"Hidden Man" is an action comedy movie, which is directed by famous Chinese director Jiang Wen. The film was adapted from Zhang Beihai's novel "Xia Yin". Before the outbreak of the "July 7 Incident" in 1937 at the dark moment of Peking City, a special agent Li Tianran, who was born with great hatred and returned from the United States, was the ultimate revenge in the conspiracy of the national disaster. . During the Beiyang years in Peking, Li Tianran witnessed the brother Zhu Qianlong colluding with the Japanese secret agent Ichiro, killing the master family. Li Tianran escaped from the gun and was rescued by American doctor Hendler. After he recovered from natural injury, he went to the United States to study medicine for many years and at the same time received special agent training. At the beginning of 1937, Li Tianran was suddenly ordered to return to China. On the eve of the "July 7 Incident" at Peking city, the city of international spies, mixed with oceans and mountains, is full of temptations and murders. Li Tianran, who was revengeful, did not know that he was involved in a conspiracy and also disrupted a game of chess.

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At that time, the former martial artist Lan Qingfeng, who is mysterious and unpredictable, has close ties with Zhu Qianlong and Ichiro, and is more intimate with Hendler. Is Lan Qingfeng a friend or a friend? Li Tianran has no idea about it. As the crisis in China and Japan continues to escalate, the game between the parties has intensified. Li Tianran, ​​who repeatedly confused the lie and missed the opportunity, finally made up his mind to open the revenge action with the help of the tailor, Guan Qiaohong, and exposed the entire era of the door and the characters to the world. I have always liked the early Jiang Wen, but the sentence "This movie is very Jiang Wen" can not explain the controversy of the film. Jiang Wen is a person who is not a god. This is a prerequisite that must be acknowledged. If you treat him as a god, then what I said is meaningless. The pure story is abandoned by Jiang Wen. Therefore, compared with the art theater, "Hidden Man" is placed on the commercial market, which is not so friendly to the audience.

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Even though there are more metaphors and concepts in the film, in the narrative rhythm, the film is broken. And "Let the Bullets Fly (2010)", there is no such problem. This is the biggest difference between the two films. Jiang Wen can counter traditional tweezers and anti-techniques. He can use the quick clips to let the emotions go to the end. You can use the characters' lines to bury his pre-set banter, but if the form and concept are used to destroy the rhythm and perception of the story, this It is not a sentence that "very Jiang Wen" can explain. No brain powder and no brain black is a kind of harm to the film itself. Jiang Wen is undoubtedly a genius. He is fully capable of making the film smooth and pleasant, taking into account business and art, standing and earning money. However, Jiang Wen is not biased. We admit that Jiang Wen is a good director, but this good director has been away from the ground for too long. Just relying on the creation of impulsiveness and self-personality will also produce unsatisfactory films. If "Let the Bullets Fly" is a friendly expression of both narrative and concept, then "Hidden Man" is obviously Jiang Wen's self-proclaimed glimpse of the audience, and this anti-traditional technique is not very smart.

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Jiang Wen has a stubborn preference for the endless Peking roof. The life on the roof is the most beautiful and clean part of the movie. The roof is like a paradise constructed by the film. Whether it is Qiaohong or Li, the natural money is still full of money. Separated from reality into two worlds, people in this world speak people's words, and there is no hidden mystery. I think this is the best part of the film. We can fully enjoy the sensory stimulation brought by the film. The filming of the film is full of the pleasure of Quentin's violent aesthetics. The shiny muscles in Li Tianran and the four points left by the bullet holes and bloodstains during revenge are very beautiful. All of a sudden, it is enough to be enjoyable and refreshing. Zhou Yun's performance of Guan Qiaohong has a kind of calming "hidden", which is in sharp contrast with the love and affection. In the end, the ridiculousness is lost, and the hermit becomes fascinated. The thrill of the gushing from the screen completed the part of the movie's sensory enjoyment, but the rhythm of the collapse did not tandem the goodwill of its movie narrative.

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The accurate rhythm in "Let the Bullets Fly" made the audience see the charm of Jiang Wen's movie lines. The high-speed dialogue that appeared again in the new film failed to bring the expected pleasure and enjoyment. This kind of line based on metaphor has a very high demand for actors. It is necessary not only to accurately grasp the elements of breath, punctuality and accent, but also to clearly understand the deep meaning behind the lines and turn metaphor into opponents. The emotions, therefore, the two actors are no longer a simple dialogue, but have something to say. But the film started from the opening of Li Tianran and the foreign old car’s lines. It’s awkward. The sinful banter has become a slogan, not to mention the young actors and Jiang Wen’s. The opponent played, and could not keep up with the rhythm of Jiang Wen. When the actors use the traditional dialogue to try to adapt to Jiang Wen's anti-conventional lines, and the final words are not human. Not all actors are suitable for their own lines. Obviously, Jiang Wen knows this. Aside from this point, we still hope to experience the excitement of Peking’s revenge in Jiang Wen’s story. In fact, the metaphor for a large number of play concepts that will appear in the film has already been psychologically prepared, but I never thought that the director put concepts and metaphors into the mouth of the characters, squeeze into the gaps of the plot, at the expense of the rhythm of the story.

My Score is 5.9

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Movie URL: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/503235?language=en-US
Critic: AA