Chekhov famously stated that you shouldn’t introduce a gun in the first act of a play without firing it off sometime later. In director Gao Peng’s feature debut, A Long Shot, the gun in question is seen during the first five minutes and then remains unused until the finale. For the rest of this murky, gritty thriller’s two-hour running time, firearms take a back seat to the rampant corruption and crime taking place in China’s northeastern industrial wasteland, where a long-standing iron and steel foundry is in the midst of a major crisis.
The Fenglin Ferroalloy Factory, a massive rust-covered facility where nearly the entire movie is set, employs more than 8,000 people and is almost a city onto itself. But wages have gone unpaid for months, and the workers — or whoever’s left of them — are getting antsy. Protecting the place against a wave of robberies...
The Fenglin Ferroalloy Factory, a massive rust-covered facility where nearly the entire movie is set, employs more than 8,000 people and is almost a city onto itself. But wages have gone unpaid for months, and the workers — or whoever’s left of them — are getting antsy. Protecting the place against a wave of robberies...
- 10/26/2023
- by Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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