故事发生在抗日战争时期。制瓷大师郝茂庭被汉奸唐华涛出卖,日本人得知郝茂庭家中藏有一件钧瓷国宝将军樽。郝茂庭让女儿郝梅贞(平安 饰)连夜带将军樽逃了出去,但郝茂庭和妻子却遭日寇片山冈一(淳于珊珊 饰)杀害。外出办事的家丁洪德(王洪祥 饰)目睹东家惨状,他在郝家侍候多年,胸中怒火迸发。他深夜保护梅贞去郝茂庭夫妻的墓地去祭奠,没想到被潜伏在那的日本特工跟踪。洪德为了保护梅贞被日本人活捉,将军樽也落入日本人手里。片山冈一不满足于得到将军樽,他还要得到制作钧瓷的配方。于是设计把洪德给放走,并让美女特工丸尾凛子假扮中国少女白灵救下洪德并设法取得他的信任。丸尾凛子成功住进了洪德和梅贞的家,洪德能否发现危险的到来……
特种兵柯北复员后,和战友齐圣合伙开了一个军事拓展训练营。这一天,突然收到一份特殊的快递,里面藏着战友蒋智的半截手指。一段事关蒋智生死的视频,显示卧底东南亚某国的黑帮的蒋智身份暴露,遭到昔日执行任务时结下的仇家的残害。面对战友的生死,柯北无法再坐视不管。于是昔日的战友们重新聚首,孤军深入异国他乡,为战友,更为祖国,与犯罪分子血战到底。
Fraught with over obvious symbolism, Hartley's early feature is nonetheless a joy to watch. Hal here shows us his uncanny ability to cast his characters perfectly came early in his career. Adrienne Shelley is a near perfect foil to herself, equal parts annoying teen burgeoning in her sexuality (though using sex for several years); obsessed with doom and inspired by idealism gone wrong she is deceptively – and simultaneously – complex and simple. Her Audrey inspires so many levels of symbolism it is almost embarrassingly rich (e.g., her modeling career beginning with photos of her foot – culminating her doing nude (but unseen) work; Manhattan move; Europe trip; her stealing, then sleeping with the mechanics wrench, etc.) As Josh, Robert Burke gives an absolutely masterful performance. A reformed prisoner/penitent he returns to his home town to face down past demons, accept his lot and begin a new life. Dressed in black, and repeatedly mistaken for a priest, he corrects everyone ("I'm a mechanic"), yet the symbolism is rich: he abstains from alcohol, he practices celibacy (is, in fact a virgin), and seemingly has taken on vows of poverty, and humility as well. The humility seems hardest to swallow seeming, at times, almost false, a pretense. Yet, as we learn more of Josh we see genuineness in his modesty, that his humility is indeed earnest and believable. What seems ironic is the character is fairly forthright in his simplicity, yet so richly drawn it becomes the viewer who wants to make him out as more than what he actually is. A fascinatingly written character, perfectly played. The scene between Josh and Jane (a wonderful, young Edie Falco . . . "You need a woman not a girl") is hilarious . . . real. But Hartley can't leave it as such and his trick, having the actors repeat the dialogue over-and-over becomes frustratingly "arty" and annoying . . . until again it becomes hilarious. What a terrific sense of bizarre reality this lends the film (like kids in a perpetual "am not"/"are too" argument). Hartley's weaves all of a small neighborhood's idiosyncrasies into a tapestry of seeming stereotypes but which delves far beneath the surface, the catalyst being that everyone believes they know what the "unbelievable truth" of the title is, yet no two people can agree (including our hero) on what exactly that truth is. A wonderful little movie with some big ideas.
在絕望中,她的歌聲喚醒了人的良知,包括愛 全球知名的女高音蘿珊考斯(茱莉安摩爾飾)擁有天籟般的美聲,應邀前往南美洲的私人慶生派對,為極其熱愛歌劇的日本富商細川先生(渡邊謙飾)獻唱,來自世界各地的外交使節與政商名流星光雲集,熱鬧歡騰,直到一記記的槍響劃破天際,歡樂的氣氛戛然而止。無數的哀嚎、尖叫四起,一群武裝革命分子闖入,將所有人挾持為人質,一場驚心動魄的談判就此展開,漫長的僵局也隨之而來。 深陷險境,命在旦夕,身心俱疲的蘿珊臨危受命開口一唱,悄悄喚醒了不可泯滅的人性與愛情,透過動人的音符,讓每一個人忘卻了自己仍身處險境,淪為美聲的俘虜……。