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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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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