Have you seen the movie Shockwave 2? Why is there a good box office?
In fact, the box office of Shockwave 2 is not very good either. It hasn't broken 400 million for more than a month. It is estimated that the final box office should be around 500 million. The film investment is HK$ 654.38 +0.8 billion, which is about RMB 654.38 +0.6 billion. Generally speaking, the box office should be more than three times the investment to be profitable, that is to say, the movie will be profitable only if the final box office reaches 480 million, and Shockwave 2 has just reached the profit line.
In recent years, the typical gangster films in Hong Kong are Chill and Storm. The previous one used an all-star lineup, with high acting skills and high value. At the same time, the plot is very logical and has a certain suspense plot, which has a good reputation. The latter is the first scene of a Hong Kong-style gangster film, in which a fierce street gunfight blew up the hot scene in Central. Today's shock wave 2 is aimed at the Hung Hom tunnel.
This film has many advantages and progress, but it is also retrogressive in many aspects. The most important thing in gangster movies is the rationality and strict logic of the plot, and Shockwave 2 is not good at this.
Advantages: Andy Lau's acting skills, Cai Hanyi's surprise, no routine ending!
Hua Zai's acting can be said to hold up half the sky in this movie, but it is not as chic as the undercover in Infernal Affairs. There is also an undercover story in this film, which seems a bit thin. But compared with Wujiang's role orientation, this is a world of difference.
Wujiang is really unfit to be a leader of a villain. Do you think he is clever or not? He looks smart, but he is a little silly and childish, and his voice is hoarse when he speaks. The actor's greatest achievement is Cai Hanyi. He played the role of a small policeman with a bomb tied to him, which was very touching. Weak police officers have a strong sense of substitution. Not the usual police righteously pretending to be calm in do or die, but more real! When the bomb could not be defused, he was also desperate and helpless. He is just an ordinary person, crying and shouting: "I am a policeman!" I have a responsibility! Stay away from the crowd! Get away from the car! This is the least casualty! " With a loud explosion and a full screen of flames, my nose was sour and tears flowed involuntarily. At this time, he was just an ordinary person, but as a policeman, he did what he had to do.
The ending is no longer routine, which is a great progress in Hong Kong gangster films in the past two years. The happy ending seems perfect, but it has no artistic sense. How can the hero and heroine be safe and happy together every time? How can the bomb cut off the short line correctly at the last second? This film subverts this routine. Zhang Zaishan was finally killed, and the tragic ending made people feel more real.
Disadvantages: the plot is not rigorous enough, the role is not full enough, and the police and robbers lack wisdom!
First of all, Andy Lau, as an undercover in the plot, can easily call to report the whereabouts of the bandits, but he has long suspected that Wujiang, Andy Lau, had no defense against Andy Lau when he finally escaped. Isn't this a slap in the face? At first, Andy Lau went to rob a bank as an undercover, but he was indifferent when he saw so many guards killed, but he was very excited when he saw the unmanned car being bombed when he fled. As a policeman, ignoring the lives of ordinary people and caring so much about colleagues' policemen is definitely not the act of a hero who "hopes to exchange his life for others' lives".
Then there is Wujiang's villain leader position. Of course, the main purpose of bombing the red tunnel is to ask for money, but robbing his younger brother is also his other purpose, otherwise one hundred hostages will not be released because of his younger brother's arrival. Wujiang, who only valued brotherhood, simply ignored his brother's life and death in the subsequent gun battle and fled directly. This is so different from my brother's constant talk about taking his brother away and avenging him! This reason, this story, is as humorous as my brother's Lying Gun and Why Are You Carrying Explosives.
In fact, Song Jia is a dispensable role in this film, and it is unnatural to fall in love with Andy Lau at first sight. Moreover, the whole movie doesn't show how deep their feelings are, as if they were just an artificial person. If such an imposed role is not fully portrayed in a police film, it is gilding the lily!
The battle of wits and courage about police and bandits has always been the biggest selling point of police and bandits films. In this play, the gangster has always been the leader of the police, and the police have always shown a helpless face, and they can only meet the demands of the gangster again and again without showing any rational confrontation.
The argument that you can't storm has been brewing before, which makes you feel that there is a better way. I didn't expect the last storm! Then there were three retired policemen who said they couldn't just wait and take action at the right time. Maybe at this time, you will feel that there is a way to play from the inside out, starting with the internal disintegration of three retired old policemen. Unexpectedly, the three of them just killed a gangster in a melee and never appeared again.
Generally speaking, this film is the progress of Hong Kong-style films, but it is not the improvement of film quality. It can only be said that a film is made in the process of exploration, not limited to small scenes and gangs.