I have to admit that the trailer is very attractive. The weak woman who has lost her husband and daughter has grown into a killing machine that punishes evil and promotes good. It feels good to think about it. The fight scene is really clean and neat, not at all sloppy, and it looks really enjoyable. At the beginning of the movie, the heroine was treated unfairly by justice, which made the audience hate it so much that it was even more enjoyable to watch her revenge later. The fly in the ointment is that there are many loopholes in the plot, and it is difficult to convince people. Rotten Tomatoes is full of criticism, with a score of only 11%. Many people complained about Jennifer Garner 's wonderful performance and thought she deserved a better screenplay. However, the movie box office is not bad, and the cool revenge movie will always have a box office. When Jennifer Garner was on the show to promote the movie, she said that she had undergone a lot of combat shooting training before making this movie. She went into battle in person during the filming process. One time she injured her hand. In order not to delay the shooting progress, the crew put the X-ray machine on the next day. Moved to the set, let her put her hand in between shots, looked at it and said it was fine. After a month, her hand was still swollen, and the doctor looked at it and said, "Oh, yes, it's broken." So, Jennifer Garner 's professionalism It is still worthy of admiration. The performance in the play is also remarkable. Before raising a hand, even every look is a play.
In addition, I found that the trailers of many movies are not the same as the feature films. Many of the scenes in the trailers do not appear, and even the plot is different. Because I have watched the trailers too many times in the cinema, it is difficult not to notice. , for example, in the trailer, the heroine said to her daughter: Who's my girl? My girl has love in her heart, snow in her eyes, and peppermint in her blood. This sentence does not appear in the feature film, and even after buying mint-flavored ice cream for his daughter at the beginning, the film never mentions peppermint. Many people complain that the name of the movie doesn't match the plot, maybe this is the director's intention: to use a cool and cute movie name, but the plot is bloody and violent, and the two are in stark contrast. In addition to this, the trailer mentions that the local crime rate has dropped sharply, which is entirely attributable to Riley North, the heroine who has returned from training. However, in fact, Riley North is just coming back for revenge, and the people she kills are her enemies, not all violent crimes like Marvel superheroes. How did it come about?
Closer to home, here 's the spoiler :
The movie opens with a passionate car shock, but the camera zooms in. In fact, Riley North is fighting her enemy in the car. In the end, Riley North is stabbed in the thigh, and the enemy is shot in the head by her. She dragged her tired and injured body back to her car in the slum, bandaging herself, and burst into tears as she picked up pictures of her deceased family members. The camera goes back to the day of her daughter's birthday five years ago. Riley took her 10-year-old daughter Carly to the supermarket for shopping. She happened to meet the female classmate and her mother who often bullied Carly. Riley has always been forbearing and taught her daughter to be kind. After leaving her daughter to her father, Chris, who runs a car repair shop, Riley went back to work. However, she was gentle and elegant, but was asked by the evil boss to work overtime temporarily. Even though Riley told the boss that it was her daughter's birthday, the boss still showed no mercy. Dad's friend tried to convince him to take part in the robbery of a very powerful drug lord Diego Garcia (who gave them the courage? Is it Liang Jingru again?), but of course the kind Chris refused, although he didn't even participate, this The incident was discovered by the big drug lord. After killing the friend, he planned to kill Chris's family as a warning. Riley, who worked overtime until late at night, saw her daughter's birthday party was empty. The father and daughter sat there with disappointment. It turned out that the mother who bullied her female classmate deliberately invited all the students in her daughter's class to her house. At the party, daughter Carly even said it was the worst birthday of her life (it turned out to be true, and it was her last birthday). In order to cheer up her daughter, Riley suggested the family go out for pizza and go to a carnival for her birthday, and her daughter jumped and danced happily. After a night of playing, the family bought ice cream and went home. Riley folded back to get a napkin. At this moment, the drug lord's men drove by and shot his father and daughter. Riley witnessed all this and fell to the ground. Finally got a life.
Despite the injuries, Riley accurately identified the three shooters. But Constable Beltran was hesitant to bring the three criminals to justice because the drug lord behind them was too powerful. Beltran explained to his partner Carmichael that the last police officer who tried to convict the drug lord was arrested. Murdered, and now his badge is still in the drawer of the police station.
Before the pre-trial, the criminal's lawyer suddenly visited Riley's house and tried to bribe Riley with cash. Riley refused the lawyer's bribe and drove him away. The lawyer found the antipsychotic drug Riley had put on the table. Using this evidence to accuse Riley's testimony of being unreliable, the judge, who was also bribed, acquitted the three criminals and released them in court. Riley's defense lawyer also remained silent, seemingly bought. Furious and out of control, Riley rushed to beat the three murderers, but was electrocuted by the police and escorted to a mental hospital for examination. On the way, Riley escaped and disappeared from the world.
Five years later, police officers Beltran and Carmichael arrived at the scene of the carnival murder and saw three bodies hanging from the Ferris wheel. The sense of ceremony was very strong. This caught the attention of FBI agent Lisa Inman, who made an appointment with the two officers and told them that Riley had robbed the bank where she used to work before disappearing, and is now back, robbing a gun store with loads of rifles and ammunition. In the five years since the original disappearance, Riley secretly trained himself in Hong Kong to become a killing machine.
Riley first blew up the judge in his home and killed the defense attorneys for both sides. When the police learned about it, they decided to bring the matter to the media, which sparked a discussion about whether Riley was a hero or a criminal. Riley then went to the drug lord's money laundering center, killed nearly all of his men, and burned his money. The drug lord was very angry and decided to set a trap to kill Riley. Riley almost fell into the empty city plan set by the drug lord, escaped from the explosion, and followed the drug lord's men to the drug lord's home. Riley continued to kill almost everyone. When she was about to rectify the drug lord on the spot, the drug lord's young daughter suddenly appeared, reminding her of her deceased daughter, who was accidentally attacked by the drug lord. Seriously injured. She fled to the home of the classmate who bullied her daughter. At this time, the classmate's mother was divorced and looked down. Riley beat her with a bruise, then bandaged her wound at her home, and then returned to the slum where she lived.
At this time, FBI agents had already discovered the slum and found Riley's car. She called police officer Carmichael to the scene. Unexpectedly, Carmichael was also bought by the drug lord. He killed her while the FBI agents were not prepared and took the body. Throw in the trash can. Afterwards, Carmichael tipped off the drug lord, who came down with a big help to take Riley's life. At this time, Riley, who did not know it, also returned to the slum, and found the body of the FBI agent in the trash after hunting down several subordinates of drug lords. Riley used the FBI iPhone to contact the media and broadcast the whole scene live, exposing the bribery. Police Carmichael, and contacted the Los Angeles Police Department. Under duress, Riley had to confront the drug lord, delaying enough time for the police to arrive. Surrounded by police, Riley still headshots the drug lord and mysteriously escapes in full view.
Constable Beltran found Riley dying in front of Riley's family's tombstone, and despite Riley's plea for death, officers took her to hospital for treatment. Conscientious Constable Beltran told Riley that many people thought she was righteous, and quietly gave her the key to the handcuffs and let Riley go.
The ending of the movie leaves a foreshadowing of making a sequel. Although the current film critics are very vicious, I expect this movie will still make a sequel, because Jennifer Garner 's neat skills look really good, and it's a pity that the story ends here. Police officer Beltran was afraid of death and ignored what happened to Riley. He was also a perpetrator. In the end, he let Riley go is his salvation. The movie seems to want to convey such a message: good people are not rewarded! Violence must be overcome with violence. I don't know why, but the whole movie feels very empty. Professional film critics did not give the film high reviews, but audiences were very impressed with it. The North American box office reached more than 13 million, second only to The Nun.
American gangster tips
American gangs are so rampant that even the police are afraid of this fact. For example, MS-13, the most murderous underworld organization in the United States, whose full name is Mara Salvatrucha, means barbaric Salvadorans. Los Angeles developed into an international crime gang. El Salvador is a small country in Central and South America. On August 20, 2018, it just broke off diplomatic relations with the Republic of China and established diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China. MS-13 is characterized by its large numbers and brutality, with more than 50,000 members in the United States. In 2003, a 17-year-old MS-13 female informant who was four months pregnant was killed while she was under witness protection for contacting four former gang friends without authorization. She was slashed 16 times and her throat was cut into three pieces. In 2004, six MS-13 gunmen armed with AK-47 intercepted a bus and shot dead all 28 passengers on board, most of them women and children. In Miami, several middle school girls were brutally raped and murdered on the street by MS-13 members because they had been yelling at them on social media. MS-13 members often have special tattoos on their backs, and friends living in North America must hide as far as they can when they see it. The tattoos on the faces of the three criminals in the film are very similar to MS-13, which seems to be alluding to them.
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