Another fun story with actors we know
Wang Baoqiang and Liu Haoran are at it again, solving a murder while being goofy. Since they are not playing Tang Ren and Qin Feng, they are allowed to change up their roles a bit. Wang’s A Gui is much more serious, focused and skilled than Tang Ren. Lin’s Qin Fu is not the magic genius, and more an average person. This allows the story to be more balanced between them, with each bringing skills and insight, while also allowing both to be funny at times. The supporting actors are all fun characters and have parts to play. Chow Yun Fat is great. John Cusack plays the villain well.The story itself is fine, trying to tell the murder story, while also trying to tell the story of the plight of Chinese immigrants. The costumes and production are very well done. A lot of time and money was spent to make it look really good, I felt the story was trying to do too much. They have multiple crimes, lots of tragic back stories, the anti-Qing movement, “the real villain is racism”, etc. The movie tries to say a lot, probably too much to be really effective as a murder mystery or social commentary.
The best part is the time change has allowed the main actors to play different characters in a similar story. It is a nice shack up which will hopefully keep the series from becoming stale.
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A fun watch with a traditional Chinese ending
Go see this movie!This movie was in enjoyable to watch. The story starts very creatively and it’s really nice to see how creative they were with the different dreamworld. Lots of computer generated action and events, but to a high-quality the actors all do a great job the characters have realistic, chemistry, and good character development. It is a gripping story that starts out fun and it becomes very serious. The traditional Chinese ending is not bad, but I felt undercuts the creativity of the earlier part of the story. The end is very good, very well acted and emotional. As a long time movie watcher though. I give more points for not falling into tropes.
Go see this morning and enjoy the Chinese industry. I keep making creative movies like this.
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Same great cast, same story
Pegasus three brings back all the characters that we loved and maybe some extras that not everyone have seen. The actors all do a great job and the main group have great chemistry together. This feels like a reward movie for people who have watched all three movies and the TV series. The production quality is top-notch as always. Really shows off the technology of the cars and the complexities of rally racing.The downside is, it’s the same story as the first and second movie. Down to the same story beats, and if I sat down, maybe at the same point in the movie. There was a potential to do a lot more by having a team of four racers instead of two, and showing the characters as the underdogs against the world. Unfortunately, the story went back to “losers” with no money, one car, evil people in power trying to sabotage them.
Also, my spouse was really upset about the lack of female cast. The TV series did a good job of correcting this and adds to a feeling that the characters have no growth from where they ended the second movie.
It is still a good movie, but does not have the spirit of the second movie. However, it will not have the rewatch level of the second movie.
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Hilarious movie
Did you like Sean at the Dead or Hot Fuzz? This is their Chinese cousin. And he’s just as good.But the water pipes is a really fun, enjoyable comedy that starts with a simple premise and a few characters, as the story progresses the story becomes more ridiculous and absurd us, and they add more characters. Each character add more to the story and the absurdity is hilarious while not breaking the reality of the world. The actors all do an incredible job the story sticks together and you’re so focused on what the characters are doing you don’t spend time pointing out how this is absurd or ridiculous. Meaning it’s in grossing story. My spouse and I spent most of the movie, laughing out loud.
See this movie.
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Starts strong, ends all right
Are You Safe starts with a strong concept and is pretty focused, solving cyber crimes. Then it turns into a conspiracy and relationship drama where villains come back for the dead, new villain comes kind of from no where and everyone wants revenge. There are also around 6 villains out to get the Heroes in the show. The acting is pretty good but the show falls into repeating the pattern of Heroes get success, villain tricks them, heroes are now at their lowest, then repeat. The production value is also pretty good and it is shot well.It is a nice show to watch because of the shorter length so episode move quickly, it not as deep as I would like them to be, it is clear the writers started with news in the headlines, and once those ran out, went for soap opera storylines.
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This is a really enjoyable series
You should watch both movies first.This was a really well done show. The acting is well really good. And the characters act like normal people in a bizarre situation. They don’t act like drama tv characters but how a person would react. They get upset when they should be upset and reconcile how people would do it.
The show is also really good about showing cars doing real racing and not CGI for everything. Most of the show is practical which helps.
This first half of the first episode is rough (not the best acting, rushing the plot of the movie) but ends really well.
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