Best Actor

    "The film begins with a narration to tell the fact that with the popularity of mobile phones, public phone booths are becoming less and less, and public phones in many neighborhoods have been demolished. But the public phone There are still many people using it, some for convenience, some for concealment, and the male protagonist of the movie belongs to the latter.

    Stu, played by Sean Tang, is a small broker who uses big words to deceive clients all day long and likes to put on airs, but in fact achieves nothing. He has a good wife, but he wants to be outside all day, so he falls in love with a young actress and wants to seduce her by various means. In order to prevent his wife from discovering his little actions on the phone, he always used the public phone to contact the young girl. When he came to the fixed public phone booth again on this day, the phone rang. It turned out that one of them was in a high-rise building. Perverted killers who take pleasure in shooting pedestrians set their sights on him.

    The story unfolds from here, the 90-minute movie shows what happened in 90 minutes, Stu wanted to leave again and again, but was forced back by the perverted killer again and again. During this period, the pimp who had been using this public phone to solicit customers for prostitutes had an argument with Stu for wanting to use the phone, and was then shot by a perverted killer, so the police came and regarded Sean in the phone booth as a suspect.

    Stu was unable to advance or retreat, and the police captain was still awake, so he asked his wife to persuade him, and the girl he wanted to hook up with also rushed over after reading the news. Under the threat of a perverted killer looking for fun, Stu had to expose his dirty thoughts in front of the media and in front of everyone.

    Yes, I used the word 'wonderful', and I think Sean's performance in The Sniper Phone Booth totally lives up to that word. The 90-minute movie, at least 70 minutes or more, was supported by him alone. Stu's pride, Stu's panic, Stu's panic, Stu's struggle, and Stu's pain, all Shown by him to the fullest! He is sometimes lost, sometimes frightened, sometimes desperate, and every close-up shot is full of impact, this is an unparalleled personal show!

    I can't use more words to describe the wonderfulness of this movie, I can only say, maybe it can't compare with the gorgeous pictures of the big production, nor can it stimulate the secretion of adrenaline instantly The plot, but Sean's excellent performance and the story that always maintains a tense atmosphere, coupled with the director Schumacher's ruthless control of the camera, clearly and clearly showed everything that this character encountered in just 90 minutes. The rhythm is unexpectedly tight, and there is no extra time at all, enough to make people applaud.

    Although Schumacher has directed a lot of movies after the badly criticized "Batman and Robin", I think it was not until "Sniper Phone Booth" that he was eliminated. Notoriety at the time.

    In short, this is a story about the phone, and a story about a man's self-rescue, I highly recommend everyone to go to the cinema to see how a good actor can support a movie , for Sean, who has starred or an important supporting role in six consecutive films, this is a wonderful end. "

    —Romain Acheson, The New York Times.

    As a film with an investment of less than 10 million yuan, "Sniper Phone Booth" naturally did not have a premiere, not even a test screening by film critics, but as I said earlier, The media pays as much attention to it as those big productions.

    As a result, when the film was released, most film critics watched and wrote reviews for the first time, and most of them gave very high reviews, just like the one above in the "New York Times" like Mr. Acheson, who has a column.

    "Like the original "Genius Ripley", when you seriously appreciate the movie, you will quickly forget that this single-minded actor is actually only in his early twenties. The frivolity he showed , triumph, fear, fear, remorse, etc., are no different from a thirty-year-old adult!" said a film critic.

    "I think it's a textbook performance, and Sean Tang's one-man show is very impressive." The Hollywood Reporter also commented.

      Imagine a pervert who hides a sniper rifle between high-rise buildings in New York for fun, and the police can be so stupid, use all their methods, and finally rely on the kind of prompting from the hero to find the criminal. Of course, according to Reliable sources say the film was shot on the streets of Los Angeles, so it’s understandable to think about it.”

      Comments have a bigger impact.

    "It's a pretty tense ending, no doubt, but again, it has a bad ending. I can't imagine a pervert who could get away with being surrounded by cops What is the purpose of the director creating such a pervert? If this is the foreshadowing that the producer wants to leave for the sequel, then I can only say that this is the worst Foreshadowing!" This was an opinion piece for the Los Angeles Times.

    Although when filming, Sean repeatedly suggested that the ending should be changed to a sniper who only had a voice and was killed by the police, because his approach was completely unfounded in morality. Not to mention whether an extramarital affair is a crime, even if it is clearly stipulated in the law that it is a crime, it should not be sentenced to death by a judge and a jury, not to mention that he also killed two innocent people.

    Modified into a sniper and eventually killed, it is undoubtedly more in line with the values ​​of mainstream society, and can also win a higher box office.

      The snipers who turned round and round were killed in such a simple way in the end, which seemed like an anticlimactic ending. Although there are many such films in Hollywood, this will obviously affect the box office. It was originally modified for the sake of the box office. If it affects the box office after the modification, it would be too stupid.

    It is not appropriate to not modify it, and the problem raised by Sean does exist. Under the embarrassment, Zach finally decided to set the sniper to use the body of the pizza deliveryman to escape the police. , and when the male protagonist was sedated and taken to an ambulance with blurred vision, he came to threaten him.

    Of course, that layer of moral aura is not, the sniper has become a complete perverted murderer, he just warned the male protagonist, for the sake of having a good time today, he will not kill him , but he will show up anytime in the future.

    Although Sean felt that something was wrong, he didn't say much more. It was a good thing for the other party to listen to his opinions and make changes. So, after the release, this still became a target: Criminals are not getting the punishment they deserve.

    Not every criminal in a movie will be punished, but they will definitely get more than what they don’t get. Sean also proposed based on this point, so it is inevitable to be criticized on this now. of.

    But, no matter what, this is a flaw in the script of the movie, and it has nothing to do with Sean, even if someone wants to play it, it will not be implicated. What's more, 90 percent of critics, including The New York Post, didn't mention whether the last of Sean's six-month-old films was a perfect ending, because the results were obvious.

    $20 million, this is the North American box office of "Sniper Phone Booth" in its first week of "The Road", "The Elf Mouse Little Brother", "Men in Black 2" and other productions stepped on their feet, occupying the second place in the North American box office rankings!

    It is true that some of these films have been released for two or three weeks. "Men in Black 2" has even been released for a month, but "Country Bear", which was also released together, only has 5 million box office. Moreover, Fox has only contacted 1,800 theaters for "Sniper Phone Booth", and the above films, including "Country Bear", have more than 2,000 theaters in theaters.

    In fact, except for "Sniper Phone Booth" and "Minority Report", which has been released for 6 weeks and dropped to tenth at the box office, the other 8 films on the list have all the number of theaters more than 2000.

    In this case, there is no need to say much about the prospects of this movie.

    "There has never been a young actor in Hollywood who is always astonishing like Sean Tang, although he is indeed lucky to always meet good scripts and appreciate his director, but if his All the results are attributed to this, so there is no doubt that it is wrong. Any actor can succeed, there must be something special, although Sean came to Hollywood in 1998, he was already a high school stage play group before that. He is an important member of the group. His excellent acting skills did not come out of thin air. Of course, he does have excellent talent and a mature temperament that can't be exchanged for anything. I believe that any person with a fair attitude, after watching " After "The Genius Ripley" and "The Sniper Phone Booth", he will admit that he is completely lacking in the youthfulness of young people..."

    This report was written by Wayne Levitt, who was the one who found out that five films starring Sean or played an important supporting role had been released for five consecutive months, and wanted to develop into film critics independent journalist. Because of that report and the subsequent interview, Sean established a good relationship with him, so after the release of "Sniper Phone Booth", he immediately wrote a detailed review and praised it.

    Of course, as before, it is posted on your own blog, so the influence of traditional media is still slightly less than that of traditional media - although blogs have developed rapidly, it is still difficult to replace traditional media in a short period of time. media.