According to iQIYI, the crime-solving film "Phap Toi 2" with the main role played by actor Hoang Canh Du has a hit of 10,000 points, becoming the first film this year on iQIYI to achieve this achievement. In addition, the work also received 6.2 points on Douban with nearly 7,000 reviews.
What is impressive is that few people expected the film to achieve these numbers in the context of not being heavily promoted, not releasing trailers and a cast that is not in the audience.
Punishment 2" revolves around the development of the Hanzhou port area, telling the story of a long-term intellectual battle and confrontation between police officer Qin Feng (played by Hoang Canh Du) and Hanzhou's biggest criminal boss Liu Tianya (played by Wang Zhuanjun). Finally, Qin Feng successively solves many cases and brings the truth to light.
Grasping the explosive momentum of "Phat Toi 2", the production crew organized a 4-hour livestream, attracting great attention from the online community. In the livestream, the two male leads Hoang Canh Du and Vuong Truyen Quan also shared many notable behind-the-scenes stories.
According to Hoang Canh Du, the character Tan Phong in part 2 has become calmer and controls emotions better than the first part. Although still maintaining tension when pursuing criminals, the character no longer acts impulsively but knows how to maintain judgment and rhythm under high pressure.
To make the criminal police image more convincing, the male actor practiced high intensity for half a year, gaining about 7.5 kg of muscle, reducing the fat rate to 6.8%, and at the same time performing many action and dangerous scenes himself.
In contrast to the cold, cruel image of villain Luu Thien Da in the movie, Vuong Truyen Quan made the audience laugh when he revealed that in real life he is very afraid of darkness. This interesting contrast immediately caused comments to explode.
The male actor also said that the biggest challenge of the role is not only in the cruelty, but in maintaining the humane cuts so that the audience, even when scared, can still feel the emotional logic of the character.
Previously, Hoang Canh Du shared with the media that working with Vuong Truyen Quan on the film set was very comfortable and fun. The two often performed and exchanged, from which many new ideas arose.
He also said that many actors in the film crew have known each other for a long time and often gather together. Therefore, when filming collective scenes in the office, everyone both chats naturally and acts, making the dialogue softer and closer to the real-life colleague relationship.
From the livestream, it can be seen the level of meticulous investment of the crew and actors, from acting to action scenes. However, as a long-term narrative crime film, "Phatic 2" still has points worth discussing. For example, some action scenes and investigative details have high information density, requiring viewers to focus on following. Besides, some details are still able to be completed to be closer to reality.
