Chapter 50: Twin Lines
The audience only seemed to come to life after the end of the movie, discussing, sighing and other voices sounded one after another, although everyone knew that Xu Zhengyang would not die, but the last Chiba Shinichi pressed the timer detonator and Xu Zhengyang to fight the picture, still people can't help but be scared, especially when the time jumps to zero seconds, Xu Zhengyang pressed the timer switch but can no longer lift it, once the airport is lifted, the design that explodes, looking at the scarred Xu Zhengyang's eyes is resolute, and his fingers are tightly pressed on the red detonation button, made the audience raise their hearts to their throats, lest Xu Zhengyang would not be able to hold on, and a lack of strength would fall short.
The plot of the whole movie is actually very simple, without any nutrition, you can't find any literary nutrition from the movie, this is a complete popcorn movie, so that the audience is attracted by the plot and characters from beginning to end, shocked by the picture, and finally has a feeling of unfinished.
However, contrary to the popularity of the single-day box office exceeding 1.7 million the next day, in addition to the newspapers and periodicals that received Yongsheng red envelopes, the evaluations given by some film critics were very average.
"This is a movie that I expected too much so I was very disappointed, as a sequel to the previous one, Chen Qingjia's script obviously wanted to cross the story of heroes and beauties depicted in Huo Dongjun's first film, so he thought of the collision between the East and the West, the bodyguard of a socialist country and the foreign minister of a capitalist country, this is indeed a very good idea, so that two people have to face common difficulties due to the difference between the protected and protected living environment, but they have to face common difficulties, the script is full of creativity, Sean Connery, a veteran Hollywood star, In this play, he played a foreign minister, a priest who tried to make Chiba Shinichi and Huo Dongjun find spiritual comfort, but Xu Zhengyang, played by Huo Dongjun, lost his luster in comparison, the tough and chic bodyguard looks more suitable for a beauty, if you stand next to a powerful person in a high position, the bodyguard can only be a bodyguard, and will not have a chance to become a hero again, because the other party will steal the limelight, the only advantage of this movie is that it is a more exciting fight than the previous play, It is also these fight scenes that support me not to leave the table halfway, a script with depth, because the creator takes it for granted, and it is reduced to a Hollywood commercial film that relies on action scenes and plot to attract people. - "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard 2, a Hollywood-style "Hero and Priest" far from the qualified line
Shi Qibiao's film review in the "Ming Pao Evening News" described this movie like this, if Shi Qi sets the tone of the review of the next movie, then basically other film critics have the same opinion as him.
But this time, Lin Hanxun, a column film critic of "Oriental Daily", has a completely different opinion from Shi Qi, and the title of his film review is "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard 2: A Real Police and Bandit Film with Ice and Fire":
"McDonald's Bear, the 25 million cost of "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard 200,000 Urgent", in my opinion, is to tell the Hong Kong film industry, the standard of a high-quality commercial film, someone is responsible for acting with their eyes, telling you the strength of the actors in this drama and competing for various actor awards, such as Chiba Shinichi and Sean Connery, someone is responsible for acting with action, so that the audience feels that the scene is worth the ticket price, such as Huo Dongjun's bodyguard image, someone is responsible for dressing up the beautiful girl to ensure that young people will not be boring, such as the Japanese female killer, Yang Qian'er, Xu Zhengyang. This is a very fast-paced fashion action movie, the action scenes are dizzying, if the action picture of the first "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard" can hit A, then the action picture of this "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard 2" can already be called a lot of action movies, such as some of Cheng Long's works, will make people feel that the plot is in the service of action, but this drama is just right, while maintaining the plot, it makes people feel that those hearty fights do not dominate the crowd and shake the story itself, of course, The main reason why I can do it just right, I think it's the acting skills of Sean Connery and Chiba Shinichi, maybe the two of them made an appointment with Huo Dongjun, they are responsible for maintaining the smoothness of the plot, Huo Dongjun is responsible for hitting the audience's attention with action scenes, the most curious question I am now is, the best action director at this year's Academy Awards, whether Yuan Kui will win the award with the Spring Festival file "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard", or will he rely on this sequel to win the award, I don't think there is a third choice, there is no doubt about it, This movie is the most rewarding commercial action movie of the year I've ever seen. ”
There are many comments such as criticism and praise, most of the praise is Lin Hanxun's style, the whole movie is fast-paced, allowing the audience to sit from beginning to end, hearty, as for criticism, no matter how sharp the comments are, no one dares to deny the action scenes of this movie, at most learn from Shi Qi, from Huo Dongjun, roughly like the cold bodyguard image in the first part was covered by Sean Connery and Chiba Shinichi in the second part.
Fortunately, those film critics can't really represent the audience, Golden Harvest Cinema was released for three days, "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard 200,000 Urgent" won more than 5.1 million box office, and Princess Jin took the initiative to contact Yongsheng on the fourth day, and postponed the "Vinegar Husband" directed by Huang Baiming in the New Art City, and wanted to rehearse "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard 2" with Golden Harvest in the Mid-Autumn Festival, the idea of the Golden Princess Cinema is very simple, the Mid-Autumn Festival Golden Princess Cinema has no big production to be released, so it is better to take advantage of this popular movie to join forces with Golden Harvest to block Debao in the Mid-Autumn Festival, Let's take advantage of Debao's limelight, after all, Debao's "Rich and Powerful" in the Spring Festival and "Autumn Fairy Tale" in the summer are too popular.
At this time, double-line townhouses are no longer news, and the films directed by Hong Tibao have played double-line townhouses many times, first on the Golden Harvest line, if the box office skyrockets, contact the other two theaters, which theater can move out of the schedule to be screened, but take the initiative to find other theaters, the proportion will naturally be lower, and the Golden Princess's Mecca took the initiative to contact Yongsheng, which is different.
Golden Harvest does not support or object to the Golden Princess's Mid-Autumn Festival file and her co-starring "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard 200,000 Urgent", because this movie was released first on the Golden Harvest line, and fans will be used to coming to Golden Harvest's cinemas to watch this drama, and the attendance rate is Golden Harvest's advantage, and Golden Harvest really wants to suppress the limelight of Debao, who has the last laugh in this year's Spring Festival and summer holidays.
There is one more theater line to schedule films, and there are only two movies in the three major theaters in Hong Kong in the entire Mid-Autumn Festival, Golden Harvest and Golden Princess teamed up to arrange "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard 2", and Debao Cinema released the comedy "Beautiful Man" with the theme of urban love, directed by Jiang David, Zheng Yuling, Wu Yaohan, Shen Dianbian, Dong Biao and other "Rich and Powerful" people starring, trying to replicate the feat of "Rich and Powerful" during the Spring Festival.
It's a pity that under the double-line bombardment of Golden Harvest and Golden Princess, "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard 200,000 Urgent" was released for a week and won 16 million box office, and even the Golden Harvest line alone collected 13 million in a single week, which is comparable to Cheng Long's movie box office, Golden Princess temporarily scheduled the film, and also won the box office figure of 3 million in three days after its release, and continued to rise, while "Beautiful Man" only won 4 million box office in a week after its release.
The Golden Harvest line was released for two weeks and won 23 million box office, and the Golden Princess Cinema was released on the 10th day and won more than 9 million box office.
In two weeks, Yongsheng's "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard 200,000 Urgent" reached nearly 33 million in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the 31 million box office of Cheng Long's "A1+ Sequel" in the summer vacation was only a slight gap from the 35 million box office of the Spring Festival file "Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother: God Arms".
Golden Princess was released in theaters for ten days, and after blocking Debao from avoiding Golden Harvest, she began to release Xinyicheng's own filmed vinegar husband.
The Golden Harvest Cinema Line began to reduce the number of shows of "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard 2" in the third week, and it was completely completed after three weeks of release, and the box office of Golden Harvest Cinema reported 28 million in three weeks.
The total box office of the two-line joint screening reached 37.8 million Hong Kong dollars, successfully breaking the box office of "The True Color of Heroes" released in the Mid-Autumn Festival last year and becoming the first Hong Kong film box office
As soon as the box office statistics of Golden Harvest Cinemas came out, Zou Wenhuai's first action was to call the branch in the United States: "Report the Hong Kong box office statistics and the number of screens to American businessmen, and contact the theater to release "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard 200,000 Urgent", 3 million US dollars, if I don't double the money this time, it will be me Zou Wenhuai who is blind
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