overall it is good. Each of this theme is inseparable from the influence of Pirates of Fire. This story took 140 minutes to shoot, it seems a little too procrastinated, and I give it 7 points.
Los Angeles, the global capital of bank robbery, has 2,400 bank robberies a year, 44 times a week, 9 times a day, and a bank robbery happens every 48 minutes. This screenwriter's math is about the same as mine, and I didn't get the numbers above.
In the early morning, an armed truck stopped at the entrance of the fast food restaurant and the security got off to buy breakfast. A group of masked armed gangsters suddenly rushed out and surrounded the truck. During the confrontation between the two sides, the gangsters shot and hit the armed escorts who were trying to resist. When the police heard the news, they immediately shot the horse and killed them. The two sides fought fiercely. The robbers, with their powerful firepower, successfully suppressed the police and drove away in the truck.
When the police inspected the scene, they were surprised to find that the two sides suffered serious casualties in the fierce exchange of fire, but the robber drove away in an empty delivery car without a dime in it.
The police analyzed that this was an oolong made by the robbers who got the information wrong. The hot detective Nick (Gerard Butler) confirmed that the gang of robbers must have come well prepared, and there must be a big conspiracy in the future. Gerald Butler's figure has a tendency to develop towards the governor, and the burly one is more and more like Xiong Er.
From the identity of the gangster who was killed, Nick concluded that the empty car robbery was done by a group of gangsters led by Meliman. The core members of Meliman's gang are all military veterans, all have experience in overseas wars, and all of them are cold-blooded killers who have experienced many battles. Recently, a little-known gangster Downey often hangs with Meliman. Nick thinks there must be something strange. After discussing with his companions, he decides to use Downey as a breakthrough to solve the case.
Nick and his companions then kidnapped Downey at the bar where Downey was working. Under the coercion and temptation, Downey finally said that Miliman brought him in because of his outstanding driving skills. But he was only a peripheral member of the robbery operation, a soy errand, and did not understand Miliman's true purpose. Nick's group of police kept putting pressure on Downey, but Downey reluctantly agreed to act as an undercover agent to spy on Meliman for Nick.
Downey carefully inquired and finally found that the target of Meliman's group was the bank of the bank, the Los Angeles branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States. The cash inventory in it at all times was between 500-800 billion. But there is a trap inside. The serial number of each banknote is recorded in the database of the Commonwealth Bank. If any one is missing, as long as it appears anywhere in the world, the bank will find it immediately.
In addition to reserve currency, the function of the Reserve Bank is to destroy broken old banknotes. The daily destruction of the Los Angeles branch is 300 million US dollars. There is no record of this money in the bank database. It is this huge sum of money that Miliman is eyeing.
On the one hand, Meliman's shocking plan is in full swing, and on the other hand, the police led by Nick persevere and follow up, getting closer and closer to the truth. The fierce battle between the police and the bandit is imminent, and there are conspiracies after the conspiracy, and the real mastermind behind the scenes will be even more unexpected by the audience.
I've watched a lot of literary and artistic films these days, and the bird has faded out of my mouth. I want to find a popular one to increase the speed of adrenaline secretion. Looking at the poster and choosing this one, Gerard Butler's two Falls still played well.
Not quite as expected, not a fiery shootout from start to finish. The real action scene has only the beginning and the end of the two paragraphs, and the two paragraphs are very exciting. The powerful firepower of Meliman's gang is very shocking, and the character setting of most of the robbers and military veterans makes the gang of gangsters have extremely high military literacy. In the final battle between the police and the bandits, the movement of the bandits' spiritual power and the tacit mutual protection and cooperation are very exciting. Carp is not a serious military fan, I don't know how real it is, but it looks good.
This one is at an upper-middle level among similar themes. The martial arts drama is slightly inferior to the classic "Robbers in Fire" and "The Thief in the City", and the literary drama is not as good as "Afternoon on a Hot Day" and "The Insider". "Pirates of Fire" has had too much influence in movies of the same theme, and it seems that no one can find the shadow of "Pirates of Fire". There is too much pen and ink on the family emotional entanglement on both sides of the police and the bandits, and the structure is also a bit unbalanced, so there is absolutely no need to stretch it to 140 minutes.
The director wants too many things in a movie, so it seems a bit careless. The final reversal must be the highlight of the movie, but there is too little foreshadowing in the early stage, and too much effort is put into the fake drama to cover up the truth, which makes the revealing of the mystery similar to the easter egg at the end appear very sudden. Although it can be self-justified, it is inevitable that it seems very far-fetched.
All in all, it is still a good action thriller, and it is still some distance from the classics. It is highly entertaining and might as well watch it.
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