20 years ago, the first minutes of this movie offered a show that has nothing to do with the heat or Tarantino

Johnny Tony is one of the indisputable masters of Hong Kong’s polar, who has absolutely powerful works on his credit, such as Diptich’s elections, PTU, exiled or even revenge. In 2005, however, he offered this type of summit violations of news!

If this film shines with its scenes, in particular its impressive opening sequence that we will identify, it is also reflected in its pamphletic dimension. Indeed, Johnny Tony’s feature film is also a strict accusation against certain media methods that is ready to do something to get sensational images, sometimes to the detriment of the truth, and not to use manipulation.

To illustrate this, the director immediately lacks us in the urban atmosphere of Hong Kong. The film opens at the level of the building, in the counter-Agronia, in the background of the sky. Sweet music starts to play when the camera runs on a relatively narrow street with many cars parked.

Virtue and efficiency

A man who has a newspaper and a leather jacket dresses on the street and enters the building. The camera continues after it is above the window of the apartment. The man enters and discusses his accomplices, the bandits who have committed robberies.

The scene continues, still in sequence; The camera arrives and stands in front of a car parked in front of the building. These are police officers who observe the actions of the criminals to arrest them. The car arrives, waiting for the gangsters to escape. But homogeneous officers traveled to supervision for surveillance surgery.

From there, the shooting began, which ended with bitter police failure against bandits who could escape. For 7 minutes, this sequence of absolute virtuosis determines all the challenges of the scenario. When the police arrive and the music stops, we go to a completely different movie, Johnny, to take us with him during the shooting of a super realistic murder.

Achieving such a sequence is the Tour de Force! Indeed, the establishment of such a complex scene is all about careful coordination between all the artists of the film. First of all, actors and technicians must be perfectly synchronized to guarantee the success of such a project. Consequently, the sequence was enjoyed by many repetitions to make everything fluid and confusing realism.

A complex and technically shiny plan

The crane with a stabilizer was used to guarantee the fluid of the camera movements. Johnny and his team must prepare all this in a very accurate way to get this sequence; In order to convey all the tensions of the story, it was necessary to consider the movements of the actors, the fire exchange, or the cars that are running.

Coordination of all of these elements is a sensational technical feature; Thus, this scene offers a fabulous sink in the heart of the shooting, leading to the beginning so that we will no longer allow it for 7 minutes until the pressure is reduced. In this sense, the sequence of opening news is one of the most virtuosos that ever turned.

Recall, the story follows the team from the television stories, which broadcast live between the police battalion with 5 bandits, which simply robbed the bank. Diffusion of degrading police defeat brings a terrible blow to their credibility. When he conducts another investigation in a spoiled building, Detective Heng accidentally discovers the landmarks of the robbers.

The leader of the gang, Yuan, then sees that thousands of police are gathering around the building and preparing to launch an attack. Inspector Rebecca decides to turn the attack on a real television show.