Jamie Foxx is back

Dagmar 2022-04-20 09:01:12

Double star lineup, but I deliberately chose this poster with Jamie Foxx as the protagonist because I think he is so much better than Tom! The content of the film may be familiar to many people, so I won't repeat it here. Just looking at the performance, I think Jamie Foxx's level in this film is also worthy of an Oscar statuette.

Let's talk about the superstar of director Michael Mann. The most famous are "The Last of the Mohicans", "Heat" and "The Insider". Absolutely top-notch film director, this eccentric has a well-known quirk of having a 1911 .45 caliber pistol in every film he makes (that's Tom's sidearm in this one!). This film uses the shell of a police and bandit film to explore the issues of ethics and interpersonal alienation through the dialogue between the two. The lights of the dark night market bring out the sense of desertification in the city. The joy of survival is as scarce as water. The words are very bleak (careful): Don't tell others that I am dead, do you remember the boy who died on the subway a while ago? The people who got on and off the bus for 6 hours didn't realize that he was dead. This TMD city is so indifferent.

Ah Tang is lackluster in this film, acting as pale as his deliberately dyed hair. I feel that he is more and more like Andy Lau in the United States, and he is only handsome.

Jamie Foxx, on the other hand, is a brilliant, promising man. The cohesion, naturalness, and explosion of his acting are all beyond the realm of transcendence. Without him, this movie would be much less interesting.

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Extended Reading
  • Phyllis 2022-04-24 07:01:03

    In "Yin and Yang", it is mentioned that this is the first time Michaelman chose to use a digital camera (forgot which one) to shoot a full night scene. But what should I say about the overall effect? ​​There are pros and cons. The aerial imagery of passing through Los Angeles at the beginning is very charming, and the follow-up has a texture that is "not quite like a movie". Of course, the story is still good, and the villain is very attractive even if it is not Cruise alone. Then because it was for the actors to watch, I didn't want the protagonist to win. Ah Tang asked you to die, why don't you die obediently?

  • Aaliyah 2021-10-20 19:01:11

    Great, worthy of being the first case study in "Film Art". The high-definition camera has a unique advantage in the night. McMann filmed the bar scene so superbly. I was choked for the last half an hour. . . This is definitely the pinnacle of Ah Tang's career. He looks so cool and his characters look like vulgar novels. The killer of the literary fan.

Collateral quotes

  • Max: I can't drive you around while you're killing folks. It ain't my job!

    Vincent: Tonight it is.

  • Vincent: Okay, look, here's the deal. Man, you were gonna drive me around tonight, never be the wiser, but El Gordo got in front of a window, did his high dive, we're into Plan B. Still breathing? Now we gotta make the best of it, improvise, adapt to the environment, Darwin, shit happens, I Ching, whatever man, we gotta roll with it.

    Max: I Ching? What are you talking about, man? You threw a man out of a window.

    Vincent: I didn't throw him. He *fell*

    Max: Well what did he do to you?

    Vincent: What?

    Max: What did he do to *you*?

    Vincent: Nothing. I only met him tonight.

    Max: You just met him once and you killed him like that?

    Vincent: What? I should only kill people after I get to know them?