Employs ambiguity and conservative action

"Rath of Man" ... is the best Guy Ritchie movie in two decades

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Wrath of Man uses a vulgar title or title suitable for Steven Seagal films, and is not a film that reflects a major change in the style of its British director Guy Ritchie, one of the most important directors of the new millennium, who rose to prominence through London gangster films.

The film is a remake of a French film called Le Convoyeur in 2004, or we can say that it is an update or improvement of the original film, whose story was not clear and easy to understand.

Richie directed "Luke Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" in 1998, followed by the cute and hugely successful Snatch, then failed badly in Swept Away for his wife, Madonna, and then a series of failed films except for "Sherlock Holmes" and "The Gentleman".

Richie's films feature satirical comedy and extreme violence.

This is Richie's best film since his second film mentioned in the second paragraph and the man employs mystery, through character and template like never before in his films.

There is severe darkness in the general atmosphere, and the viewer almost smells the scent of evil wafting from the footage, and there are sparks flying from the eyes of the hero, which we do not know if he is a hero or a demon.

When H (Jason Statham, in his fourth collaboration with Richie and the first since 2005) begins his job at Los Angeles, the money transfer company Fortico (the movie H should have been called to keep up with the ambiguity of the film and not "a man's rage"), no one suspects that this man has any Motives only protect funds in armored cars.

The man is conservative and speaks less than five words for every sentence he says, the company is conducting a security check of his past and it turns out that he is clean.

The company hires him as a new guard (money carrier) for its frustrated staff due to the loss of two people in two armed robberies.

The company conducts a test for H, and he gets an average of 70%, that is, he exceeds the minimum required to join the guard crew, but when an armed robbery occurs on his first day, the man exhibits an unnatural skill in dealing with the crisis, and the whole gang gets killed in the execution method: (a bullet in Head).

It is hard to ignore how a 70% newbie on the job test eliminated a gang with a very precise shot, while his colleagues grappled with amazement and awe at the horror of the situation.

Richie employs conservative, restrained action instead of the chaotic show-stopping action, which he employed in Snatch, "Revolver" and "Rukanrula", and tied action is a style that Christopher Nolan became famous for in "The Dark Knight" in 2008, and we can easily say that Nolan is the most inspiring action. For filmmakers after The Metrix in 1999.

The production employs a beautiful pallet (number of colors in the shot) in one color with multiple grades, and this pallet helps position the film between two sub-directions of the crime genre: theft / armed robbery and a new 'noir'.

The mystery of the first hour leads the viewer to wonder: 'Is H an undercover government agent?

Or is it a criminal?

Or is he planning his own operation? ”

Richie reveals the mystery with the usual template of showing the story from multiple perspectives.

In the first scene, we see a gang disguised as construction workers rob a Fortico, killing two guards and civilians.

The first time we see the scene, Richie puts the camera in the money bags in the trunk of the car and it is difficult to know what is happening, and this is one of the strangest and only footage of the film in which the camera appears to be talking to us directly.

Richie repeats the scene two more times - and this is his signature, not surprising - the first from H's point of view, and the second from the point of view of the scarred thug who killed the two guards and his name is Jean (Scott Eastwood), and this serial killer is a member of the gang headed by Jackson (Geoffrey Donovan).

After these two additional scenes, it becomes clearer for H's role, purpose, and relationship to everything that happens.

H wants revenge, and from his style it is clear that he has nothing to lose.

There is a clear and tangible influence of Richie in the movie "The Dark Knight", as well as Michael Mann's Heat, and his influence with the second we see most clearly in the day and night shots of Los Angeles.

In the action, we see him influenced by the two films.

As for the template, which is the presentation of the story from multiple perspectives and different angles, it is not an innovation from Richie, but rather borrowed from Quentin Tarantino, who revived him in the nineties, and his creator is the legend Stanley Kubrick in the famous movie "The Killing" in 1956, and he was employed by Don Siegel. Also in the 1964 movie The Killers.

In John Wake, we saw how the gang called him (the bogeyman), and its leader warned against messing with him, and when he attacked him, he killed it. Here when the money car was subjected to a robbery by a second gang, H got out of the car, and when the gang members knew him they ran away from the site without Firing a single bullet.

This shot is original to the movie armed robbery, it was said in "John Wick" literally (Boogeyman), and Richie executed it very expressively without a single word with Statham's terrifying performance.

• The director changed the style and kept the template, because he sees it as his indispensable signature.

• severe darkness in the general atmosphere of the film, and the viewer almost smells the smell of evil wafting from the clips.

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