From the perspective of viewing experience alone, from the beginning to the end, the plot is very tight, but the rhythm is slow and urgent. To put it simply, it always attracts me to watch, and a phone call feels disturbing, and I will keep watching it and will not discard it in the middle. However, although the plot is attractive and the conflict is fierce, but It doesn't make people stay in a very nervous state of mind all the time, and occasionally makes people relax a little bit.
Regarding the actor's acting skills, I had a foreboding that he was going to be cannon fodder soon after Nate came on stage, so he didn't feel much when he was killed, but I shed tears when I saw Danny's performance at the funeral. The policeman who has been chained to the railing has several close-ups, without any lines, showing his surprise from ignorance of the incident to the moment he heard it. From the beginning he was ordered to capture Danny and then he held it. Danny's hand. Spean's performance is particularly individual, for example, he asked the criminology expert to deceive Danny, but his speechless and helpless expression after the expert was seen through by Danny, and so on.
Watching this drama, especially when seeing Danny and Spinn join hands in the later period, occasionally reminds me of Juan Fu and Watson. Of course, they are not the same. Danny and Spinn are rivals, and Juan Fu and Hua Birth is more of a kind of complementarity. Anyway, the duel between the two heroes was very exciting. From the first phone call to the back, Danny seemed to be led by Spinn at the beginning, and then turned passively into the initiative. In short, two people got off the hook, broke the game, and kept reversing. It was really wonderful.
Regarding the characters, in addition to the two leading actors, the other boy who was taken as a hostage is also very characteristic. He was a bastard. He was caught by Danny. He was the first to favor Danny and helped him crack the computer system. The most important thing is that they were obviously being released at the time. It was he who found the information of the crime expert and helped Danny break Spinn's lie. I also went back and looked at it again. He did find out first. It was obvious that Danny had already planned to believe in Spinn and let the hostages go. In addition, after being rescued by the police, he insisted on not telling the police Danny's whereabouts.
In stark contrast to this little brother is the female assistant. At first, she was upset about other people's concerns about her gender, and claimed that she did not like this kind of sexism. Then I quickly told Danny that if he wanted to know more information, he needed to turn on the computer, and also told Danny the user name and password of the computer. Among all the hostages, her treatment is the best, and it can be seen from this that Danny is still a relatively gentleman, and has a protective psychology for the hostages, which can be seen from beginning to end. Back to this female assistant, when Danny was about to give up, she even mentioned that she needed to go to Nibon’s home if she wanted more information. This helped Danny a lot. At least he didn’t give up at that time. . However, after being rescued by the police, the assistant told the police where Danny was going next. This was a surprise to me at first, but after thinking about it, it was easy for her to betray her boss who had been with Danny for 5/6 years, so it seemed understandable to betray Danny.
If the whole movie is watched in a movie theater, it is definitely impossible to understand it right away. I sometimes read it back and watch it a few times before I can basically understand it. But the ending is a bit strange, because this incident appeared to involve many people from the beginning, but in the end it was only one person? And as for the other people, who killed Nate and who else was an accomplice is not well expressed.
Another problem is that I don’t know much about the managers of all aspects of the entire police station. In short, in the end, I didn’t clarify who the commanders were and what their names were. At this point, I am confused.
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