"Apostle Walker 2" appeared as a prequel to "Apostle Walker". Although the plot is inextricably linked, the style and rhythm of painting are quite different.
The gunpowder-scented "Apostle Walker" has a tight rhythm and danger, but the picture of "Apostle Walker 2" is a colorful LOMO filter style, and the beginning of each episode has a philosophical motto as an introduction, attracting At the same time as the old audience, the freehand style and literary style have also suffocated the appetite of the youth.
This is not the first time that TVB has developed a derivative development based on "Apostle Walker". After "Apostle Walker" triggered a ratings frenzy in 2014, the big movie of the same name was staged in 2016, and the sequel has recently been in full swing in major theaters. show. In addition to the fact that the plot of the movie itself cannot be studied in detail, the relationship between the movie and the series is also a bit confusing. At the finale of the drama version of "Apostle Walker", the egg left behind was that Huanxi's undercover file was deleted. This egg does not seem to be a foreshadowing of the sequel, but rather like a dog-tailed mink created in response to netizens guessing the undercover carnival.
From the episode version of "Walker Walker", even if Huanxi is really an undercover, he must be a traitorous undercover villain, killing, drug trafficking, and betraying his subordinates. How can a series of crimes not be active duty. It was done undercover, and the movie version did not give a reasonable explanation for this, but the loopholes in the movie version did not solve the loopholes that made "Apostle Walker 2" round up.
Compared with the TVB Mandarin dubbing group, which is not available, the cast of "Apostle Walker 2" is more advanced. Not only Chen Hao, who has been busy doing business in recent years, and Xuan Xuan, who has been away from the nest for many years, have played important roles in the play. Among the young actors, Yuan Weihao and Huang Cuiru are also popular Xiaodan Xiaodans of TVB in recent years. Even the first five episodes of Zhang Zhaohui and Huang Debin have died down. , Hong Yongcheng and others, have frequently appeared in the male number one and male number two on TVB in the past two years.
In front of a huge number of mainland websites, everyone is striving for the opportunity to appear on the scene, even if there are few scenes, they hope to leave a glimpse of the impression in the audience's mind.
Although "Walker 2" is not full of loopholes like the movie version of "Walker", the plot and characterization still reveal the impetuous habit of pursuing speed and sacrificing quality in the age of information expansion.
Remotely imagined how many specific scenes did the main creator use to make this character stand up in order to be portrayed as a credible super undercover in Laughing Sir in "Sneak Sniper": He responded fluently when he was questioned in court and showed his super memory and direct reports. The boss showed excellent reasoning ability when he first saw him, he turned against the army when he was planted by a lame Co to hide drugs, when he was undercover, he worked with the police inside and outside to save Yang Liqing's life and uprooted the heads of the society...
is not only Laughing Sir, the lame Co and Yao Keke in "Stealth Sniper", even the supporting characters such as police officer A Meng, Yang Liqing and the villain Mo Yilie, La Jiang Ge, everyone has a very complete growth clue no matter how many roles they play.
In contrast, the role of "Apostle Walker 2" is simply labeled, but lacks detailed support.
Wei Dexin (Chen Hao) accepts the family gang business as a retired special soldier of the US Marine Corps. The motivation for enlisting in the army was active or passive, and why he chose to accept the family business after retiring is unclear.
Although there are many scenes in the play that illustrate Wei Dexin's loyalty to the family, for an ambitious and eager "black three generation" who is eager to accept the family business, he will definitely choose to accept the family business earlier (for example, just graduated from college). On the surface, the matter of enlisting in the army has nothing to do with taking over the family business. What's more, in the few years when the United States served as a soldier, it had to be completely out of touch with the family business. A careerist who was eager to eradicate dissidents for the family did such an irrelevant. The decision is really puzzling.
The details of Wei Dexin’s tempering of his character in the barracks life in the play have also been scribbled. For example, he asks Xu Tiantang (played by Yuan Weihao) to wait for him in the sauna, but he soaks in ice water for an hour, in order to let the other party know that he will never suffer less than the other party. PlayableThere is no fragment of Wei Dexin's soaking in ice water, but it was taken carelessly through the conversation between Wei Dexin and Xu Tiantang in front of the pool. As a financial wizard Shi Jiali (Xuan Xuan), there are only a handful of plot points that can reflect her resourcefulness, and all of them appear weak.
One is that she was doing private work in Wei Dexin’s company, and was chased by Wei Dexin in a car while fleeing with the money. In order to prevent Wei Dexin from chasing by others, she threw the whole box of banknotes out of the window while sitting in a taxi, so that passers-by who picked up the banknotes caused road congestion and escaped the chase.
This is probably the most specific plot that reflects Shi Jiali’s talents. However, compared to Kobe’s strategy of using a cigarette bank to destroy inmates in prison in "Apostle Walker", this plot also lacks information. After all, Shi Jiali is not used here. Any financial related reserves. Other plots of
, such as when Zheng Shumei (played by Huang Cuiru) approached Shi Jiali as an undercover agent, she negotiated a large order of millions of millions under Zheng Shumei’s misunderstanding, and went to see the mysterious Johnny alone as Wei Dexin’s agent. After being shot, she stood up miraculously to get a chance to cooperate (because she guessed that the other party would shoot, so she wore a bulletproof vest in advance), but luck was more important than intelligence. What's more, Shi Jiali worked as an undercover agent in MI6, and she would put on a bulletproof vest even when she saw a stranger. At the end of the play, she was stunned and made a mini-bomb planted in her brain. The
planted the mini-bomb, a lost connection undercover. After the contact person Li Sir (played by Zhang Zhaohui) was killed, the female undercover realized that she was terminally ill, so she exercised justice in her own way, with the goal of eradicating Wei Dexin group.
However, after the brave and intelligent female undercover used her own way to make the gangsters jump, she went to a psychiatrist because of too much pressure, and told him all about being an undercover. Then Wei Dexin bought the psychiatrist's nurse and learned of her undercover identity, so she was dealt with. Since then, the female undercover disappeared, and no one knew her whereabouts until the end of the plot...
This is the advancement of the story of "Apostle Walker 2" The logic of —— Everyone possesses god skills but at the same time possesses a huge hole that is fatal. In front of their god skills, this loophole appears to be mentally weak and vulnerable, like an invincible warrior on the battlefield returning home On the road, he was stabbed and killed by a child without the strength of a chicken.
Every time the plot advances, there is only a conclusion and no process. In summary, "I found out that you want to deal with me — I also started to deal with you — you discovered that I want to deal with you — you fight back — one party declares defeat ——The surviving party will use the same method for the next round of PK—cycle—recycle".
However, compared to the loopholes in the first 10 episodes that cannot be rounded up, the second part is much more careful. The old Morse code in the first part, a group of undercover agents met in a ritual sense before the tomb of the sacrificed contact person (for fear that others would not know that they were undercover agents), although it still continued to the second part, but the methods and frequencies used were much more restrained.
And compared to the naked copy of the scenes in "Young and Dangerous" and "Pulp Comedy" in the first film, although some sections in the second film may seem familiar, at least I can see the subjective initiative of the main creator.
For example, the undercover female undercover who is terminally ill but still fights wits and courage with the enemy originated from the role of Andy Lau in the movie "Dark War", but he is a criminal rather than a law enforcement officer. Later, in TVB’s undercover cop drama "The Race Against Time", the senior CIB inspector Huang Jiahui played by Cheng Jiaying fully borrowed this role. Although he did not take the usual path, he still acted within the legal framework. This time, the "Apostle Walker 2" The terminally ill female undercover agent is an upgraded version of Huang Jiahui, who has become a tragic hero who takes risks in order to maintain justice.
"Apostle Walker 2" is probably also affected by "Racing Time". It also regards Thailand as the main battlefield of important police and robber struggles parallel to Hong Kong, China, and the slow freehand style, even the way the final boss died. It's all the same-Wei Dexin is the same as Hou Wenhua, the big boss played by Wei Junjie in "Running the Clock". He went all the way until his death, and was shot to death in a hasty way. The difference is that Wei Dexin died hating his love.In the hands of Brother Xi, Hou Wenhua died in the hands of his beloved woman.
After Wei Dexin died at the end of "Apostle Walker 2," Ma Guoming came to make a cameo, claiming to avenge Wei Dexin.
Probably today's episodes should leave room for discussion for the audience, and it is impossible to leave no easter eggs. Although I ended "Apostle Walker 2" with regret, but because of this easter egg, I still have a little expectation for the sequel "Apostle Walker 3", not to mention that Ma Guoming, who has become a wife, has now been blessed as an emperor.
