In the first half of the movie, at least before Eddie lost all his money, everyone was still dizzy because of the characters who appeared one after another. As a rookie director, it is true that his grasp of the camera is surprisingly mature, and his editing style is quite novel, however, the script is too winding, which is a drawback, and if a film fails to retain a majority of the audience at the beginning, it is a failure.

After all, most viewers don't care how your film will be □□ or profound, they just watch movies as a pastime, and most people don't have much patience, if a movie not only doesn't entertain them, but also bores them, they may not have the desire/hope to continue watching.

So most film critics couldn't help but sigh and shake their heads when they saw the beginning of "Two Big Smoking Guns" - although Guy Ritchie stuffed so much character information to the audience at the beginning that people lost patience to continue watching, but after all, this is the first time that people have written, directed and edited themselves, and it is not bad to be able to do this kind of Cheng dù.

There are also more patient film critics, when their brains can't memorize so many characters at the same time, they immediately decide to write down those names one by one in their notebooks. As a good film critic, you should have a good sense of a good film, and they smell something unusual in the sharp editing style - after all, apart from too many words starting with F, this movie has so far not been close to CULT.

But their sighs or painstaking memories are only limited to before Eddie walks into the game, when Eddie walks into the game, at that moment, everyone present unbelievably discovers that the momentum of the movie has changed. This is not only due to the acting skills of Theolod who plays Eddie, but also to the skill of the director. It was also at that moment that they realized why the film could be classified as a cult.

Because it's too special, it's too different, it's too ...... Cool!

When the plot progresses dramatically to the end of the drug dealer gang and the big drug lord gang due to countless coincidences, the debt collector takes the money bag with his hand, and the four protagonists who perfectly avoid the shooting return home, only to see the walls and corpses full of holes, everyone present can't help but smile with laughter but excitement.

Davis couldn't laugh at all, because he found that no matter how much he loved traditional films, it was difficult for him to pick any thorns in such a dramatic plot full of unknowns and coincidences. This is a link, an unexpected and reasonable plot development, which is not detached from the sharp editing style with water, and this funny but very appropriate soundtrack...... How does this qiē make him pick a thorn?

What are you kidding, let's not say that the essence of this movie is the plot rather than the actors and characters, just the play of the four protagonists...... To put it in a fault-finding tone, it's decent, because - although Davis doesn't want to admit it - in the comparison of Theorod, the other three are a little unpopular, and Theorod's evaluation of what he plays is not groundless, but what if the three are not decent enough? The plot perfectly hides this.

Hell, even Sting and Vinnie Jones, who aren't actors, are playing to a normal level, what the fuck is the magic of this movie?!

"This is so beautiful!Mr. Davis, can you believe that I would use the word 'beautiful' to describe a movie?" Edwards, who was sitting next to Davis, exclaimed with surprise as if he didn't notice the ugliness of Davis's face, "This Guy Ritchie is really unexpected, his film is so cool." ”

“…… Mmmmmm......mmmmmmmmmm Although Edwards's tone was not much different from the friendly chit-chat he had before, and it was still polite, Davis listened to it like a thin needle piercing his heart again and again, making him feel uncomfortable.

"Oh, it looks like the two of us want to go together again, it's a tacit understanding. ”

…… Who has a tacit understanding with you? Davis was so angry that a mouthful of old blood was stuck in his chest, and he couldn't swallow it and squirt out.

There are also many people who can't laugh except Davis. When the plot of the movie developed in a trend that they could not predict, the smiles and contempt on the faces of those who were waiting to see the show gradually stiffened, and they seemed to hear one after another "pop" crisp sound in the theater of Noda, and the invisible thugs slapped on their faces, only feeling hot pain.

This...... What's going on? It's not the same as saying yes...... They silently looked at the trivial comments that were synchronously jotted down in their notebooks, "The camera sense of the movie is very good, but it is really difficult for Guy Ritchie to escape the circle of shortcomings inherent in new directors", "The editing is really praiseworthy, but the long-winded plot cannot be saved by the best editing", "The small actions of the little people limit the starting point of the whole movie to the point of 'small'......

This movie overturns everyone's evaluation of the first half of it, and the critic has to face his swollen face, turn a new page of the notebook, and write that sentence like a smart heart-

"It's a movie that's cool to the bone......"

But Davis didn't want to write about it, and he didn't even want to write any comments on Two Smoking Guns. Given that he had to send the film review to the editor-in-chief's mailbox before the newspaper was printed tomorrow, tonight was destined to be a sleepless night for him.

The next day, fans of Theorod, who were far away in the United States, began to enter the forum early, waiting for the message of "Two Big Smoking Guns" from the United Kingdom. Is "Two Big Smoking Guns" good? Nonsense, it must be good, this is their Theo's movie, and the focus of their attention is on what the movie is about, how the evaluation is received, whether Theo in the film is charming and excellent, and so on.

Twentieth Century Fox revealed that they are ready to see how well "Two Smoking Guns" will be heard in the UK before deciding when it will be released in the US, so at the moment, these fans are extremely concerned about the box office and reviews on the first day of filming. Moreover, when the film critics who said cool things before learned that Theolod actually went to the UK to act in a cult film by an unheard-of director, they ridiculed it fiercely, and the fans were itchy and eager to go up and beat them. But they also know that the most powerful rebuttal is the public reaction after the opening of the painting, and the fans who scolded Theolod as if they were scolding themselves are desperate to get out of this breath.

Theorod fans in London were very efficient, and the moment they bought the newspapers from the newsstands, they posted reviews of the entertainment sections on the forums. Fans in the United States get up together and open the forum, and they can see the information about "Two Big Smoking Guns" that has been pinned to the top.

Not only fans, but also some media critics who are optimistic about Theorod and film critics who don't like him are also paying attention to this matter to a greater or lesser extent. From Theolod's debut to the present, each of his films has carried an irresistible appeal, and each one has been widely debated, and although it is not as good at the box office as the popcorn movies that were born to be big hits, it is a fact that they have been applauded by all of them. "Two Big Smoking Guns" may be a sharp blade that can end his "myth", and many people are waiting to see this good show.

However, the end result is destined to disappoint these people.

"If you have the impression that the so-called cult movies are violent and bloody, and then doused with some sexual/elemental and foul language chaotic feast, then "Two Smoking Guns" is destined to subvert your perception. The Daily Mail's Hugh Edwards, an influential film critic in the theater industry, surprised many people by pushing "Two Smoking Guns" to the pinnacle of cult cinema at the beginning, "This is a movie that is cool to the bone." ”

"The plot of the film is not something that I can depict in my poor and monotonous language, and its charm can only be realized when you actually sit in a movie theater chair, and no words or description can show the subtlety and spirituality in it. From the beginning of the film, no one can imagine its final ending, and perhaps it is impossible to describe the various situations encountered by each character in the plot by coincidence, but a kind of fate. ”

"O'Henry-esque development is perfectly exemplified in this film. It's like one ring after another, a circle-style movie, no, maybe the use of 'circle' can no longer accurately describe the one coincidence after another of this film, it should be said to be Mobiusband. The magic of this paper ring that twists a paper strip 180° together is so magical that ordinary paper rings can only be cut into two paper rings, but the Möbius tape can be turned into a larger, continuous paper ring, just like in this movie. ”

"The Möbius strip formed by all these 'coincidences' is the epitome of this film, and perhaps the epitome of life. The drama in this film is more evocative than any play I've ever seen, and as a rookie director, Guy Ritchie is admirably mature and precise in his handling of the shots and in the final cut. He made this movie, and what really brought this movie to life was the actors of the movie. ”

"Who can believe that the 'little person' Eddie in the film is the 'that' Theorod in real life?"

When Shaun Thorpe saw Edwards' evaluation of Theorod, he couldn't stand it at all. Yes, who can believe that a film critic who likes Shakespeare's plays will hold a cult film in high esteem? As a theater critic, you should evaluate your drama well, and what kind of movie is it?!

This typical "Theoblack" didn't know that on the other side of the Atlantic, there was another person who thought of going with him, and this person was naturally Davis. He was so angry that he almost tore the newspaper in half when he saw that his "compatriots" admired "Two Smoking Guns" so much that he was so optimistic about the movie that you were so optimistic about the movie in the first place? Why did you pretend to be someone in the same camp as him? Aren't you obviously playing with his feelings?!

In this regard, Edwards would only smile and say - sorry sorry, there was a traffic jam on the road, and he was accidentally late, in fact, he didn't plan to be late.

Edwards' comments naturally drew a lot of seconding, but there were also those who said that the film was not as good as it was supposed to be, and that at least the first fifteen minutes of the opening were boring enough to make people sleepy. And too many characters and names in the movie is also a drawback, and you will get dizzy if you don't pay attention to it.

The acting skills of the actors are also a drawback - after all, most of the people in the film are unknown newcomers or have never been exposed to acting at all - some people who are bent on finding fault have been grasping for the acting skills, they don't seem to care about the plot of the movie itself The excitement of the plot can make anyone ignore the acting skills of the actors, and Theorod as the lead actor is also enough to hold up the scene.

Theolod Lecht became the foil to the film itself. There is simply no room for him to play in the movie, or rather, his acting skills are of no use to "Two Smoking Guns". When talking about actors, some people have ulterior motives to say, "He's just a dispensable being." ”

Probably because the previous movie was evaluated beyond the movie itself because of Theorod's performance, which made these people very unhappy, so now they jumped out and said - you Theorod has no "magic" at all, and the success of this movie is because of itself and not because of you!

It's just that it is unknown how much of an impact this kind of attack similar to that of an angry villain can have, and I'm afraid that most sober people will only sneer after seeing it - that's it.

The box office on the first day of the opening was also announced early in the morning of the next day. 351479 pounds at the box office, which is not high, you must know that even "The Devil's Advocate", which had an unfavorable start, had a box office of 900,000 US dollars on the first day. However, if you look at the number of theaters that are screened here, you don't think so.

What kind of concept is this concept when it was released in 230 theaters and achieved a box office result of 350,000 pounds? When "The Devil's Advocate" was released, it was released in 2,161 movie theaters! What if these 230 theaters also became 2,161? At that time, how much would the box office become?

What's more, "Two Big Smoking Guns" is just a niche movie, even if it is some popular movies, when it is released in 230 theaters, it is difficult for many to win this kind of box office.

At this moment, countless people who were waiting to see the joke were dumbfounded.

As for Theolod, he didn't know what that number was, he had to accompany the rest of the crew to a magazine interview, and then that afternoon, he had to rush to Italy to prepare for the filming of "The Genius Ripley". That's why he doesn't have so much time to take care of the mood of these guys who are swollen in the face.