One of the highlights: the theme-mutant theme is on the screen for the first time. "City Alert" attracted a lot of attention before it was released, because the mutant theme has not been touched in China's films. This is indeed an innovation of China's movies and a revolution of action movies. Wonderful stills Although Hollywood has turned the mutant theme into the most popular movie type in the world; But for China movies, mutants are still freshmen. The plot of City Alert skillfully uses World War II to solve the basic problem of the mutant system in China's films-biochemical experiments. An unfinished biochemical experiment triggered a mutant attack decades later, and the whole city of Hong Kong was on alert. The origin of such a China film mutant is easy for everyone to accept, and at the same time, it also gives the global mutant territory and makes up the vast oriental territory. Aspect 2: Special effects-Hollywood action blockbusters. Domestic "City Watch" is a special effects film with an investment of 654.38 billion yuan, but it has generated hundreds of millions of dollars in Hollywood. Recently, the media who have enjoyed the film through film screening have praised it. "The special effects action scene of City Alert is explosive enough and worth looking forward to." Zou Zhaolong, a famous star who came back from Hollywood, even said, "If you invest in Chen Musheng to direct Hollywood, you can make a better film than Spielberg." Chen Musheng is a pioneer director of action movies in China. He contributes a high-quality action film to China movies almost every year. His fierce street racing and suffocating fierce fighting have become the symbols of his style, and every film is pursuing new attempts and breakthroughs. Last year, Chen Musheng's "Keep Call" made a Hollywood blockbuster with a box office of 45 million RMB. This time, in City Alert, director Chen Musheng invested 654.38 billion RMB for the first time, and 70 million RMB for special effects. The thrilling car chase, the thrilling blasting scene, the sudden collapse of the sky and the collapse of buildings in the urban catastrophe are breathtaking. Chen Musheng has always been good at blasting, and this time he got an unprecedented play and a major breakthrough in City Alert. The 100 million yuan "super-explosive special effects movie" is based on facts. From the beginning, Aaron Kwok, Zou Zhaolong and others mistakenly entered the Japanese Institute of Biochemistry, which has been buried for many years. The cave was blown to powder and the blasting drama appeared. In the second half, Aaron Kwok, which has not fully stimulated the potential of variation, played against Zou Zhaolong, which has entered the second stage of variation, and the blasting scene was even more shocking. Aspect 3: modeling-the scary appearance of variants. As we all know, the protagonist in the action drama "Watching the City" is a mutant, with a ferocious image, scary shape and very realistic. To this end, director Chen Musheng specially invited a Thai team to make makeup modeling in Hollywood, which has top international makeup modeling level stills. Many scenes in the movie "City Alert" pay attention to detail amplification, such as Aaron Kwok and Zou Zhaolong, whose faces are covered with blue veins, their eyes are bloodshot and their pupils are dilated, which is impressive. Zou Zhaolong, who shoulders the heavy responsibility of displaying special effects of variants, started as a circus man, began to lose his hair after inhaling poisonous gas, and finally became a violent muscular man with prominent veins and long nails on his fingers. Every stage of his physical changes is carefully displayed. Director Chen Musheng said: "The variant modeling of the film City Alert is a meticulous work. We only need five makeup artists to form a mutant. If there are five mutants in a scene, then more than twenty makeup artists will be used in a scene. So the scene is very complicated. " Aspect 4: China Kung Fu-When the mutant played China Kung Fu, Ma Yucheng, a Hong Kong martial arts finger, integrated the traditional martial arts of China into the mutant of Guarding the City, creating the mutant's flexible movements, which changed the traditional routines such as Taiji, Sanda, Fox Boxing, Manta Boxing, Nine-section Whip, Acupoint and Light Skill. In fact, the mutants in City Alert were ordinary urbanites before the mutation. Aaron Kwok is just a circus clown. The growth process of each character from a normal person to a "kung fu master" is also the killer of the film to catch the audience's eye and guide the audience into the play step by step. Some media once compared City Watcher to China's version of Wolverine, but director Chen Musheng didn't think so. "Most of the action scenes in Wolverine rely on special effects, and our drama is really performed by actors. His fists and feet are made with China Kung Fu, such as Jason Wu's nine-knot whip and Tai Chi, just as Hollywood doesn't shoot these elements. " Aspect 5: human nature-good, evil, beauty and ugliness, shocking you or touching you. It is particularly worth mentioning that, compared with the films before Chen Musheng, The City Watcher has a deeper discussion of human nature. In Chen Musheng's previous works, the good guys and bad guys are all heavy facets, Jackie Chan and other action superstars are always good policemen of justice, and the bad guys are exposed as soon as they appear. In City Alert, the variation of human nature is also one of the highlights of the film. In the film, Zou Zhao's stills, dragons and other mutants finally came together, but in the initial city life, they were all colleagues of a circus, and occasionally there were some small competitions at work. As for why everyone develops in different directions after being poisoned by biochemical gases, it is also because of the different nature of an "inner heart", different understanding of fame and fortune, and different pursuit of success in life. Shu Qi's role in City Alert is also worth discussing. Shu Qi played a "bad woman" who kept taking advantage of a man's boss, and even Aaron Kwok, who was selfless to her, didn't let go until her conscience was discovered; Jason Wu and Zhang Jingchu are also controversial "best partners". Jason Wu is ruthless, desperate for success, and even willing to give up his lover's wish. In short, good and bad, good and evil, sadness and joy, shock and emotion ... these rare literary and dramatic elements are intertwined in Chen Musheng's works, which touched many audiences. Aspect 6: Role Starring Challenge Acting Aaron Kwok has been a popular "King of Heaven" for more than 20 years, and her dancing skills are superb. In this movie, "Dancing Skills" is integrated into China Kung Fu, and he plays a super hero. Aaron Kwok's rich body language in front of the camera is impressive. Director Chen Musheng also praised Aaron Kwok's performance: "He worked very hard. He made a lot of efforts in this film and made great progress in martial arts. I think he has practiced dancing, so his dynamic expression is very easy for him to apply to martial arts. We didn't expect the effect to be so good. " The bad woman played by Shu Qi finally returned to the good nature, chose to change and make up, and saved the possible tragedy. In fact, this "bad woman" can't be annoying, but respects her courage. Zhang Jingchu was recently hailed as a "film model worker" in the summer file. From the autumn fragrance in Tong Pak Hu Dian Qiu Xiang 2, to Deng Fang in Tangshan Earthquake, and to the police in Watching the City this time, the only constant behind these changes is that the role played by Zhang Jingchu is open-minded and kind in nature. In the film, Zhang Jingchu also changed the image of a lady, put on capable leggings, wrist guards and tied her hair, and became a woman with high martial arts, which made people sincerely admire. Jason Wu also made a bold breakthrough and challenge in City Alert, which can let the audience see the gentle side of Iron Man. Although the emotional scenes in his films are a little blunt compared with other senior actors, at least the audience can see the breakthrough and improvement of this kung fu actor's acting skills.