At the beginning of 2023, the anti-crime and anti-evil struggle drama "Hurricane" adapted from a real event will fight against the entire Spring Festival file with its own strength, becoming the most popular work at that time. Zhang Songwen, a powerful actor who played the villain Gao Qiqiang in this play, also became an instant hit, jumping directly from the third line to the first line, becoming the actor with the highest attention of the year. The reason why the drama "Hurricane" was able to become popular back then was inseparable from Zhang Songwen's wonderful performance. Although the role of Gao Qiqiang he played in the play is a villain, the role has even become an "inspirational model" in the minds of many people, and until now there is still a classic line from Gao Qiqiang's mouth that "the bigger the wind and waves, the more expensive the fish".
After becoming popular with the role of Gao Qiqiang in "Hurricane", Zhang Songwen can be said to have ushered in the spring of his actor career. Throughout 2023, the domestic market has launched a number of film works with Zhang Songwen's participation. In these film works, Zhang Songwen has played a police officer and a famous historical figure. However, compared with Gao Qiqiang in "Hurricane", these characters have a big gap, and they have not left too much impression on the audience, mainly because the quality and influence of the work itself are far less than that of "Hurricane". Therefore, the audience hopes that Zhang Songwen can star in another TV series and play another villain. Now, just after the Spring Festival in 2024, we ushered in the second TV series "Ice Hunting" starring Zhang Songwen after "Hurricane".
Like "Hurricane" that year, "Ice Hunting" is also based on real events, and the role played by Zhang Songwen in this drama is still a villain. The TV series "Ice Hunting" is co-directed by Gao Qunshu and Wan Peng, co-starring Zhang Songwen, Yao Anna and Han Geng, mainly tells the story of the anti-narcotics police represented by Zhao Younan (played by Yao Anna) who persistently pursued the drug trafficking group led by Huang Zongwei (played by Zhang Songwen), and finally succeeded in exterminating the drug gang.
From the perspective of the cast, "Ice Hunting" and "Hurricane" are completely incomparable, and I believe that the reason why many viewers choose this drama is because of the existence of Zhang Songwen. However, only Zhang Songwen's scenes can be watched in this drama, and the performances of other actors in other plots can't impress the audience at all.
In just one day, only two or three episodes of the plot have been broadcast, "Ice Hunting" has already attracted a large number of one-star and two-star negative reviews, and the audience's reasons for the bad reviews are very consistent. First of all, the audience still recognized Zhang Songwen's performance, and the Huang Zongwei he played in the play was based on the real drug maker Liu Zhaohua. He is gentle and loyal in appearance, alert and sensitive, thoughtful, with an elusive smile on his face at all times, and a shocking chess game in his heart at all times. Such a character is indeed outstanding under the shaping of Zhang Songwen. However, Yao Anna, who plays her opponent, gives people a very unnatural feeling, as if she can't act.
Yao Anna plays an anti-drug policewoman here, just like An Xin in "Hurricane". As the first heroine in the play, Yao Anna's roles are very important, but I don't know if she has never learned acting or acting is just a hobby of hers. Yao Anna didn't show what a policewoman should look like at all, but she was like a ** boss, always like to play cool, and her face was black all the time. It's unnatural on the whole. It was because of Yao Anna's bad performance that "Ice Hunting" attracted unanimous bad reviews from the audience, causing many viewers to abandon the drama directly. Zhang Songwen This time, it's really a pity.