Liam Neeson, an old Irish man with a height of 1.93, blew a gentleman's style with elegance before the age of 50, swaying the souls of countless people. In "Schindler's List", he has a fascinating charm, and the gentleness of one woman after another who lingers on him, she should be willing to spare a tire, and just want to have a spring night with him.
After 50 years old, Liam Neeson was suddenly stimulated with another potential, and the Irish blood in his body began to agitate. Liam Neeson, who opened the two lines of Ren Du, killed his daughter in "Hurricane Rescue" (Taken) . The fans suddenly realized that even M Neeson was so happy to beat someone. Subsequently, two sequels were released in a row. The three films caused a frenzy of middle-aged uncles around the world, and they won a staggering $900 million in box office. Throughout the series, in order to rescue relatives, the uncle killed more than 200 people in the film.
Subsequently, Uncle Liam successively completed the "sea, land and air" all-weather rescue in action movies such as "Air Rescue", "Commuter Rescue", and "Tianlong Special Forces", burning the middle-aged man's hormones to the extreme.
Uncle Liam, who hasn't beaten people for a year, recently reappeared in the new film "Cold Pursuit" .
Movie fans took a look at the introduction, revenge for the son, gang killings, and snow gun battles. It is estimated that Uncle Liam must have developed a new way and place to join people, and the clean white snow and the bright red blood must match quite well. Fans and Fat Brother quickly entered the pit with the same movie-watching expectations. Half of the time, they found that the director did not follow the routine. After a slap, he was dizzy and found that Uncle Liam could still play violent black humor.
"Cold Blood Pursuit" is actually adapted from another film "The Order of the Missing" by Norwegian director Hans Peter Moran .
The film’s unique Nordic violence and regional culture , as well as the black humor from time to time in the film, are fresh in my memory. However, the film is extremely small, and not many people have watched it. This leaves a certain amount of viewing space for "Cold Blood Pursuit". From style to story, "Cold Blood Pursuit" is almost the American landing version of "The Order of the Missing". The regional space was moved to a snowy town in the United States, the male protagonist was replaced by Uncle Liam, the core gang fires, and the city used drugs to erode the town and other elements. The background was directly grafted and used, and the Nordic violent aesthetics bloomed in Hollywood. .
In all fairness, works by the same director and with highly similar story divisions, "Cold Blood Pursuit" is more refined than "The Order of the Missing" , with traces of Hollywood construction everywhere, but at the same time it also loses the roughness of "The Order of the Missing" Feeling bitter. Movie fans are asking for what they want, and choosing to watch one of the two films, both can get a good "anti-genre" experience. In "Cold Pursuit", Uncle Liam plays an ordinary snowplow driver Niels Coxman. Only won the Township Person of the Year Award, but accidentally learned that his son had died of drug overdose.
His life was ups and downs, and his middle-aged lost his son, leaving his family torn apart. When he almost chose to commit suicide at home when his life bottomed out, he suddenly learned that his son's death turned out to be strange. He followed the vine, hoping to catch the black hand behind the scenes step by step, and get revenge.
According to this routine, the drama of "Hurricane Rescue" seems to be unable to suppress the fire, but the director turns to the winger, constantly breaking the narrative routine, and allowing accidental reversal to replace the expansion of personal heroism. Relying on his "clean" identity and harmless appearance, Coxman killed several small drug dealers in an unattractive manner, but he was "close to the sky" from the gang leader. Knowing the name of the other party, he would never be able to reach it. other side. However, the successive disappearances of drug dealers aroused suspicion among the leaders of the "Viking Gang", who felt that it was their long-standing enemy Indian gang declaring war.
So the Viking Gang warned of killing the son of the Indian gang leader. This provocation tore up the multi-year "peace agreement" between the two gangs. The leader of the Indian gang decided to “return a tooth for a tooth” and was bound to kill the opposing leader’s son for revenge.
In this way, the unknown junior Coxman triggered a century-old merger between two local gangs and drug organizations. At the climax, the two sides fought, and Coxman staged a wonderful "Oriental Behind", a series of accidental advancement stories, leading the ending to a surprise ending that was jaw-dropping and hilarious.
According to the film's development model, the protagonist Coxman actually gradually retreated "behind the scenes" in the second half, and two gangsters with strong personalities emerged. A seemingly tough, but in fact cowardly and unreasonable, hesitant to deal with things, sometimes not as good as his Indian ex-wife;
On the other side are real tough old-fashioned guys who seem to be abandoned by the times and out of place in the modern environment, but the decisive style of the Indians makes the characters full of unique charm. The three father-son relationships also have a wonderful overlap. Coxman kidnapped the youngest son of the Viking gang boss, and finally cherished the Indian gang boss.
Unpredictable chemical reactions occur in the relationship between the characters, and the story is "rampaging" in the reversal. This anti-routine narrative method is indeed surprising. In addition, the most obvious feature of "Cold-Blooded Pursuit" is the comedy element that is constantly inserted in the violence . For example, the boss of the Viking Gang, as a drug dealer, has formulated a strict nutritious meal for his youngest son. In the eyes of others, this is more dehumanizing than drugs. He advocates violence, but his son is gentle and gentle, likes classical music from masters, and regards violence as a show of childish play and impulse.
The film even ridiculed the American-style "political correctness". A group of Indian gangsters went to the hotel, did not rely on violence, did not spill US dollars, did not swear, and only relied on their ethnic minority status to threaten the lobby manager to "write negative reviews" on the Internet to obtain the qualification for VIP accommodation.
This kind of "contrast" jokes between roles and behaviors fill the whole film, which relaxes the film's rhythm and atmosphere, and at the same time enriches the character level of the characters, and integrates the Nordic black humor into the American context. Before watching the film, discard your own stereotypes. When watching the film, keep the "empty feeling" of accepting everything, and I believe you can get a new and wonderful movie-watching experience from it.
Uncle Liam, who has completed the "sea, land, and air" rescue, has also jumped out of the existing genre comfort zone, let us see his cold and humorous side, the transformation of the middle-aged action star, is it necessary to start from this Nordic drama" Is the trip to melting ice? Let's wait and see!
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