Not only is it 100% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes!
It won three consecutive championships at the domestic box office in South Korea!
With its high appeal, it has also become the film that represents Korean films competing for the nomination of the best foreign language film at the 89th Academy Awards.
The 52-year-old director Kim Ji-woon is a veteran. His last film was his Hollywood debut, "The Last Stand," a crime action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
This time in "Spy" is also Jin Zhiyun's usual action drama style, delicate and sharp.
From this point of view, the word of mouth of the film should be steady and steady, not to mention the enabled golden cast team, which simply blinded the dog's eyes of box office appeal.
Gong Yoo, who was promoted to the "Ten Thousand" actor with "Train to Busan", needless to say, just with a pair of long legs, this film is a must!
With his opponent's Uncle Bing Song Kanghao, the real actor of Chung Wu Road, it can be said that Uncle Bing made a move, and there are many good films!
Let's take a look again, you can kill two movie stars with soy sauce:
Korean acting actor - Lee Byung Hun, as a movie dog, he is really kneeling. When Uncle Byung Hun makes a play, in addition to being handsome, he brings his own Domineering big brother Fan Er's BGM!
In this film, it is also logical to make a cameo appearance as the ultimate BOSS of the anti-Japanese organization Boxer Regiment.
The so-called three generals in one play should also be the top acting drama. Unexpectedly, there is also a young but powerful actor - Xu Yingzhu.
The little brother is not only handsome, but also an authentic 98-year-old young meat. In 2012, he won the best actor at the Tokyo Film Festival with "Crime Boy".
But I don't know if it's an old Chinese saying "one monk carries water to eat, two monks carry water to eat, three monks have no water to eat", not to mention that there are four "monks" here.
Therefore, the strong effect that should have appeared unexpectedly occurred in my great heaven!
The reason is not because the actors did not act well, but because they acted so well, so the short board in the plot became the fatal blow of the film, and netizens complained one after another-Key words: protracted plot, lengthy, plot Flat, reversal is not enough!
As far as sister Piao is concerned, the comments of netizens are indeed more pertinent. In the celestial dynasty where the theme of the Anti-Japanese War is blooming everywhere, to say the aesthetic level of this spy war film has long been raised by a series of excellent film and television works such as "Hidden". .
The stalks of Infernal Affairs and Mission: Impossible have already been played. If you want to say that this is a good performance, you can't guess who is who until the last second. Uncle cake.
There is no need for a screenwriter to set up a Flag, a pair of eyes with a story, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a "Korean traitor".
In addition, the process of being instigated was very smooth, and the people who killed melon-eaters thought there was some big suspense behind it, but it turned out that it was really just that simple...
Uh, I won't say anything, Sister Piao will do it for you A brief introduction to the plot-in
response to the recent wave of a series of "Japanese-ruled Korea" background films such as "Assassination", "Miss" and "Dehui Wengzhu".
"Spy" is also based on the background of the 1920s, based on the bombing of Huang Yu's police headquarters in the capital of North Korea in 1923.
It is about the deadly battle between the anti-Japanese organization, the Boxer Regiment, represented by Kim Yoo Jin (played by Gong Yoo), in order to bomb the Japanese governor's palace and transport bombs from Shanghai, China to the capital of North Korea, and the Japanese police who hunted them down.
The battle is made more complicated and dangerous by the "spies" of the opposing sides planted in each other's camps.
Among them, Li Zhengchu (played by Song Kanghao), the head of the Japanese army police station, should be an old scheming and good at disguising according to the usual routine.
Facts have proved that there are indeed two brushes, not only dug out the boxer's nest, but also disguised as a seller and brought antiques to get in touch with Jin Yujin, a member of the Boxer.
However, due to the origin of the Korean blood, it is difficult to receive the attention of the superiors, and the "colleagues" sent by the superiors to supervise cut off the hustle and bustle.
So Li Zhengchu, who was frustrated in the workplace, was invited to drink a "barrel" of small wine by the head of the Yilie regiment. He was quite meaningful but did not say a word for a month of fishing, and successfully turned his back.
Well, when you have a confused face and jump ship without feeling any benefit, people really start to work for "patriotism".
It's a pity that, compared to our Communist Party, the Boxer Regiment has the "weak chicken" flavor of a grass-top team. Not only were they wiped out in minutes, they didn't even know what "camouflage" was when they were assigned a mission.
She is obviously the heroine who is supposed to shoulder emotional drama and beauty, not only because she loves "selfie" to reveal her identity.
The red color and the "Little Red Riding Hood" who were afraid that others would not be able to see it, were caught off the assembly line in minutes and received a lunch box, which did not play any role in the plot.
In fact, when Li Zhengchu and Jin Youjin were arrested, the film should have ended, but looking at the still firm progress bar, Sister Piao expressed her conviction, and then followed a series of high-energy plays:
soldering iron, vise, leather whip. .....
It seems that the eighteenth torture of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is not worth the name of the anti-Japanese drama!
The plot is generally quite satisfactory and simple, and those who want to see the suspense of Infernal Affairs can only be said to be disappointed.
But overall, this film, with the solid acting skills of the lead actors, is still a good film.
Uncle Bing's acting skills are all online, and the inner drama of the struggle between patriotism and identity is full and perfect. The human nature is very real, and it will not be like some divine dramas. The protagonist comes up with a halo.
Kong Yoo's sage feelings are also well-acted, and finally the scene where he lies down curled up in a small cluster of sunlight in the prison is fixed in the hearts of countless passionate people.
He inscribed on the wall:
However, to talk about this bland plot, it is estimated that Chong Ao is not expected. After all, compared with last year's South Korean Chong Ao film "Si Mourning", "Spy" has a lot less depth and breadth in addition to simple heroism.
To say that with such a group of actors and such a historical background that still has room for creation, what we can see is a better Korean film, we can only say that we hope that next time, we can see a more profound craftsmanship!
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