去年8月，陈木胜导演因鼻咽癌而离世，时年58岁，而《怒火·重案》则成了他最后谢幕的遗作。

对于喜欢港片的观众而言，陈木胜和他的电影作品绝对是深入人心的存在。比如1990年，当时29岁的陈木胜首次独立执导、刘德华主演的《天若有情》，其中的多个片段都已成为影史经典。又如《冲锋队之怒火街头》、《新警察故事》、《男儿本色》、《扫毒》等一系列警匪动作片，展现出了陈木胜对于硬碰硬的枪战、街头追逐、爆破场面的超强把控力。

有人说，“陈木胜是吴宇森后动作场面做得最好的香港导演。”确实，放眼整个华语地区，陈木胜在动作片领域绝对算得上处在“第一梯队”。

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上部 总体来说结构还可以，情节也可以，该卖点白花花的肉也不吝啬，该有的笑料的还可以！整人者被人整情节设置其实很讨巧。说道下部就根本不用存在，傻出天际了，没文化没常识真的让人愤怒了！真的看不下去了尤其那啥屯里大学！真的尴尬让人怀疑导演，编剧，演员，包括群演， 都没进过大学，太尬了，像 精神病疗养院似的一帮二逼在硬演傻逼戏！！

Two 2019 feature debuts from aspiring filmmakers that hold fast our zeitgeist by putting a female character in the dead center. Kitty Green’s THE ASSISTANT is exclusively lensed from our titular heroine’s perspective to cast a startling light on a salient social issue in the wake of the notorious Weinstein effect; meanwhile, Carlo Mirabella-Davis’ SWALLOW, doggedly builds up a reductive dissection of a young, gravid bride’s eerie disintegration, by dint of uncomfortable body horror tropes to reify her pica affliction.

Adhering to her technique developed as a documentarian, Green adopts an uncharacteristic angle to tackle her unsavory subject matter. In THE ASSISTANT, Garner plays Jane, a junior assistant in an unspecified NYC film production company, and the film takes place during her overlong working hours on a hectic Monday. We watch her being picked up by a limousine to work long before daybreak, and follow her in clerical drudgery, see the big shots from her peripheral vision and hear things only within her earshot. By doing that, Green risks narrative clarity and leaves the scandalous skinny in connotation or off-screen, consequently the film rather invites an immediate revisit to suss the implications of every casual dialogue and throwaway joke, and for better to piece together what is going on.

Green’s strategy, not audience-friendly, but totally chimes in with Jane’s grunt-level existence in the company, but felicitously, do we really need to see those sordid goings-on with our own eyes? We shall all be thankful to Green for being so considerate in her approach, because such a canker, condoned systemically by the industry and beyond is better limned as this immaterial, omnipresent force of vileness, penetrating every couch and behind every closed doors in every office and hotel room, it is everywhere therefore it must be put paid to.

Carrying the entire film on her slender shoulders, Garner exhibits strenuous stamina and restrained body language as the doormat (Jane is a sponge absorbent of the negative outpourings of the boss’ wife) and the dogsbody (she is virtually invisible in front of her superiors and other colleagues), even the two male assistants callously exploit her newness (only being there for 5 weeks), or maybe also because she is a she, and let her bear the brunt of blame and verbal abuse. Yet, in her position, she has no right to say otherwise.

Jane aspires to be a producer, and she knows all too well that she must pay her dues and turn a blind eye on the seedy matters, if she wants to make it. But on the off chance when that actually happens, she will have already become one of the silent connivers in that toxic working environment (implied by the unseen boss’s sinister motivation). Moreover, she should considered herself lucky, according to the head of Human Resources (Macfadyen), simply because “you are not his type”, it’s all so reassuring! Macfadyen has that peculiar air of faux-earnestness, mixed with veiled hubris, to express the warped normalcy as if it is the most commonplace words to utter, whereas Garner is so utterly disconcerted and anguished in her botched worm-will-turn rebel, their exchange is the crescendo of this gritty film.

Incredibly, THE ASSISTANT plays up the working place’s drabness, impersonality and functional symmetry to keep us absorbed with its coded message. However, SWALLOW is so stunning on the eye level, the young couple, Hunter and Richie Conrad (Bennett and Stowell) are gorgeous, their affluent, minimalistic upstate NYC residence with a killer view, is often filtered through prismatic hues to emphasize the magic power of money.

But what happens inside is far less majestic, Hunter, hailed from a lower class, is maladaptive to her new ascendancy as the cinderella, who has a bun in the oven and develops an anomalous appetite for inedible things (including some small sharp objects, those swallow scenes are fastidiously arranged, and not for the squeamish). Does she subconsciously want to lose the baby? and why is that? A thought never occurs to our prince charm Richie, instead, his family hires a burly minder Luay (Nakli), a Syrian immigrant, to keep an eye on her minute by minute to forestall any self-inflict harm, solely for the safety of their precious progeny.

If the plot is piled up with unmitigated clichés (cruel, senseless rich people, good-hearted immigrants, a fable of perfect family of origin, the psychological manipulation of negging and nonpology, the list goes on and on…) and Mirabella-Davis might be a lousy fabulist, what gives vitality to SWALLOW, besides Katelin Arizmendi’s stylish cinematography, is Bennett’s metamorphic performance. A frail flower distressed by her parentage (the cat will be let out of the bag later) and conjugal negligence, Bennett, who looks like a poor girl’s Jennifer Lawrence, grandly inhabits Hunter’s compulsion, disorientation and exasperation with such astonishing finesses, one cannot take eyes off her. Even when we cannot relate to Hunter’s weird condition, we are compulsively intrigued by Bennett’s nuanced delivery and delicate mannerism, hoping some deus ex machina can materialize to save her.

Eventually, Mirabella-Davis grants Hunter a touching closure (Denis O’Hare’s brilliant cameo is exactly what the doctor ordered, he can proficiently pull off a complicated emotional range in meager minutes, though on paper, the reconciliation is still a mawkish cliché) and the final shot statically looking at a lady’s room with people come and go writ large the film's emboldened stance: pro-life and pro-woman.

When all is said and done, both THE ASSISTANT and SWALLOW are promising works well wrought by their emergent creators, together, they paint a vivid picture of the wrongs (in the working place or in one’s own home) inflicted upon women by faulty, haughty, selfish men, but they are not just reproachful to the stronger sex, their artistry underlies more hope in women’s resilience, Jane might walk the plank the next day, she can at least have peace with herself and knows better of her goals, as for Hunter, starts anew and puts aside a failed marriage, together with her psychogenic malady, scrumptious comestibles are beckoning and cinderella can get stuffed!

referential entries: Darren Aronofsky’s MOTHER! (2017, 6.6/10); Cory Finley’s THOROUGHBRED (2017, 6.5/10); Leigh Whannell’s THE INVISIBLE MAN (2020, 6.9/10).

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完全就是乱扯，星华怎么就有小宇宙，艾欧里亚为什么带走她为啥又把星矢留在那里，古拉德这个人物起到了多大作用，这是圣斗士，又不是美国科幻片，主题曲还是英语，一点都不带感，本来是日本的IP就用原来的歌多好，黑暗圣斗士又成古拉德造的，那要雅典娜有何用，说到雅典娜也是人设崩塌，圣衣造型比欧米伽还差，头盔怎么就成了胸前的一个装饰品，而且圣衣造型还不还原，看打斗就像看一堆手办打架一样，对于原著进行大量改动，本来打了10多集的黄金圣衣争夺战整得只打了两集，卡西欧士又穿上黑暗圣衣？打三个黑暗圣斗士还要打半天，拖沓剧情，银河在地下打，特别是紫龙和星矢，那打得简直放了一个太平洋，本来是一个很燃的剧情，结果就打了几分钟草草了事，3D建模就更差，还好莱坞，这水平还能拿的出手，建模还不如圣斗士星矢游戏，沙加连个正脸都不给气死人，瞬的变性都不想吐槽了，本来圣斗士手能划过天空，脚能撕裂大地，以后怕是要成圣斗士手撕飞机，脚踢坦克，还不如和中国合作做，给美国简直就是毁原著，十二宫骑士这个剧情和标题都没有关系，真不知道导演和监督是干嘛的，有原创不是错，但是你这个原创还不如不创，本来圣斗士现在没有那么火，就不应该用剧情来吸引观众，但是这个其他方面还更不行，好歹应该给到视觉上一个冲击，毕竟是3D，但就这点都不能吸引眼球，真是属于浪费，个人观点，仅供参考