The competition for the Lunar New Year stalls is coming to an end. Andy Lau took "Stealth" to settle in the New Year's Day file first, Tony Leung took "Goldfinger" to lag for a day, and Aaron Kwok held "Temporary Robbery" and entered the cold file. This choice makes sense. From the perspective of investment scale, "Goldfinger" has a lot of money, "Sneaking" claims to have an investment of 200 million, and the cost of "Temporary Robbery", combined with the speculation of the news of filming at that time, was capped at 70 million. In the past, Aaron Kwok gave an interview, and he happened to talk about this "Temporary Robbery". He said that the reason for taking over the filming is very simple, one movie is a rare black humor theme, and the other is the work of another new director, so there is no need to talk about the salary at all, just support it. As far as the lineup of this movie is concerned, if Aaron Kwok doesn't need to talk about any salary, can the cost of the movie be as big as **? The investment cost determines the choice of schedule, and this theory is simple and crude. But it makes perfect sense. 
The box office has largely settled. "Goldfinger" is the highest, and it can be slightly explored by 5500 million box office, "Stealth" is second, or close to 400 million box office, while "Temporary Robbery" is about 200 million and 300 million box office. In terms of return on investment, it may be the other way around. The box office structure of Hong Kong films has always included the mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia and the flow of **, and even includes some foreign box office revenues. Judging from the score and word-of-mouth, "Goldfinger" is relatively the most stable, followed by "Temporary Robbery", and "Stealth" is undoubtedly lagging behind. However, "Temporary Robbery" has a problem of polarizing word-of-mouth. The reason is certainly not complicated. One is that there are too many spoilers in the early stage, and the other is that because of the early announcement, many people mistakenly regard this movie as a pure Hong Kong-style nonsense, and producer Er Dongsheng's sentence of "unserious Hong Kong film" deepens this misunderstanding. As a result, the second half of the movie is reversed, which is very heart-wrenching. But on the whole, these three movies are actually not about winning or losing. Although the results are not impressive, they can be regarded as holding the chassis. 
At this point, I would like to talk about the scoring issue separately. From a personal point of view, I have always disapproved of using ratings to define the quality of movies. The issue of scoring, it seems that it can be understood in this way, idol movies, there is no problem with getting a high score for the first time as a fan, and don't be reasonable, but if you are not interested in the movie, you can not watch it, there is no need to follow the trend to score a low score, as for good movies, people who have the habit of scoring, after watching it, of course, they must strongly recommend it. But in fact, regarding the rating, if you flip through the statistics of the rating**, it may shock the jaws of countless people. Up to now, the total number of moviegoers of "Goldfinger" is 11.96 million, of which 660,000 people participated in the rating, and the total number of viewers of "Stealth" was 9.3 million, of which 590,000 people participated in the rating, and the total number of viewers of "Temporary Robbery" was 3.61 million, of which 210,000 people participated in the rating. The data ratio of another Wenqing platform is also roughly similar. This ratio is about 5, which means that only five people score for a thousand people, and this does not exclude the situation that there is no ability to evaluate, but only follow the trend to score. But this determines the score of the movie. Is it fair? Therefore, with a few exceptions, the score is actually for reference only. 
Finally, let's talk about acting. Personally, I have watched almost all the past movies of Andy Lau, Tony Leung and Aaron Kwok, but since I did not watch "Goldfinger" and "Stealth" this time, this article only talks about Aaron Kwok. He is a creative actor. From professional killers, inspirational boxers, and comic characters, to judo masters, tragic policemen, market cooks, private detectives, ticket number masters, collapse inspectors, to terminally ill patients, Chinese Taipan, police commissioners, mythological characters, hidden masters, old policemen, black policemen, high-IQ criminals, vagrants and wealthy gentry, Aaron Kwok's plasticity has always been breathtaking. His changes and creations are not only reflected in the technical level. Rather, it is an all-round change from appearance, mood, emotion, to eyes, micro-expressions and body language. This requires a comprehensive ability that involves drama, empathy, resonance, explosion, and layering. No matter how you measure it, Aaron Kwok is the super type. For example, the character Mei Lantian this time. 
There are many sides to this character. At the bottom, he was a poor man who worked hard. took wrestling as a profession, but failed to earn money, and could not give his wife and children a good life, although it was hard, he has been sticking to it and working hard, to the vast majority of the general public. Flipping through the floor, he's a bandit. The previous propaganda may have been a little misleading, such as Mang, Oolong, and the waste middle-aged trio. But in fact, this is really an out-and-out thief, cool-headed, not afraid of death, but it can break out on the spot, and it will also endure and wait, whether it is a bank, a car repair shop, on a cliff, or a gangster den, on the way to escape, these characteristics are vividly expressed. And on the other hand, he is quite humorous. Holding a gun requires the driver to play the meter, tolerates the driver's delay at the traffic light, says thank you, makes up a shot, and is very good at making fun of suffering, such as when the car breaks down and pushes the cart, in Annan language, singing the out-of-tune "I just want to go with you for the rest of my life", which is not interesting. But the core layer is compassion. Fans can pay attention to two of the scenes, one is to say "sorry" to the smashed one, the fullness and depth of emotions in this look are really amazing, and the other is the emotional outburst scene on the way to the cart, which can be a god. Here we will focus on the scene of "cart". 
Murong Hui said, "Brother Tian, what kind of back do you have to rob?" It evokes the past that Mei Lantian hides in the bottom of her heart. He began to recall. He offended the gangsters, and those people ran to his house to smash and beat his wife, and he returned home in anger and beat those people until they were in a state of urine, but his son Watermelon, because he was afraid, ran out of the house. "Boom! Mei Lantian roared, and Murong Hui and Ah Yi were frightened and silent. In just ten seconds, Aaron Kwok's eyes and facial expressions are presented, from extreme pain, inability to face and struggle to control emotions, to sudden turns of madness and infinite affection, such a complex and diverse state. This is not the so-called eyes can speak, eye bags can act, or in a short period of time, do a quick switch between expressions and eyes. It can't even be defined in a simple technical description. It's a kind of explosion and shock from the inside out, and at that moment, I believe that Aaron Kwok is completely integrated with the character, and almost all the spirit of the time has been exhausted. There is another detail in this plot. Mei Lantian invited the two to go to Annan to spend their days very righteously, but the two of them were afraid of this big thief, and they both had families and concerns, so how could they follow? Hearing the two refuse, he didn't say a word, just a move of raising his eyebrows, he obviously understood everything. "I'll get on the boat, I'll divide the money, and let you go," he said word by word, "and say thank you." "This scene of performance is like mercury pouring on the ground. When Annan's "I Just Want to Go with You All My Life" sounded, a wisp of artistic conception that was also the end of the world fell to people, and spontaneously appeared. Say thank you, so unpretentious, and so moving. 
Look to the future. Conventionally, "Stealth" and "Goldfinger", or on the timeline, meet the conditions for being shortlisted for the 2024 Hong Kong Film Awards, while "Temporary Robbery" just missed and had to wait for 2025 to be shortlisted. If you talk about the actor candidate. Put a lead ** here. Although in the history of the Academy Awards, the results have been questioned, or there are many pearls. But Aaron Kwok's role as Mei Lantian has more than ninety percent chances, which will bring him his second Academy Award Best Actor trophy and the fourth third Golden Best Actor trophy. Here's what you say, welcome follow-up verification.