Let me say a couple of digressions, which is an introduction. It’s not easy to live in Germany to watch English soundtrack movies. Yesterday I went to the Cinemaxx theater in the city center to watch the Sneak Preview every Tuesday (that is, you can watch new English soundtrack movies at a low price. Usually, the German translation of Hollywood movies will be officially released in the next few weeks. But before the movie was played, I didn’t know what movie it was showing today). In view of the last time I watched a super ugly low-cost action movie, this time I have been worried about seeing bad movies. Unexpectedly, the theater is full of seats, and there are a lot of employees in the theater around them. They all came here because they knew what to put today. Sure enough, it's worth it! Personally, I prefer boring movies. Drag racing, fights, and gun battles are usually not my thing. I dislike heroic dramas where men take the lead and women are the foil. I didn't expect that I would still be a fan of two big guys who are silly and handsome all the way. Simply put, it is an action comedy suitable for couples holding popcorn and laughing together. Five-star recommendation.
Recommended reason one: The rival dramas of three powerful men
didn’t know much about Ryan Reynolds before watching the movie (I didn’t watch "Deadpool" because I didn’t like mouth shots). I just thought that handsome guys looked familiar, and I asked the guys if they were blind. Is this person Gosling? I was told that Ryan is not Ryan (ashamed to cover his face...) To tell the truth, the beginning of the wedge paragraph looked a bit awkward, and I was drumming "Big brother acting skills can't do it", but a few minutes later, the style of painting Turns, Ryan Reynolds's slumped face is indeed a performance of the inner beauty of mourning! Along the way, the black boss played by Samuel Jackson was ridiculed to madness and roared with anger, and the sense of powerlessness of "talent meets soldiers" was also just right. Although it is not a deep stage of analyzing oneself in life and death, it can also be regarded as a real and funny act of mourning and helplessness of a normal person.
Needless to say, the heavyweight cast of Samuel Jackson, it is worth the fare to be able to see the old Hollywood guns on the big screen with ease. What the uncle is really acting, from head to toe to voice to eyes are all scenes. I remember the murderous explosive head in "Pulp Fiction", his eyes stunned me when I was young, and the brutal force really wasn't covered. This time it was still playing steadily, without showing any traces, and transformed into a black boss who was both righteous and evil. Watching his performance makes people forget that he is an actor and think he is that person. When he said "When God gives you shit, you make cool-aid" with joy, you think he is the man who has experienced cruelty, hatred, and poverty and finally relied on his own values to become an "unkillable man" That black boy of
Another impressive big cast is Gary Oldman. After watching this play, I feel that the Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor is already beckoning him. Although the villain of the dictator he played is not much, he is very brilliant. The momentum of shooting the poor and threatening and intimidating the poor at the beginning is reminiscent of the perverted policeman in "This Killer Isn't Too Cold" (the scene where he dances is among the top ten most memorable movie shots). But what is even more exciting is the runaway in the court at the end. When he was filled with righteous indignation and excitement to the point of slurring his speech, the cult leader's obsession and belief in self-power made people chill behind his back. In the end, the scene where the two laughed at each other during the confrontation with the black boss was so wonderful that it made people want to shoot the thigh.
Recommended reason two: The girl who
is beautiful and not a vase is really beautiful, and it is the kind of capable, witty, and skillful beauty, without a trace of silly whiteness. The actress's play was clean and tidy, her costume, makeup and hair all conformed to the identity of Interpol, and there was no strange scene of running and killing the enemy wearing stiletto heels. The female number two, the wife of the black boss, is definitely another highlight of the film. As soon as she appeared in the theater, there was constant laughter. Seeing her calmly scolding swear words with a strong accent, I thought of a sentence: "I'm not a family, don't enter a family!" Although the design and performance of this character are somewhat Exaggerated, but echoing the highly stylized part of the film about love, instead of feeling out of play.
What I like very much is that the women in this film are not misfortunes, vixens, seductive tools, nor a rose that embellishes the charm of men, but they really have a sense of existence. The role of the two heroines in the play is indeed not too much, and the explanations about their life experience or background are also very simple, and they are all elicited through the two heroes' narration. And in this process of explanation, there is no shortage of naked male perspective subjective shots. However, although there have also been subjective shots staring at certain parts, this shot is designed to be a coincidence in a fight and ranks behind a series of admiring subjective shots. In other words, the two important male-perspective subjective shots in the play fully show the charm of the two heroines "big women" and the charm at work, basically without obvious objectification and peeping into the female body.
In addition to the women of the two male protagonists, there are also other women repeatedly appearing in the play: the female Interpol boss, the female judge of the International Court of Justice, and a series of supporting roles such as female lawyers, policewomen, waitresses, and so on. They are all normal one by one, like normal people wearing clothing that suits the occupation and the occasion and working normally, performing their duties. Based on this alone, I think it's much better than the super-seven and eight-speed eight kind of glamorous female partners who are driving and driving, because there are many real women in this men's drama, just like in real life.
Recommended reason three: a love scene that does not sprinkle dog blood and specializes in dog food
The two heroines do not have many roles, in fact they should be called the main supporting actress. The significance of the existence of these two characters is not to shape the two characters themselves, but to shape two loves and to complete the profile portrayal of the two male protagonists. It can be said that the few love scenes are interspersed with chase, gunfight, and fighting scenes, without disrupting the overall rhythm of the film, without interrupting the narrative, without a long story, but with a high degree of completion. A good love scene is not about you and me taking turns "looking at the stars, watching the moon, poems and sings the philosophy of life." Romance is not spoken out, it is unspeakable at a glance. For example, in "In the Mood for Love", there are almost no lines, and it's all spoken by the camera. The same is true in this film. Combined with the genre of action comedy, the two love scenes of "acquaintance" are both presented in fighting scenes full of violent aesthetics. There is no dialogue, and it depends on the editing of the camera. The subjective mentioned above The shots are even more amazing. Here you can watch Uncle Samuel’s superb beauty in slow motion. The whole film didn't say a word "I love you", and the only sentence that was ready to come out was pierced by a baggage that burst the audience. There is no tear gas and bloody drama, but it makes people feel romantic. The two love scenes correspond to the character and identity background of the two male protagonists, and present two completely different flavors, but they both make people willingly eat this dog food, and they will have endless aftertastes. The love scene between the black boss and his wife is especially mellow, and the strong nostalgia created through music, background props and color schemes makes people unable to help but think of romance films in the golden age of Hollywood, so the director easily added one. The heart-shaped photo frame ends the whole film, directly making the sense of age.
Recommended reason four: looped original soundtrack
Five minutes after the movie started, people couldn't help but shake their legs from a gunfight scene of street firefighting. The background music was really amazing. The director probably turned his own private playlist all over. The first one is really nice and matches the plot just right. The music rhythm of the action part matches the actor's body movements and the director's scene scheduling. It feels as enjoyable as watching MJ's MV. Especially when the black boss saves people, the soundtrack burns to an explosion. I searched for it. This song is called "New Noise". It comes from the album "The shape of punk to come" released by the Swedish hardcore rock band Refused in 1998. The momentum is definitely not inferior to the zombie guitar brother in "Mad Max". . In addition, the ending song "Dancing in the moonlight" is a masterpiece from the rock band King Harvest in the 70s. Rock&roll, which is full of age, is also too romantic. When you are tender, happy, and romantic, in addition to the soundtrack, there is also the voice of Uncle Samuel, who is able to sing. I am really satisfied to hear from the beginning to the end (now I am writing and looping the list of movie soundtracks). I feel that the Oscar's nominations for best sound effects and best editing are already beckoning to the film.
Recommended reason 5: Actions and comedies are all enough.
After watching, I feel that this film is really suitable for couples to watch popcorn together. There is love, action, and jokes. Boys can not only live the addiction of action dramas, don’t worry. The girlfriend feels bored, and there is no need to prepare a tissue and comforting lines for his girlfriend. It is very suitable for young couples to make a happy meeting together without making or making trouble. It’s true to laugh from start to finish, and the jokes are full of sincerity, no jokes, relying on the contrast of the character's personality, the excellent performance of the actors and the unexpected plot design. One of the best scenes is Ryan Reynolds sitting in a corner of the square drinking and complaining, and the whole square behind is a pot of porridge. The contrast of comedy is hilarious, but the funeral of the characters is real and does not feel inconsistent at all. Regarding this scene, there is an easter egg at the end of the film's subtitles, so don't miss it.
I don't understand part of the action scene very much, but I feel like it's flowing and flowing, and I don't have the feeling of dizziness and no knowing who hit whom. Coupled with the rhythm of music and appropriate violent aesthetics, it feels unisex. At the beginning of the film, there was a flashing name in the main creator list indicating that it was from Hong Kong. I don't know if it's Wuzhi if it's a layman's guess. But the overall action style is very good, it is a combination of rigidity and softness, a bit of a mix and match between Jackie Chan and Wu Yusen.
The above is all my humble opinion. It may be a bit too eccentric to score five stars, but it's worth the smile that I have been the most happy in the cinema for the past six months!
Attached
movie soundtrack
playlist : 1. "Nobody gets out live", by Samuel L. Jackson
2. "Hello", by Lionel Richie
3. "Hitman's bodyguard", by Atli Örvarsson
4. "Ships on the ocean", by Junior Wells
5. "Smells like ass back here", by Atli Örvarsson
6. "Jag didn't smell like ass", by Atli Örvarsson
7. "I want to know what love is", by Foreigner
8. "Amsterdam Chase", by Dmitri Golovko
9. "Black Betty", by Spiderbait
10. "Little Queenie",
12. "Kincaid's gospel", by Atli Örvarsson
13. "Dukovich", by Atli Örvarsson
14. "Broken wing", by Atli Örvarsson
15. "Dancing in the Moonlight", by King Harvest
movie episode list:
1. "I will always love you", by Whitney Houston
2. "All that she wants", by Ace of Base
3. "Hello", by Lionel Richie
4. "Sittin' and cryin' the blues", by Memphis Slim
5. "Ain' t no love in the heart of the city", by Bobby "Blue" Bland
6. "Ships on the ocean", by Junior Wells
7. "Just because", by Lloyd Price
8. "New noise", by Refused
9. "I want to know what love is", by Foreigner
10. "Let's have a party", by Mike Shepstone, Sergio Guiomar
11. "Little Queenie", by Chuck Berry
12. "Dancing in the moonlight", by King Harvest
13. "Nobody gets out alive", by Samuel L. Jackson
13. "Easy", by Commodores
14. "Sweet dreams (are made of this)", by Eurythmics
15 . "You make my dreams", by Daryl Hall & John Oates
16. "Don't dream it's over", by Crowded House
17. "Boom boom", by John Lee Hooker
18. "Take my breath away (as heard in top gun)", by Berlin
19. "Heaven", by Bryan Adams
20. "The lady in red", by Chris de Burgh
21. "My babe", by Little Walter
22. "Total eclipse of the heart", by Bonnie Tyler
23. "Say you, say me", by Lionel Richie
24. "I'm a man", by Bo Diddley
25. "My heart belongs to you", by Peabo Bryson
26. "Are you ready, to make love to the music", by Matell
27. "Bevilo Tutto"
(The playlist information is sorted and moved from Spotify's playlist. If there is any error, please understand, and you are welcome to correct it~)
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