Ten minutes into the opening, I still felt disorganized, with many characters appearing one after another, and the dialogue was also repeated with terminology, which made my head hurt. The classic scene of collecting huge sums of money in five days appeared, and then it slowly entered the state.
It's a familiar trick, but for an old movie from 1998, it's not easy to think that a young Guy Ritchie a few years ago could come up with such a classic style.
"Lola Run" was once the best interpreter of this model in the 20th century, and in this slightly young director's work, there is a moving fresh power, flashing everywhere Surprise happy details.
First of all, compared with "Crazy Stone", this film is better in the layout of the script and the design of details, and it also carries out the dark humor story more thoroughly.
On the surface, the focus of the story is on the four unfortunate children who make big bets and carry heavy money, and distribute the strength evenly to other interlocking characters. A gang of young people who grow drugs and a super-sexy black leader, a gang of gangsters who rob drugs, a Harley gang who designed to trap 4 unlucky children and their gangsters, and ordered to steal antique bongs and finally accidentally sold them to Two idiot thieves for hapless kids...
The whole story opens with a great gamble. Before that, Eddie's so-called magical gambling skills and the not noble social background of the four young people were very patiently paving the way, as well as the terrible strength of the boss Ha Li they were about to face. Due to the fast pace, the story before the game seemed a little scattered, until Eddie came out of the casino in a daze, carrying a huge amount of debt, only a week later, the story began to embark on a very interesting development track.
Halfway through reading it, I still felt that it was similar to "Crazy Stone", except that the thief who was ordered to steal the gun at the end accidentally killed the employer by mistake. It is indeed the original of "Big Smoking Gun". In addition, the final freeze-frame design gave us a very clever way of handling the conjectures of different endings, and the level of one trick is high.
Guy Ritchie wrote and directed his debut, deftly using a dozen nostalgic pop songs. The lyrics make great lines. Xiao Kun, who was in the same period as him, also learned this fashion rule very well, and played yuppie music in Pulp Fiction.
What's interesting is that the eight gangs with different interests are all male, and the only woman in the film doesn't even have a line, but inexplicably plays a machine gun. I don't know if it was the director's intentional design.
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