Director Michael Bay, who made "Pearl Harbor" and "Transformers", starred Nicolas Cage (Cage before he was the king of bad movies), Sean Connery, put these names in the same movie Here, just think about how wonderful it is.
The 1990s was the golden age of film stunts advancing by leaps and bounds, not to mention the entire United States at that time, just in Hollywood, there were countless action films flooding the global film market. In reality, most of them are constantly refilling old wine with the same cookie-cutter routine of kidnapping, negotiating, bombing, gunfights, road chases, personal heroism, happy endings. I don't know if people at that time were tired of such a plot mode. Almost every action movie is inseparable from such a way. But since it is an action film, the audience must be attracted by the thrilling stunt scenes in the film, and the requirements for the plot are naturally relatively low. All the audience needs is to see the bills that they smashed at the box office and see the water splashing high, so as to satisfy their audio-visual pleasure and that's it. Because of this, countless low-nutrition stunt films were born in the film market at that time, and this phenomenon gradually formed the "fast food culture" that exists in the film industry to this day.
And this film was born in this crazy era, but when it stood out from countless shoddy action films with a plot that subverted black and white, everyone was conquered by the film's near-perfect quality. Even if the film is now, it is not inferior to any major film made today. Even in the "Call of Duty" series, which enjoys the title of king in FPS games today, there is a bathroom scene in the film, which pays homage to the film.
I personally think that there are many bright spots that can make this film famous in history, including of course Michael Bay's superb guidance skills, Cage's huge celebrity effect with his own box office black hole, and the high budget that blew up most of San Francisco. But these are not the most important, the film that left the deepest impact on me is the motive of the villain in the film, to become evil for the sake of justice, and when the righteous side of the film is going to do what seems to be "justice", it is also Had to use evil means. Never before in a movie I've seen has the line between morality and black and white been so blurred as this one. Intentionally or unintentionally, the film gives the audience a classic legal or philosophical discussion, that is, when faced with a trade-off of interests, whether to sacrifice the minority to satisfy the interests of the majority, or sacrifice the interests to achieve fairness for all . It's easy to confuse moral boundaries in the debate over what is right and what is wrong, and the film provides answers that everyone wants to see. But in reality, we still can't get the final answer.
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