"bodyguards and assassins" has a somewhat bizarre assumption, that is, Sun Wen's visit to Hong Kong, which should be a covert operation, must be known to the whole city, even accurate to the time when Sun Yat-sen landed, and it must last for an hour from landing to leaving Hong Kong. This hour is to use flesh and blood to resist the attack of the Qing army hawks and dogs. All this seems to be set up to stipulate the death outcome of the main characters. What is magnified here is the way of death, and what is ignored is the meaning of death. Every death is very refreshing. In the end, it seems that the purpose of all this exaggeration is to make the audience forget an important premise, that is, these sacrifices could have been avoided. Of course, unnecessary sacrifice can also bring tragic power and even deeper thinking, such as "Saving Private Ryan", whether it is necessary to pay more to save a person's life, and finally such thinking can be extended to the human theme of the film. Bodyguards and assassins does not provide such a space for the sublimation of the theme. At the end of the film, the subtitles list a series of uprisings planned by the revolutionary party after the assassination, until the final Revolution of 1911. This is to give these people a sense of their own sacrifice, but it is unconvincing. Despite shouting a lot of revolutionary slogans, the technical mistakes caused by the absurd assumption that the artificial axe chisel marks are too heavy still make bodyguards and assassins a superficial game in essence.