I have to say that "Customs Front" is so good! The big scenes of burning and exploding, customs themes, transnational smuggling, explosions, chases, shootouts, naval battles and many wonderful elements of ghosts make this summer action blockbuster highly anticipated. Directed by Qiu Litao, with a special performance by Wu Zhenyu, Jacky Cheung and Nicholas Tse collaborated again after 12 years after "Love in the City", which also made this movie unstoppable.
This film is also the return of the singer Jacky Cheung to the big screen after eight years, and won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 8th Hong Kong Film Awards for playing the role of Wu Rope in "Mong Kok Carmen" directed by Wong Kar-wai.
Talking about this cooperation, Jacky Cheung also said with great emotion: I am very grateful that they asked me to film, because I haven't filmed for too long, and I am afraid of dragging down other actors. I have to say that Jacky Cheung is really dedicated, when the crew was still preparing, he came to the set with his schoolbag to familiarize himself with the plot. Before the opponent actor came, he immersed himself in the air by himself, even if he had already memorized the lines, he was still practicing before the filming of the rival scene began. In order not to "drag" other actors, he pays silently like this every day.
Jacky Cheung plays his boss Zhang Yunnan in the film, and is the boss of customs investigator Zhou Zhengli played by Nicholas Tse, and the relationship between the two can be described as teachers and friends. Jacky Cheung's acting skills in the film are quite explosive, and the double-layered pressure of life and workplace experienced by high-functioning depressed patients, and the inner pain and struggle are well interpreted, especially in daily life when switching between calm and crazy at will, no wonder netizens lamented that Jacky Cheung is really acting a god.
At the shooting scene, in order to achieve a realistic effect, Jacky Cheung locked himself in the room for several hours, reshooting repeatedly, and refused to end until he really reached the moment of "collapse". Nicholas Tse revealed that in order to play this role well, Brother Xueyou has a real reference to his own past experience, and he has really experienced suffocation and difficulty breathing, so the performance is very real and touching.
In this film, Jacky Cheung once again became a god with his powerful acting skills, and the theme song he sang brought the audience infinite surprises when they left, and also gave the movie a big score, so that the audience's sense of departure was instantly full, so that they could cry!
Nicholas Tse's first time as an action director is also a highlight of the film. The action design of the film is smooth, with thrilling hand-to-hand combat on the rubber boat at the beginning, thrilling jumps of helicopter lifting high-altitude fights, machine gun strafing, thrilling shootouts on speed drag racing, and desperate fights in the water, etc., which make the audience addicted. After watching it, some viewers said, "Nicholas Tse's action movie is fist-to-flesh, burning enough to blow up, and it is the most positive action blockbuster."
It is worth mentioning that Nicholas Tse, as the action director of the film, insists on the action to be real, requiring the fighting scenes to be "no post-production" and the blasting scenes to be "no special effects". Nicholas Tse said bluntly, "This is the essence of Chinese action movies going global."
When filming an explosion scene less than one meter away from the explosion point, the avant-garde Shiya was very scared when filming started, and squatted on the ground alone to adjust her state. Nicholas Tse immediately stopped filming when he saw it, walked over to comfort her, and turned around and fell to the ground to demonstrate, pointing out the exact location of the fall so as not to be injured by the explosion, and told her to protect her head while half-covering her face. Such carefully crafted realistic action details and careful care of the actors also made the excitement of this movie move every audience.
Nicholas served as an action director for the first time, and tried his best to shoot an action blockbuster, Jacky Cheung, Wu Zhenyu, Huang Jinshen, Yuan Fuhua's old drama bones, Lin Jiaxin, Liu Yase, Guan Zhibin, Mi Xue, Chen Jiale, Wei Shiya and other powerful stars, I believe that "Customs Front" will become a dark horse in the summer file!