Being fooled by the "big name"

Dereck 2022-03-22 09:02:46

The stereotyped themes and the lack of novelty in the plot are destined to not be too attractive. Just relying on a powerful name, a gimmick of an English film, plus one blockbuster after another, to fool the audience into the cinema, maybe it can still end up with a good box office. insidious.
Chinese, Japanese, Americans, Germans, there are too many characters. In less than 2 hours, it is really too hasty to explain the relationship between the characters, tell the background of the story, create and intensify the contradiction. The identity of Gong Li, the underground party who avenged his father, has never been clear; the American was only trying to find the murderer of his friend from beginning to end, but after finding it, he failed to get revenge, and was finally let his life by the enemy; Chow Yun-fat at the climax of the film Part of it reproduces the style of "Little Horse", and he is still very suitable for the environment of old Shanghai.
After watching the whole film, I just feel distressed for Shanghai where the hatred of the country and the family is intertwined.

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  • Paul Soames: The heart is never neutral.

  • Paul Soames: Conner and I had joined the Navy like our fathers and grandfathers before us. Our lives were set. Birth, school, Yale, war. The great American tradition.