Film Name:铁道飞虎 / Railroad Tigers
Last night I watched 《Railroad Tigers》 directed by Ding Sheng, starring Jackie Chan, Joey Fong, Wang Kai, Xu Fan, and guest starring Andy Lau, and as a rookie movie fan, I’d like to talk about my feelings. As a rookie movie fan, I would like to talk about my feelings about Railroad Tigers. I think it is a pure comedy film in the guise of an anti-Japanese drama, and for the sake of comedic effect, there are a lot of Internet catchphrases and clips in the drama without any sense of propriety, for example: duang, scared the baby to death, where to dig up the potatoes, and so on. For the discerning moviegoer, one might wonder if this isn’t an anti-Japanese drama. So many Internet buzzwords and the background of the time is out of sync. But for pseudo-fans like me, it’s just funny, and anything else can be ignored as long as it doesn’t involve moral issues.
As a comedy, I give it high marks, especially in the middle and later parts of the movie, where the baggage is constant, as evidenced by the laughter in the movie theater.
Where the drama falls short is that the plot is rather loose. If it’s considered a classic of anti-Japanese comedy, this movie is significantly weaker. The relationships between the characters are not too clear, and some of the plots are too exaggerated, such as whether Daikoku is dead or alive, which I couldn’t figure out by the end.
This movie is similar to 《Railroad Tigers》, which was released a while ago, in which only Zhang Han Yu and Peng Yu Yan’s characters fought with the drug lords and won in the end. In “Railroad Tigers”, the two Japanese soldier leaders are like undefeatable little strong men, fighting to the last second with Jackie Chan and his fellow “hicks” and almost winning the battle.
It’s getting harder and harder to get a laugh out of the audience these days, and on that level, 《Railroad Tigers》 does a good job.
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