Forcing Liangshan

Arely 2022-04-19 09:01:30

I watched this film at the beginning when I was in college, and it was interrupted because of a temporary incident. Two years later, I came across this film again, so I revisited and continued from midnight at night.
The dark and cold tone runs through almost the whole film, and the killing and revenge are staged in it, which is neat and exciting. On the contrary, the bright colors and the magnificent seascape that burst out at the end were deliberately done, which meant it intentionally. It seems that this film does not make Hanks come on board. It seems that it is enough to arbitrarily pick a middle-aged and powerful male movie star. In such a scenario where the two powerhouses confront each other, the villain is always more brilliant (the perverted killer played by Banderas in "The Last Assassin" is far better than Stallone's one-of-a-kind ace). Jude Law in the film is a breakthrough, but unfortunately there are too few shots to make it happen.
In the same theme of the shooting film, this film is only average.

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  • Maguire: Smile.

  • [last lines]

    Michael Sullivan, Jr.: I saw then that my father's only fear was that his son would follow the same road. And that was the last time I ever held a gun. People always thought I grew up on a farm. And I guess, in a way, I did. But I lived a lifetime before that, in those six weeks on the road in the winter of 1931. When people ask me if Michael Sullivan was a good man, or if there was just no good in him at all, I always give the same answer. I just tell them... he was my father.