The Imaging Power Project was designated as a first-class film in Hong Kong, and it was introduced in the mainland without cutting it.
This is the biggest attraction of "Breaking Point", and with director Lin Chaoxian, there seems to be no reason not to watch it.
From Hong Kong films to the main theme to Hong Kong films, Lin Chaoxian went around and returned to Hong Kong films, unlike traditional formula Hong Kong police films, "Breaking Point" belongs to police and bandit cult films.
Although the story is nothing more than the policeman, the undercover agent's mood changes with reality, hovering between falling into the magic police, the villain is still a face-painted character, but in terms of scale, it is indeed the largest in recent years.
For example, the opening scene is Lu Huiguang, who is divided into two, with all kinds of throat wiping, violence, blood, saltiness, and banging in the middle, and finally the knife in the cave stabs his daughter, breaks his hand and fights, and burns the young man, and in a trance, I thought it was Qiu Litao's **.
This kind of image is not only the shadow of Qiu Litao, "Breaking Point" looks at the past at a glance, and its eyes are full of fragments of previous Hong Kong films.
"Infernal Affairs" for three years and three years", "Police Story" that was forced to be helpless, "New Police Story" where all teammates sacrificed, and "Red Fan District" that smashed bottles.
and "Shinjuku Incident", "Fuse" and "Disciple", all of which are cornered, and survive with personal heroism, and also point to Wong Kar-wai's "2046" and "Chongqing Forest".
The mixed elements make "Breaking Point" quite a Hong Kong film, but the miscellaneous and disorganized also makes "Breaking Point" extremely regrettable.
The script is too loose, there are many lines, but each line is not filmed wonderfully, and the duration of more than two hours, the story is mediocre, and it can't be supported by scale alone.
It's better to cut out the parts and make the seriously unbalanced rhythm brighter, even if it will lose the logic of the narrative, but at least it will be exciting to watch, after all, what the popcorn film wants is to be able to sit still.
When the feeling of sitting on pins and needles comes out, it is reasonable that the box office of that commercial film is not good.
When the phenomenon of rhythm collapse is seen, the difference between Lin Chaoxian as the chief director and Tang Weihan as the director is obvious.
In the past, Lin Chaoxian's movies, whether it was "The Informant", "Witness", or "Operation Mekong" and "Operation Red Sea", the script was not unusual, the key was the rhythm, but the failure of "Breaking Point" was precisely because of this.
If you can make adjustments, maybe the evaluation will be higher, and I finally came across a different police movie, with Lin Chaoxian's name, but it lacks Lin Chaoxian's characteristics, and it is very ambitious, too much, and it is difficult to land.
Without the word "compact," no matter how much violent, fiery, madness, madness, and other elements become hanging gardens.
At first glance, it is very cool and enjoyable, but in fact, the vain aesthetics of violence, if there is no carrier, no matter how big the scale is, it is useless, and it has the name of cult, but there is no reality of cult.
For example, Liang Luoshi's sister and brother, Yang Youning's line can be completely removed, they have almost no role in advancing the main line, and in the end, Zhang Jiahui still relies on William Chan and goes head-to-head with drug dealers.
The director may want to use this line to ** humanity, but it backfires, making the script bloated, if they put their role on William Chan and fully excavate, the main line will be more perfect, and the characters will be more three-dimensional.
The ruptured style doesn't fit in with the lengthy narrative, and the flat characters are too incompatible with the superficial theme.
The most difficult thing about movies is to do subtraction, when I don't reach the level of a big director, especially when directing commercial films, I must think more about why the audience likes it, rather than being reluctant to do it myself.
It is precisely because of this reluctance that the understanding of Hong Kong utilitarianism is too superficial, so that "Breaking Point" has no focus.
Hong Kong flavor is to give the audience what they want, but the premise is to understand the audience's preferences and make a movie that can be watched, rather than adding elements to it, this is a big mess, not a Buddha jumping over the wall.
The driving force of the plot in the film is not the structure, but the next scene, there are several large-scale shots that need to be shown, which makes the large-scale a hunting landscape and does not provide emotional value.
The complexity of the characters in the face of black-and-white, desperate situations can inject soul into Breaking Point.
For example, Cheung Jiahui and William Chan, one because of their son's contact with the gang, and the other because of their identity and mission, decided to use lynching, and their choices in doing these things brought about by thinking, trial, and ** give the film depth.
But the director only tasted it and mentioned it and then didn't follow up, just like skipping it with an edit every time he needed to explain at a critical moment, resulting in everyone's lack of motivation and lack of persuasiveness in everything.
The part of "Breaking Point" that didn't do it was not in place.
Zhang Jiahui asked William Chan to be an undercover agent, and specifically mentioned "Infernal Affairs", thinking that it would be like "Infernal Affairs" to film the open and secret battles of the hidden front, but the answer given by the director was shocking.
William Chan is an undercover agent, and the whole police force knows it, so he almost engraved the words "I am an undercover agent" on his head, and the drug dealers are also swaggering everywhere, and the underground students are dishonored, but they wish the whole world would know.
Two groups of people, one has no common sense, the other has no IQ, such a duel, the excitement of your comings and goings will definitely be gone, and there is only a large-scale uncut to refresh the mind and tell the audience not to be bored.
What kind of dramatic tension, the arc of the characters does not exist, it is fragmented, and it is scattered.
Zhang Jiahui was so busy that he had to participate in every line, William Chan disappeared for a long time in the middle, and the director didn't understand the priority of the plot distribution, so he just filled it in one go.
Next time, Lin Chaoxian should polish the script well, a movie that could have easily exceeded 100 million at the box office and a medium level of word-of-mouth, but it only had more than 90 million **, 65 ratings, although not wronged, but regretful.