Henchwomen Fight

Movie Name : The Lost 11th Floor 

Actress Name : Peng Wan

Character Name : Sheng Liya

Year : 2023

I don't know what this show is, it started as detective show, now they went after someone like Tarazan or something.. Ok, have TBH when it comes to Chinese movies and shows, they introduce so many characters in so little time, which non-Chinese would find it distracting, if it was me, I would start the show with 3 characters at most, like the main character getting up from bed and we know who they are and being introduced to them before they start working or something, so we get familiar with them, now, I can't remember any character because they were introduced very fast, and also some have their names written in a very short period of time.

Wait a minute, so the one hunting Tarzan wasn't a cop, I swear, I thought he was a cop all along.. Well, he's a cop, but also a bad guy, I don't know, what I really know, this show seems very good, unlike Hollywood soulless show, this one is actually fun to watch.

Ok, so our villainess appear like in the fourth episode, so that's where I will start to cover the show, just to know, if the show ended up like how Hollywood thought police shows, I will delete the post, till then, let's give it a chance.

Our villainess appear in 7 minute time mark, she's going after some guy, I escaped the the second and the third episodes, they seemed boring TBH, and she kind of didn't have any screentime in them, so let's see how things will go.

The music score really doesn't fit the show, such music fit more a show in isolated area or dead planet, or horror, the music make you anticipate things, but nothing is happening, it's really a bad choice.

Actress Chen Shu is playing Yan Ge in the show is so gorgeous, can't believe she's over 40, Chinese people age like wine LOL.

Ok, our villainess Sheng played with the poor guy's car, which is like the oldest trick in movies, like it's used in movies since the 50s, Hollyshit, I didn't expect such car flip in a show, it looks so good.

The show transfer too many data verbally not visually, which is a really bad thing if you are targeting global audiences, you should focus more on showing us and as less as possible on telling us, that's why horror and action movies have a global appeal, and Drama and Comedy is often localized, basically, people who aren't Chinese would have to read the subtitles, and having all the data in the subtitles make it harder for the audience to comprehend, not everyone of course, for me I'm used to it, and even prefer it to dubbing, I can't stand dubbing TBH, but in order to appeal to as much foreign audiences as possible, remember, always show don't tell.

Ok, finished the episode, our villainess revealed her face towards the exact ending of the episode, will continue watching it and updating it from time to time.

Now, let's continue watching the show with episode 5 now our villainess revealed her identity..

So, our villainess left the apartment of the hero and entered the car, and have to say, there is a misconceptions about cops in China, in the west they consider cops in China are more aggressive than their peers in USA for example, which is far from true, they even use Tank Man photo to prove that, which I find extremely ridiculous, like, bitch, if someone in USA tried to stand in front of a Tank during a state of emergency, the Tank operator wouldn't stop, especially that there are dozens of other tanks behind him, not only the Tank would turn him into a Kebab, but also no one would find the tank operator at fault, just think about it, what if a cop chasing some suspect, and someone deliberately stood in the way preventing the cop from doing his job, do you think the cop would just go easy on him and let the suspect go? My money on that the person standing in the way would face consequences, that's why Chinese cop shows often extremely boring and unwatchable, and the best are shows form WW2 era, which are sadly rarely translated, let's hope this show isn't a waste of time, and we get some action.

What I really like about this show, that unlike most modern Chinese shows and movies, the show doesn't shy from imperfection, the walls can be smudge and look imperfect, TBH, the too clean filming sets make me wanna puke, that's why Hollywood movies in 90s and early 2000s leaned towards making movie sets kind of imperfect, like check The Matrix for example, and see how the movie set looks imperfect and how the tiles on the wall looks kind of dirty.

    

I get the show isn't so exciting to watch, it's nothing in comparison with shows like Re Xue AKA 热血 which sadly doesn't have translation, and I kind of can't find it anywhere, but the other options are western shows, and I think the only way to watch modern Hollywood shows is if you are like really old, and was sent to a home, and taking medication to sedate you, and maybe then you may be able to watch them, because you probably have no other choice, modern Hollywood shows are extremely awful that it's not suitable to people from age 15 to 150, I don't even think the actors can stand see themselves on the screen because how boring they are..

In the show they talk about books about Sherlock Holmes, because that's what educated person who care about crime solving would read, which is very cliche, Sherlock Holmes is actually very outdated, the character was also a drug addict, so I kind of find it hard that a Chinese police officer admire Holmes as a "crime solver" or a great detective, if it was up to me, I would pick Dan Brown, who I read all of his books BTW, and they are awesome.

Anyway, our villainess did so little to nothing this episode, I'm not sure I'm gonna keep watching.. Probably will, till I find a better Chinese TV show, more fast-paced with more action and fight scenes.

Let's watch episode 6, and hope our villainess have more action, damn..

Ten minutes in and the most interesting part is the eating scene that ended up with Jiang He and his friend being drunk, god, I wish I was drunk rn.

Finally in 14 minute time mark, we see our villainess.

I wish IQIYI had a screenshot option, taking them manually is really tedious, especially .

Ok, around 17 minute, Luo Hai invited journalists to accuse director Jiang in public, Luo Hai was the guy Jiang hit with his car, and the hero was like "I'm sorry" and reached his hand to his head, and then Luo Hai grabbed his hand and hit his own head to make it look as if Jiang assaulted him, and it was so funny, now this move became on "Things I do before I die" list, to do it with someone I really hate LOL..

 The look on Jiang face is priceless.

Chinese movies and how they always windows in their movies, same with apple products, like, do these companies even pay you for such promotion, if they don't, why they don't promote Chinese products instead, or in case with windows, why they don't promote Chinese Linux distro like Deepin or Kylin, at least such distros can customized to fit the show's theme, and yeah, even OS are part of the artistic vision, that's why Hollywood used to create operation systems that doesn't exist to fit the theme and serve the vision of the movie/show, even the apps were being customized in a certain way to serve such purpose.   

Meng Chuan Sheng played by actor Guo Jing Lin is now the character that interests me the most.  

Finally Sheng Liya did something, she was actually behind framing director Jiang and payed the money to Luo Hai for doing what he was told. 

The show started to warm up this episode and that's good..