[Good movie recommendation] The mysterious Middle East in “Redemption and Rescue” cannot be thought of in general terms! How did He Zhengyu save a colleague whose life was hanging by a thread with a huge sum of money!

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[Wu Lei] Seeing the background setting of “Redemption and Rescue”, it is not difficult to remind people of “Fire Line Negotiation”starring Hyun Bin and Huang Haomin. In a Southeast Asian country where the language is poor and the sky is full of yellow sand, once a Korean hostage is kidnapped, always had to be rescued through unofficial and unofficial channels. This time, the diplomat played by Ha Jung Woo will go deep into the dangerous situation to rescue his colleagues who have been kidnapped locally for 21 months.

“Redemption”is starring Ha Jung-woo and Joo Ji-hoon, and it is also the second collaboration between the two after the “Walk with God”series. And this work also explained at the beginning that it was adapted from real people. The plot describes a prosecutor Wu Jae-seok who was kidnapped in Lebanon for no reason. After 21 months, another diplomat tried his best to go there. Rescue, and finally successfully returned to South Korea. Director Kim Sung-hoon also mentioned at the press conference that what the society knows is that the diplomat was kidnapped for 21 months and returned after a catastrophe, but they don’t know what happened to him in the local area, so the film uses imagination to fill in these processes.

No one really knew how the diplomat was successfully rescued at the time of the incident, but as time passed, a few media outlets began to disclose details and clues at that time, and the original title of this movie is “Informal Combat”, which shows Communication with Lebanon through normal channels is not feasible. So Ha Jung-woo, who is a diplomat in the film, received a call from the local area and sent a message in code, starting the rescue process. During this period, it was possible to achieve the ultimate goal by passing through powerful people in Switzerland and avoiding the many local crises.

As Joo Ji-hoon said in the film, no one can be trusted locally. In particular, Ha Jung-woo, who has a huge sum of money and intends to go to pay the ransom to the gangsters, has become the target of various groups since he arrived at the airport. There are also a lot of action scenes in the film. Zhu Zhixun, who has integrated into the local life, and the two have been shuttling in the hail of bullets, making the audience always in a state of tension.

In the film, Ha Jung-woo and Joo Ji-hoon are in the middle east in dire straits, but they are fighting alone without receiving any support. At that time, the South Korean government was not strong enough, and it seemed that it could not provide any support for the ransom. It was also because Ha Jung-woo successfully sent back the kidnapped hostages, which made a big fuss at the time. relation. At the end of the film, it is also stated in text that the South Korean government did not pay the ransom at that time, giving this work a satirical message. Full of tension, “Redemption and Rescue”will be officially released in Taiwan on September 1.