? To put it in a fashionable way, this is called "sustainable development".
"It's scary for Jing Wong to get serious!" This is my first feeling after watching Chasing the Dragon. After all, after storm riders in Macau, Jing Wong's films suffered an unprecedented crisis of bad reviews, but after his sincere masterpiece Black and White Labyrinth didn't set off a wave at the box office, it led to the remake of "Chasing the Dragon" from "Lame Howe" and "Mayor", which hit the National Day archives at the end of August, and when faced with team blockbusters such as Xiaogang Feng, Jackie Chan, Dapeng and Mahua FunAge, people were not optimistic about the prospects.
I didn't expect directors Jing Wong and Jason Kwan Chi-Yiu to hand over a more biting, darker and overbearing answer sheet than Big Shanghai. There are not only two fierce gangsters, but also realistic gun battles and hand-to-hand combat, which are painstakingly seen everywhere in photography, music, art design and editing. A group of Hong Kong old opera bones give wonderful performances, telling the story of rules, brotherhood, wealth and danger, and epic ambitions are shifting in troubled times, telling the changes of the times and the impermanence of fate.
Although "Chasing the Dragon" is a very pertinent work in terms of style, blueprint and acting skills, the film has not been able to capture the darkness and ugliness of human nature in a deeper level, but only stayed in a self-proclaimed pattern of "life and death, wealth in the sky", which undoubtedly makes the film look and feel not much different from many Hong Kong's consistent police films. At the same time, from the middle, the film