Acts of the Apostles 2
The movie, directed by Wen Weihong and starring Zhang Jiahui, Louis Koo, Francis Ng, Peiyao Jiang, and Yu-Ning Liu, was released on July 4th.
In the process of watching the movie, through those beautiful panoramic shots, I kept thinking of Tom Cruise’s film series “Mission Impossible”, as if the director really intended to create a “Hong Kong version of the spy movie universe”, especially when the “IFF” is a “Hong Kong version of the spy movie universe”. When the hidden agency appeared, it suddenly made me think that this “Apostle series” might really go on forever, and that “Apostle 2” would be a good start, since the director was much more ambitious than “Apostle 1” and burned much more money for special effects than the first film, which was of course much more expensive. It’s good and spectacular, and to some extent it makes the whole movie look “thick and light”.
However, in this story about a terrorist organization of human traffickers, it is more exciting to see the brotherhood between Zhang Jiahui’s Cheng Tao and Koo Tianle’s Jing Jinxian than the battle of wits between the police and the bandits, the exciting fights and the constant reversals, reversals, and reversals of the plot.
The scene in the “Changsha Hotel” where the three of them confront each other is a classic and the best part of the movie, especially when Kuttner’s character, Jing Jinxian, has no choice but to betray his conscience and his master, Ye Guofan (played by Francis Ng), because his child is controlled by the “headquarters”.
It’s like the scene in “Gunsmoke” in which Ghost (played by Huang Qiusheng), Lai (played by Francis Ng), Mike (played by Zhang Yaoyang), Xin (played by Lui Songxian) and Fei (played by Lin Xue) complete a mission for the big brother, but are told that Xin has had an affair with his sister-in-law and must be eliminated, making these five men, who had no connection with each other, become brothers in arms and go through a severe test after a life-and-death struggle.
Brothers, no one is willing to die, let alone die under each other’s guns, but the crossbow is drawn and the sword is on the verge of being fired. At the moment of the shooting, the atmosphere is breathtakingly thrilling, and the gun that is fired at each other does indeed fire, crackling and falling to the ground.
However, the director did not let John Woo’s character, Ye Guofan, survive, but he did use a lot of effort to make his death worthy and logical, with more imagery and sense of mission than the first elevator death.
Cool!
During the round table negotiations, the facial expressions of Gutenberg (Jing Jinxian) at that time are also very much in place, bloodshot eyes, the uncontrollable pain, all in the dialogue one by one, playing with the Rubik’s cube in the hands, the message, but also for the subsequent development of the pavement, really really really like this section of the performance, even after the breakdown of the gun battle also came at the right time.
When I think back to the first part of the film, Kutinaku was very unhappy because his identity was taken over by Zhang Jiahui, and because he knew Zhang’s identity as an undercover agent, he impersonated him and contacted the police, impersonating an undercover agent.
He said: “You don’t owe anything, I never force my friends to do what they don’t want to do, I have my own principles, I don’t want to be stepped on for the rest of my life, you think I’m a stinky beggar, I’ve waited for three years, just waiting for a chance, I want to fight for a breath of air, not to prove that I’m great; I want to tell people that I must get back what I’ve lost. ”
And now in “Acts 2”, Cheng Tao (Zhang Jiahui) and Jing Jinxian (Louis Koo), the love between them is still priceless, and the same scene as in “Acts 1”, the exact same edge of the crisis, Zhang Jiahui is still beaten to the ground, and Louis Koo is still holding a knife to his throat, and the two people who worked together to defeat the criminals at the last critical moment hug each other, and die, it is still Zhang Jiahui.
Before he died, Zhang said, “I don’t know how you survived these past 30 years, but I know that if you hadn’t turned around to save me, I would have been the one arrested.” Instantly, I burst into tears.
Who are the bad cops?
If this love can be remembered, this love can be regretted, then the brotherhood of these two, this unimaginable love and righteousness, tribulations and ups and downs, involuntary and have no choice, ask the world, how many can there be?
The first time I saw this, I thought it would be a good idea for me to have the opportunity to see it.
Even though he has acted in a lot of police movies this year, there are a lot of criticisms, but in “Apostle 2”, I dare to say that he really tried his best, not only to perform hard, but also to look like a full score, all kinds of blue suits are not only handsome, but also look like Tony’s (Iron Man) glasses, with his wheat skin and handsome face is even more eye-catching, simply can’t look too good.
For the sake of his wife and children, he did not accept his fate to live, a great father image, which happened to be the weakness of many female audience friends, this kind of serious and responsible man, who does not love? No wonder his wife in the movie would say: “No matter what you do, I will support you, husband.”
Nowadays, such a good-looking and eye catching Hong Kong film is bravely released like a mainstay in a large wave of withdrawn movies, I’m really glad to have met it. (Haha)
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