Regarding the movie "Vanguard", I believe that many filmmakers have analyzed and interpreted it from the aspects of action, technology, special effects, etc.

Some people say it is good or bad. Some people say this is another emotional movie that overdrafts "Jackie Chan".

This statement is correct or not, because I did go to see this movie because of Jackie Chan, but the reason for watching Jackie Chan was because I wanted to see a "Hong Kong-style martial arts movie."

Jackie Chan cannot represent all "Hong Kong-style martial arts movies", but he can be a unique existence among "martial arts movies".

The martial arts actors born in the 1950s at the same time as him, such as Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, Liu Jiahui, Lin Zhengying, Gao Fei, etc., have all ceased their activities. On the other hand, those who were born a few years later than them have Nowadays, apart from Yue Song and Donnie Yen, there are really not many martial arts stars who dare to say that they are pure martial arts actors.

It’s not that there are no successors, but that the cost-effectiveness of being a martial arts actor is too low.

Just like a famous saying nowadays, "You can obviously rely on your face to make a living, so why should you rely on your strength."

There is a very intuitive phenomenon. To illustrate this problem, in our eyes, former martial arts stars are all tough guys, not to mention muscles. It is impossible to complete those difficult moves with a body of fat.

Apart from the difficulty of those martial arts movements, there are also corresponding dangers.

There are too many dangerous cases, so I won’t list them all. Jackie Chan’s acting career alone has been ruined more than once.

This brings us to the famous saying before, "You can obviously rely on your face to make a living, so why should you rely on your strength."

Since you have to rely on your face to make a living, it is impossible to be like Jackie Chan. The martial arts stars of that generation worked so hard to practice their moves for filming, and it would be a huge loss if they accidentally got something wrong with their faces.

And this creates a vicious circle.

Martial arts stars do not rely on their faces, but on their skills and movements.

Frankly speaking, Jackie Chan is not handsome. Compared with veteran artists such as Andy Lau and Ti Lung, he can really be considered unattractive.

The reason why martial arts stars like Jackie Chan are loved by everyone is because of their skills, and what the audience pays for is their unconstrained action scenes.

As mentioned above, today's artists are no longer willing to take risks to shoot martial arts scenes. Difficult actions are all done with special effects and substitutes, so it is impossible to have A new martial arts superstar is born.

To be honest, I used to long for Wang Baoqiang to represent the new generation of artists to take over the big baton of martial arts movies, but unfortunately, Wang Baoqiang's acting career is getting further and further away.

This has nothing to do with right or wrong. Wang Baoqiang has indeed found a new way to act.

But it is precisely because of the decline of martial arts movies that the persistence of Jackie Chan is further highlighted.

To be honest, when I watch Jackie Chan’s movies, including this one, “Vanguard,” I can’t help but feel depressed.

Jackie Chan said something like this in the documentary, "Some of the moves I did, young people can't do, but if you say I can't do many of the moves I did before, for example, jumping out of the window If I jump down, I might have to lay down a mat because my knees can’t bear it.”

This sentence conveys a deep sense of loss and a sense of a hero’s twilight years.

Because there are still many action shots of Jackie Chan in the movie, such as the shots where he gets on the car, hooks a gun with one foot, and speeds on a speedboat, Jackie Chan's figure is obviously "blunt".

This is a fact that cannot be changed. The age gap cannot be overcome.

Actually, I have been thinking about a question. It is impossible for Jackie Chan not to know what the action movies he has made over the years are like. Low box office and low reputation have become the norm. When did it start?

Maybe "Kung Fu Yoga".

But why does Jackie Chan continue to release action movies year after year?

Many people say that Jackie Chan does not accept old age, but in my opinion, Jackie Chan is the real one. He just wants to continue martial arts movies.

For us, martial arts movies are just a genre, but for Jackie Chan, "martial arts" is a career that he has dedicated his life to.

Over the years, I have always heard that when watching Jackie Chan's martial arts movies, one is less than the next. Even if the final results of Jackie Chan's movies are not satisfactory, there will still be audiences paying for his next movie.

In the end, the reason is not for Jackie Chan, but for "martial arts movies".