12/11/2023 0 Comments Movie only fools rush in![]() ![]() But when Shen’s character suddenly leaves, there’s a big dramatic hole as the film shifts course, concentrating more on the son’s involvement with his biker pals, and especially their big-talking leader (amusingly drawn by Yin) and his younger sister (relative newcomer Liu Haocun 刘浩存, 21). ![]() After borrowing his son’s beloved motorbike to go womanising, and hardly connecting with him, the father leaves at the 40-minute mark with the cautionary words “Don’t become me!” Shen’s skill at straightfaced humour and portraying laidback opportunists keeps the film afloat and leads audiences to believe it will be another father-son study in the line of Duckweed or Pegasus. As played by Shen, he’s a smooth-talking rogue who effectively deserted his son for the big city – and now doesn’t even recognise him as he disembarks. Though it’s yet another film by the prominent Gen-80er that’s focused on a petrolhead (in this case, two wheels rather than four), it starts with a nice line in droll comedy as the 20-year-old hero (Liu Haoran 刘昊然, 24, from the Detective Chinatown 唐人街探案 franchise), who lives on Nan’ao, a small island off the southern coast of China, with his aged grandma, goes to meet his “so-called father” off the boat from Guangzhou. After very nice, rising figures for his previous three titles (RMB629 million, RMY1.05 billion, RMB1.73 billion), Fools has crashed to earth over Chinese New Year with a “mere” RMB530 million after three weeks, suggesting the Han phenomenon may have peaked. Basically three different films cut up and pasted together, it’s a prime example of lazy film-making that takes its audience for granted, as well as being a waste of a potentially interesting cast that includes droll comics Shen Teng 沈腾 ( Pegasus), Yin Zheng 尹正 ( Pegasus) and Qiao Shan 乔杉, all of whom have ties with Beijing theatre troupe Ma Hua FunAge 开心麻花. After a tragic accident, Wu Renyao and Zhou Huansong end up travelling to Guangzhou, on the run from both the police and a debt collector.Īfter a successful run of three movies ( The Continent 后会无期, 2014 Duckweed 乘风破浪, 2017 Pegasus 飞驰人生, 2019), celebrity writer/blogger/rallyist-turned-film director Han Han 韩寒, 39, goes to the same well once too often with Only Fools Rush In 四海, which taps his favourite subjects of road tripping, racing, and youthful dreams but this time in a hopelessly disorganised way. But the police are after Zhou Huange for arranging illegal street races. Left alone, Wu Renyao spends his whole time with Zhou Huange’s group. After messing up a translation job at the opening of a trendy club started by Zhou Huange, Wu Renteng leaves, having arranged with his brother, Uncle Liu (Wan Ziliang), to take their mother to see some snow, as she’s always dreamed. Next day all five go off to an (illegal) street race that Zhou Huansong has organised against a rival team, and Wu Renyao ends up almost winning it for them – until a last-minute accident. ![]() Wu Renyao agrees to join the team, which grandly calls itself The Invincible Legends 不败传说, in order to stay close to Zhou Huansong, though she tells him she’s not ready yet for a serious relationship as she still has a goal in life she wants to achieve. Next day Wu Renyao meets Zhou Huange two friends, Dongtu (Zhou Qi) and Hongchen (Zhang Youhao), who all share a love of motorbike racing. Eager to become friends, Zhou Huange suggests they go back to his place but en route they crash into Wu Renteng and his date (Zhao Ziqi). In the street he’s aggressively approached by a guy who turns out to be her elder brother Zhou Huange (Yi Zhenh). Wu Renteng borrows Wu Renyao’s bike for the evening meanwhile, Wu Renyao walks into town to have dinner at the restaurant where Zhou Huansong (Li Haocun), the girl he’s secretly fallen for, works as a waitress. Wu Renyao’s mother died when he was one, and Wu Renteng is a self-admitted failure as a father he’s come this time to bring his own mother back to Guangzhou while she can still vaguely recognise him. One day his “so-called father” Wu Renteng (Shen Teng), a former failed English teacher at primary school, arrives by boat from Guangzhou and doesn’t even recognise his son at the harbour. Twenty-year-old Wu Renyao (Liu Haoran) lives on the small island with his grandmother (Wu Yanshu), who has Alzheimer’s, and spends most of his time riding his motorcycle, with few friends. Nan’ao island, Guangdong province, southern China, the present day. Celebrity writer-director-rallyist Han Han goes to the same well once too often in this lazily-written youth movie that takes its audience for granted. ![]()
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