Failed work

Karlie 2021-12-31 08:02:38

First of all, Lao Bu didn't break out of the fixed pattern. He still played an ordinary agent who was underestimated. At the beginning of the film, the "integrity" of the late agent was described, and his "sentiment" was appropriately revealed, which is Lao Bu's signature image.
As an action movie, there are too few "movement" elements, and a small number of chase scenes and a fight scene in the last 5 minutes make it difficult to classify it as a drama. The "love" drama in the Brinell film always ends when it comes to the end, and this film is the same, the interactive dramas of children and actresses are not much played. At the end of the film, I have seen a lot of "hugs" and it is not very good. It is just that the little boy looks very tired and feels very uncomfortable for him.
Besides, the reason why the little boy was hunted down was to expose the old bottom of the National Security Bureau. It is hard to imagine that the powerful US National Security Agency can only rely on pediatric methods such as killing people. Moreover, the National Security Agency is described as weak and is not Lao Bu's rival at all. The director tried his best to describe the National Security Bureau as a weird "evil" organization with high-level idiots, stupid thugs, and subordinates and programmers that "win the weak". Many people who like "Guoan spy movies" are "disappointed." It can be said that there is no suspense in the play, and it is "easy" and easy to make "righteous" overcome "evil".
Let’s talk about the film’s director who seems to be good at directing political films. He has not directed action films very much, which may have caused the film’s slow delay in the first 90 minutes and rush and boredom in the last 30 minutes.
There is also a suspenseful atmosphere created by the opening captions of the play. The title is also called "Mercury Code War", but in fact "Mercury Code" was easily cracked by the little boy from the beginning, and it was not mentioned later. This method of first tantalizing the audience's appetite is too shameless.

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Mercury Rising quotes

  • Lomax: [to Jeffries] Sometimes you got something... just magic, and then it goes away. You had it, but the magic's gone.

  • Nick Kudrow: You know what I think, Mr. Jeffries? I think you've seen too many of those four wheel drive commercials on TV.

    [Art laughs and claps his hands]

    Nick Kudrow: The ones where you get to drive fast and be a renegade? Let's talk about the real world for a moment, shall we, where you're not some wonderful, lone wolf hero, but you're part of a team, and you play your position, because that's what America is, Mr. Jeffries. It's one big team. Now this might be difficult for you to grasp, but I am a patriot. And a patriot is one who makes the right moral choice. Sometimes it takes a strong man to make that choice. One boy cannot survive on his own. One of nature's mistakes weighed against the lives of thousands of our people. Think about it. You worked undercover. How many of our agents will be put in harm's way if this code is compromised? Members of your team. Men like Rashid Halabi, an Iraqi-American, and a great patriot. A man who as we speak is undercover in Saddam's Republican Guard. A man who has not seen his family...

    [Art kicks him in the stomach]

    Art Jeffries: That's for Simon's parents, you piece of shit!