However, being old does not mean that you are old. More importantly, even if you are old, you still have to earn money and fame. So the old men picked up the cameras one after another, and an action movie of the old men came out. The Chinese translation of the film "Red Police Dragon" is as old and unrecognizable just like this movie. Just looking at the title, you will know that the glory of the "First Blood" series will not be achieved. In this film as a whole, you can see the change of an action star in the twilight years-just like Jackie Chan in "New Police Story"-although the two do not need to be a substitute, the most important thing in the film is to sell his life. The dramatic, dangerous and stimulating action scenes have been significantly reduced, and instead of being the leader of the peak, other young actors (usually handsome) are arranged to share the play and commercial gimmicks. Have to say bitterness.
But what’s even more bitter is that the overall quality of "New Police Story" is high. From the script to the production, from the overall style to the rhythm of the story, it interprets the Hong Kong-featured police film to the pinnacle, so it lacks Jackie Chan’s life-saving work. The film is also a work of conscience in Hong Kong-produced police and criminal films, but "Red Police Longwei" is different. Here I force myself to refrain from expressing my dislike of the title again, just telling the story and the characters.
The story in the film is surprisingly old-fashioned: the killer played by Stallone, in order to avenge his accomplices, cooperates with the police played by the Asian movie star Cheng Kang (the "creative" of the cooperation between police and bandit is really not new), and fights mobs all the way , And finally singled out with the BOSS. The single structure of the story is tolerable, as long as the content in the middle is filled with interesting points. However, it has nothing. Such a simple story can be narrated so that the audience can't figure it out, the relationship between the characters and the characters is inexplicable, and the story clue of "looking for the boss" is completely unclear. The only way to promote the development of the plot is actually to read the material by Cheng Kangxu, then drive to find the person on the material, ask a few words, then "boom, boom," fire a few shots, and then install a bomb when it's finished, "Beng Beng Beng" Blow up a few houses and get it done. It's time to kill, but the audience doesn't know who killed it. They only know: Oh, kill another one.
From the perspective of characters, Stallone, as the male number one, can't see the slightest character. Although the setting is a killer, Stallone obviously does not have the coldness of Jean Leno, and it is easy for people to think that Blue Wave has crossed over. All in all, this role is just Stallone, and here I have to make me sweat the acting skills of the big guys. Despite this, the only thing worth sighing about this movie for me, Stallone’s brain fan, is the sorrow of the hero’s twilight revealed by Stallone: As Kang saw the beautiful heroine, it’s pretty good to say lewdly, Stallone’s face Expressionlessly said: That is my daughter. Once upon a time, the beautiful heroines were his confidantes, but now the beauty is still the same, and the hero is old. Even the beauty has become a daughter.
As the second male character of the story, Cheng Kang obviously did not take on the tasks of Nicholas Tse and Daniel Wu in "New Police Story". First of all, he is not handsome enough, and secondly, the director did not give him a memorable part at all. In the film, in addition to saving the protagonist's life in the last cliché, he actually only acts as a "Baidu", babbling about Stallone's information. His police identity is even more inexplicable, except for roaring at Stallone: "Why did you kill again?", there is no sense of existence. The story itself wants to be expressed as a contradiction in Kang's heart as a policeman, but this feeling does not show anything at all. I have to say that I have remembered something, it is the director's so-called painstaking effort, seven or eight lines, five or six shots: Cheng Kang accidentally saw the nude of the heroine. That set of shots, Cheng Kang's stupid performance was shocking. If the director arranges a few more scenes of this kind, and even develops further, I'm sure the box office will be much better than the status quo.
No matter whether Stallone or Chengkang can change the whole film, it is a failure. The strange thing is that Stallone actually said, "If possible, I hope the plot and lines in my work are as exciting as the action". I really sweated deeply for him, and then answered him, it is impossible. More than the plot and the lines, your actions are not exciting enough, only a few self-deprecating lines support the connotation, only a few "bengbengbeng" explosions support the picture, and more sadly, only a few beautiful heroines show the carcass Can swell the audience's blood.
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