In recent years, there have been more and more examples of Korean films being released in Chinese mainland after they have been remade, but most of them have failed to be remade.
The Korean classic movie "Sunshine Sister Tao" was remade by Bao Bell, making a bad film, "Angry Scalper" was remade brainlessly and reduced to a street-beating network movie, and "Warm Hug" was remade from the Korean movie "Plan Man".
Korean movies will also remake domestic movies, Du Qifeng's "Drug War" has been remade, and recently, another domestic movie has been remade by South Korea and has appeared on the big screen in South Korea.
The new film, called "Hostage", is a remake of "Mr. Rescue Me", which was released in South Korea on August 18, and easily topped the Top of the South Korean Daily Box Office Chart on its first day of release.
"Hostage" is a highly anticipated Korean summer movie, and when it was released, it really lived up to expectations, beating hit movies such as "Mogadishu", "Sinker" and "Runaway Player".
"Rescue Mr. Wu" is a film released in 2015, the work of Ding Sheng, starring Andy Lau, Liu Ye, Wang Qianyuan and others, got 7.7 points on the Douban platform, and the box office revenue was about 190 million yuan. Wang Qianyuan gave a superb performance in this movie, playing a gangster, and his acting skills were greatly praised.
"Hostage" is starred by Huang Zhengmin, Li Haojing, etc., huang Zhengmin starred in the kidnapped star, that is, Andy Lau played by Mr. Wu, crazy acting skills, so that this role has made a breakthrough.
On South Korea's Naver platform, "Hostage" has an audience rating of 8.28 points, a media rating of 6.0 points, and a comprehensive score of 7.9 points, and the word of mouth is at the middle and upper levels.
It can be seen from word of mouth that the new film "Hostage" was successfully remade, and Huang Zhengmin's work is indeed trustworthy.
In order to create a stronger sense of reality, Huang Zhengmin directly starred in the film, called Huang Zhengmin, a famous film emperor with high popularity.
One day, after attending a film screening, Huang Zhengmin was kidnapped and taken to a remote place with no clues and no witnesses. When he was first kidnapped, Huang Zhengmin once thought it was a variety show, but gradually, he found that this was real, not a show, and a tense and exciting escape story unfolded.
Huang Zhengmin's performance in "Hostage" is the biggest attraction, all relying on him, which makes this new film have an extraordinary charm.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that compared with the original work, "Hostage" has added a lot of action scenes, which looks more compact and more enjoyable.
The disadvantage is that it focuses on Huang Zhengmin's self-help, and fails to shoot the scene of the police and bandits fighting wits and courage, resulting in the problem of favoritism over the other in the remake.
As soon as it was released, it exploded at the box office and gained a good reputation, and the new film "Hostage" is worth watching.
In addition to "Hostage", South Korea has also remade a domestic film called "Ghost", remade from the classic spy film "The Sound of the Wind" directed by Chen Guofu and Gao Qunshu, starring Zhou Xun, Li Bingbing, Zhang Hanyu, Huang Xiaoming and other films.
The Korean version of "The Sound of the Wind", starring Xue Jingqiu, Lee Honi, Su Su Dan, Park Hae-so, Kim Dong-hee, etc., is expected to be released in 2022, and this new work is more worth looking forward to.