"Customs Front" is the most suitable high-burning action scene recommended by colleagues of Hunan Qifa Culture this summer, which really makes people adrenaline soar. The plot of the film is a decent Hong Kong film script, which continues the unspoken rules of the human feelings of the male protagonist trapped in the workplace in Director Qiu's creation in recent years, and is out of place with the paranoid personality and resistance extended by the suppression. Nicholas served as an action director for the first time, and he did feel the realism of his action scenes on the big screen, which was very realistic and did not drag the mud and water, combined with Qiu Litao's hot scene transition, he was directly promoted from a police film to a disaster movie.
The film focuses on the theme of customs, Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department seized a cargo ship containing a large number of lethal weapons during a routine maritime patrol, and was bombed and looted by a group of overseas forces during the investigation. In order to find out the truth about smuggling, Zhang Yunnan sent his subordinate Zhou Zhengli and Interpol to go overseas together, tossing and turning around the huge and complicated arms black market......
The film is a standard Hong Kong-style action movie, advancing the story extremely quickly, in addition to the mainland, it also goes to Africa and the Gulf, all accommodated in less than two hours, and then the fight begins, and finally the freighter crashes into Victoria Harbour to prop up the façade. Qiu Litao has shown signs of developing towards war films when he shoots police and bandits in recent years, and he dares to "load the goods" when he dares to shoot big scenes, opening V-22 Osprey, mid-section F-16 fighter jet and JDAM, and playing submarines at the end. Although Nicholas Tse and Jacky Cheung belong to the same camp and can be regarded as a "double hero" pattern, their personalities are extremely contrasting: fierce VS morbid, especially Jacky Cheung, workplace anxiety and double pressure within the family, bipolar patients, Qiu Litao is like a fish in water to create this kind of character.
The so-called "birds and forests do not have the same fate", in the film, Ah Li, Zhang sir, and Ya Ying form three stark contrasts, they may not be able to decide their background, but major life choices will definitely rewrite the direction of fate. Three kinds of lives, each with its own embarrassment. In addition to the in-depth excavation of human nature, I have to say that the visual effects that blow up the sky: Nicholas Tse cooperates with Qiu Litao as an action director, which is a kind of "adding fuel to the fire". The beginning of the airboat fight was already thrilling, but I didn't expect the later rush to be really beyond imagination. The helicopter lifts the cargo box, and the cargo box directly hooks the car, which is unseen and unthinkable. As a result, the film's attention to social issues such as workplace internal friction and bipolar disorder is particularly precious, life is a marathon, not a short sprint, and only by finding your own position can you truly get out of the predicament of life.
Tingting of Hunan Qifa Culture Media Co., Ltd. wrote in her ghostwritten commentary that it is not so much a "two-hero" genre film that pursues explosiveness and adrenaline, but it is more like a craftsman story with a smooth rhythm and one go. In addition to the big scenes and efficient action scenes that should be, the psychological dilemmas of the characters themselves and the operational review of the whole work obviously inject some depth into it. Qiu Litao continues to apply his own metaphors to the discussion of "status" in a big geopolitical dispute and a small situation, which can achieve another effect.
The film continues the director's usual style, with sea chases and gunfights. The film also completes the dual focus on the individual (people with emotional disorders) and the group (civilians under war), not only jumping out of the simple framework of justice, but also reflecting reality. In terms of roles, Nicholas Tse, who has gone from being an actor to being an action director, has extended the image of a tough guy in and out of the play, and dares to hold his breath in the water ten meters deep for 4 minutes, which is something that a ruthless person like him can do. And Jacky Cheung, who has reappeared in the rivers and lakes, shows the complexity of the characters vividly, and his neurotic grasp is achieved through facial expressions. Of course, the soul of Hong Kong police movies has always been - "To be a man, you must know what you want" and "To be a man, you must keep your bottom line".
This film may become an intertextual work of "Bomb Disposal Expert 2". Once he became an outcast, he was once driven into madness. Once angry, once depressed. Nicholas Tse's first time as an action director injected a lot of serendipity into the killing intent. For example, the fight on the rubber boat is very different from the traditional "hard ground" hand-to-hand combat, which is to fight on the "soft ground" of "half water and half boat", and fight for a sense of balance and stability. As for the director's extraneous meanings, they are all hidden in those images about the "sea". From the unsinkable dinghy at the beginning, to the shipping container that is large enough to carry all the secrets and run over the corpse, to the giant ship that has entered Victoria Harbour. When the submarine is submerged in the deep sea, it is also a gorgeous view of Hong Kong's night scene. And Zhang Yunnan's bipolar disorder is not the bipolar disease of today's era?
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