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It is said that Hong Kong movies are not good, but I didn't expect it to be so bad.
Last year, several Hong Kong films starring Chow Yun-fat, Louis Koo, Cheung Ka-fai and others were released, and word-of-mouth and box office collapsed one after another.
When it comes to the Spring Festival, another Hong Kong film will be released before the Lantern Festival.
Breaking the War. The director is Peng Fa, who won the best editing that year with "Infernal Affairs", starring the two major actors Wu Zhenyu and Ren Dahua, as well as Lin Xue, Liao Qizhi (filmed before his death), Luo Yingjun and other Hong Kong film ** supporting roles, and the theme is also the type of police and bandit that Hong Kong films are best at.
However, who would have thought that this movie would become the worst Hong Kong film of the year ahead of schedule!
Netizens scolded the "bad movie", and the Douban score went from a surprisingly low 33 points dropped to a lower 32 points, and was also sighed as "the darkest moment of Hong Kong movies".
What's even more embarrassing is that "Breaking the War" has been released on February 16 for 9 days (as of February 24), and the box office is only 810,000!
What is this concept?
Not to mention the starring role, the current pitiful box office, which is not even a fraction of the salary of the main supporting roles.
Not only was it released quietly, but even the flutter was silent, as if it had never been screened, without even a splash.
Are Hong Kong films really soft? Starring two major actors, it was released for 9 days, and the box office was only 810,000, it's unimaginable!
Some netizens commented distressedly
Hong Kong films have fallen to this level, which is heart-wrenching! The acting skills of all the members are not **, the plot is sparse, and the dialogue is ridiculous.
Some people even asked: What happened to Hong Kong movies?
If the Hong Kong movies mentioned above are still telling stories well, this "Breaking War" is like a child's play in terms of story.
The synopsis of the movie is: a showdown between a man who commits a crime in the name of a "savior" and Hong Kong**. The work focuses more on the confrontation between the weak and the weak, and the final self-atonement of people in a "sick" society.
seems to be unfathomable, but in fact it is a police and bandit duel with no new ideas and old-fashioned teeth, no wonder some viewers said after watching it: "Is it a script left over from the last century?" I can't believe that in 2024, such a script can still be made into a movie. ”
In addition, this is a "difficult old product", which makes people worry about the quality even more.
There is an actor in "Breaking the War" who is a veteran of Hong Kong films, Liao Qizhi, who died of illness in 2021.
Only then did everyone find out that in fact, this movie was filmed in 2019 and is one of Liao Qizhi's posthumous works, but this movie will not be released in 2024 until 3 years after his death.
However, although it has been "pressing the bottom of the box" for several years and giving enough time for editing and revision, the result of the release of "Breaking the War" now is that the audience scolds the bad movie.
It is unimaginable that Wu Zhenyu , Ren Dahua , Lin Xue , Liao Qizhi , these are all recognized as powerful actors in Hong Kong films, gathered in a Hong Kong police film, and they were also scolded along with the movie.
Even the male protagonists Wu Zhenyu and Ren Dahua seem to be like air in this movie.
Wu Zhenyu and Ren Dahua did not post any promotional content about this movie on their social accounts at all.
During the Spring Festival, Ren Dahua released a photo of himself and his wife, and Wu Zhenyu's latest content was about another variety show.
I don't know if the fee is not in place, or they have nothing to say about the movie "Breaking the War" starring themselves?
Although "Breaking the War" did not become a deserter, and was withdrawn like several movies such as "Mr. Red Carpet" starring Andy Lau, such a poor theatrical performance made it choose to broadcast on the network at the same time.
As a result, the results in the first few days of the launch were much better than in the cinema, and the cumulative account score was 169 in 8 days60,000, than in the cinema that 810,000 is too much.
But it was obviously a theatrical movie with "high-end starring" going to the cinema, but it was transferred to the Internet after only 1 day of release, and it was directly downgraded to an "online movie", which was actually a fiasco.
The movie he starred in became an Internet university, and it is no wonder that Wu Zhenyu and Ren Dahua chose to remain silent on their social accounts, this is not a matter of publicity, this is already a matter of shame.
Their silence is also like the recent achievements of Hong Kong films, compared with the 3 billion box office movies of mainland filmmakers such as Jia Ling and Han Han during the Spring Festival, such silence is so deafening.
Hong Kong movies, what's wrong?
Is it a problem with the script, or a problem with the actors, or something else?
This is not something that one person in the Hong Kong film industry can answer, but everyone can't get rid of responsibility.
suddenly misses Johnny To, who has not directed a new film for 4 years.
The good news is that he previously revealed that his new film will be launched as early as before the Spring Festival.
Wait.