Produced by Andy Lau, directed by Kwan Chi-yao, Qian Jiale serves as the action director, starring Andy Lau, Gordon Lam, Eddie Peng, and Arthur Liu, with Simon Yam as a special star, starring Lam Suet, Cheng Zeshi, and Jiang Haowen. Tan Shanyan, Liu Junqian, and Zhu Jianyan will star in the crime action movie "Stealth" It will be released nationwide on December 29.
"Stealth" poster
On December 23, producer and star Andy Lau, director Kwan Chi-yao, and actors such as Jimmy Lam, Eddie Peng, and Liu Yase came to Shanghai for a road show. They appeared for post-screening interactions and had a lively exchange with the audience.
"Stealth" is the first movie announced this year to be released during the Lunar New Year. As early as when it was scheduled to be released, Andy Lau will play a villain again after 16 years, which aroused the audience's expectations. Confrontation between cops and robbers, gun battles, explosions, and car chases, the movie "Stealth" continues many elements of classic Hong Kong police and gangster movies. At the same time, the film introduces a "dark web" setting, making the drug trade hidden in it even more difficult to track. The police Facing unprecedented challenges, the addition of new criminal methods such as live streaming of drug trafficking has also added new ideas to the traditional routines of Hong Kong movies that are close to current life. Director Guan Zhiyao has previously shared that the original intention of shooting this movie was because "bad guys are advancing with the times, and as creators, we also want to make a work with heart and give everyone a new warning."
Andy Lau
Andy Lau not only served as the producer and star of the film, he also revealed that he participated in the creation of the script. In the film, he played a drug lord who operates behind the scenes. Regarding this attempt to wear multiple hats, he said that he hopes to create a movie that is close to current life and "closer to young people. At the same time, he also hopes to use the movie to tell young people that emerging crimes are real around them." , I hope everyone can stay away from drugs."
In the film, Andy Lau leads an unusual "double life." In the "Darknet" where darkness and crime thrive, he freely manipulates huge drug transactions, and in the eyes of others, he is an elegant and decent gentleman. This performance not only subverts the public's usual impression of drug lords as rough and violent, but hides ruthlessness under a refined and elegant appearance, and uses the calmest attitude to do the most vicious evil deeds.
Director Guan Zhiyao also mentioned in the on-site communication that Brother Hua has not fired a gun in a movie for many years. "Making this movie is to satisfy my own selfishness as a fan. I want to see Andy Lau shoot a gun in the movie."
In addition to Andy Lau, there are also powerful actors such as Lam Jiadong, Peng Yuyan, Liu Yase, Simon Yam, Lam Suet, Zheng Zeshi and other powerful actors on the same stage. The leading actors in this film have gathered the "Four Emperors and One Queen" of the Hong Kong Film Awards. The leading actors have won the combined Academy Awards. He has been nominated for 40 acting awards and won 10 trophies, and can be described as a "full-time acting school".
After watching the film, the audience expressed that Andy Lau's Lin Zhenan, from the details, eyes to movements, conveyed the "invisible sense of oppression" of the villain directly to the audience. Gordon Lam's debut in Police Undercover also received critical acclaim, and many viewers were heartbroken by Xiu Hao's (Gordon Lam) struggle and suffering. Peng Yuyan, who plays the role of the police superintendent, was enthusiastically shouted by the audience to "weld the uniform on your body" and "the uniform looks like it kills me."
In the audience, Li Jinye, a lawyer who participated in "The Heart-warming Offer Season 2", commented after watching the movie that Andy Lau's "appearance is too deceptive" and "when a person who is familiar with the law chooses to commit a crime, then he will have a greater impact on society." Big harm.”
Eddie Peng
Peng Yuyan plays the hot-blooded police officer Fang Xing in the movie. He said that Fang Xing uses new technology to handle cases "with ideas and enthusiasm", but ignores the experience of his predecessors in handling cases. Therefore, it was not until he found that this method could not solve the problem that he realized that he had to change his habits and switch. Perspective, began to care more about the thoughts and emotions of colleagues, and thus completed an important growth. He also mentioned that Fang Xing is "like himself a lot of the time". When chasing dreams, he only devotes a lot of enthusiasm but ignores the importance of experience. These insights deeply resonated with Fang Xing in the audience.
Liu Yase
Some viewers tasted the freshness of this Hong Kong-style police and gangster film and bluntly said that under the direction of Kwan Chi-yao, the film's "fighting scenes are still of a high standard, but the literary scenes are unexpectedly touching."
