Film Name: 误判 / The Prosecutor / Misjudgement
To be honest, before watching “The Prosecutor”, I really didn’t pay attention to who the director of this film is, until the end of the film appeared a big “Donnie Yen”, I realized that this is Dan’s self-directed works.
Although Donnie Yen has been a director in the past, “The Prosecutor” is obviously more suitable to be regarded as his work of transformation, not only because the film’s literary drama has put in a lot of effort, not inferior to the martial arts drama, but also because of the film’s characters and plots, all added to his thoughts on action films and identity change.
In the movie, Huo Zihao left his post as a police officer and became a prosecutor, and outside the movie, Donnie Yen began to take a break from his role as an action actor to try out more possibilities in movie making.
I have to say, this “Judge with a knife” story image, really gives people a refreshing feeling, a movie, double experience, worth it.
[Friendly reminder: there will be spoilers below].
Although “The Prosecutor” part of the literature is great, but this does not mean that the martial arts scene fell behind, rushed to the action scene to the audience can rest assured to see, the fight scene is still a large amount of tube full.
In fact, I’ve always felt that Donnie Yen’s fashion films have the best fight scenes, and “The Prosecutor” has reaffirmed my thoughts.
There are several action scenes in the movie that are worth talking about, such as the opening scene when the police force attacked the bandits, the use of first-person perspective, so that the audience to experience the gunfight and physical combat up close and personal, but also such as street encounters + alley battles, the main a melee in the fight for a chance of survival.
And I noticed that the action sequences in “The Prosecutor” are increasing in size, with scenes, props, moves, and even the number of opponents constantly changing and increasing.
Take the bar rooftop that group fight scene, Huo Zihao to one against a hundred itself is very watchable (from fight four to fight ten to fight hundreds, Ye master call back has not), the film also arranged for him to light table, tables, chairs, poles and other props as a limb derivation, which and Jackie Chan biased comedy to the action style is different, Donnie Yen fight obviously more biased combat.
There is also the final battle on the subway in the last scene, but also shot a rare sense of high class.
In this scene, Huo Zihao’s priority is to send Chen Guo Rong alive to the court, so there are bound to be some limitations, coupled with the operation of the subway itself is a relatively closed and shaky environment, more Huo Zihao’s counterattacks added a lot of difficulty.
Passengers fleeing in fear, hidden enemies, light and shadow, and dangerous killings together form the climax of this well-deserved scene.
“The Prosecutor” can fight beautifully, in addition to its solid foundation of action, the literary and martial arts ‘legal version of Ip Man’ character design also contributes a lot – Huo Zihao this character’s distinctive feature is of course able to fight, but his real attraction is that he is not inferior to the boxers. But the real attraction of his character is that he is not inferior to fists and feet of the mouth, as well as the persistence of the sense of justice.
After the middle-aged Huo Zihao came to the Department of Justice from the police force, many of his past experiences are no longer useful, in fact, he had to start from scratch like a young man who had just joined the profession. …… As a result, when he took his first case, he made a “joke” that seemed to be funny, but actually made people laugh out loud. “The first case is the first case in the world.
Ma Jiajie courier drug case, there is evidence, there is a guilty plea, there is an agreement, each link does not have any problem, the prosecution and defense and the judge can leave work early, all happy, but Huo Zihao want to break the pot to ask the end.
I found it funny at first. Apart from the fact that Huo Zihao, as the prosecutor, always speaks for the defense, it’s also because his inexperience is met with a powerful “workplace philosophy”. Outside of the court, Ou Pak Man and Lee Sze Man, inside of the court, Ah Bao, Yang Guan, Judge Xu, etc., all of them teach Huo Zihao to do things in accordance with the efficiency and routines.
These words of experience seem to be fine, good for you, good for me, good for everyone, but what is actually damaged is the truth and justice.
As the story progresses, the audience will feel less and less relaxed, replaced by heaviness and intolerance – because of Huo Zihao’s “ill-advised” efforts to get to the bottom of the matter and pursue the truth, the underhanded tactics of the criminal syndicate and the procedural loopholes of the judicial system are constantly exposed! The Prosecutor’s Prosecution Service (PPS) is a small drug transportation case that hides too many sins, selfish desires, grievances, and injustices.
This is exactly where “The Prosecutor” excels in its literary drama, which, like the martial arts drama, follows the principle of going from the shallow to the deep and progressing step by step, spreading out the content step by step, and pursuing justice with the same obsessive spirit.
Huo Zihao’s “idealism” is not laughable; on the contrary, his stubbornness will make all lawyers who have forgotten their principles and beginnings feel admiration and even shame.
Late in the movie, Bao Ding and other prosecutors have been infected by the real “King of Volume” Huo Zihao, into the excavation of the case, even has been completely smoothed out the edges of the Yang Tieli, were stirred up a long time blood (Donnie Yen and Wu Zhenyu that close to the nonsense of the fight, accidentally a bit of a good knock ah).
Combined with Huo Zihao and Donnie Yen outside the theater, will more and more feel that “The Prosecutor” design is ingenious.
Fok Tze Ho left the police force, studied for many years to become a prosecutor, some people think that he was hurt by the difficulties of law enforcement, and turned to a more leisurely job ……, but in fact, Fok Tze Ho is because his colleagues desperately to catch criminals were not convicted, and continue to get away with it, and thus realized that catching is only the first step in the work of justice, and he would like to take a step forward to guard the last watch, so that the guilty are tried and punished and the innocent are cleared.
Donnie Yen is now over 60 years old, in Chinese action movies to occupy a seat at the same time, but also thinking about many creative issues …… action movies, although there have always been a number of fixed fans, but in the wider audience evaluation, but always do not get too much praise, the main reason is that most of the action movies are simple or even simple plot, is not easy to hold up that The main reason is that most of the action movies have simple or even simple plots, and it is not easy to hold up those few hours, and he wants to use “The Prosecutor” to make an attempt to do both martial arts and literature.
In addition, Donnie Yen also used Huo Zihao’s mouth in the movie to tell another reason for the transition: he was too old to fight.
We will smile at the same time, will also admit that this time “The Prosecutor” really come up with something real: to break the darkness need to have violent fists, but also need to have the appropriate procedures, and when the procedures can not keep up, but also need to have a fist escort, the two are not contradictory, but the means of each other.
It’s safe to say that “The Prosecutor” is a good start for Donnie Yen in the future. 60 is the right age to start over, right?
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