a review of 隐藏杀手

𝖍𝖔𝖔𝖕𝖙𝖔𝖇𝖊𝖗 𝖝 𝖓𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙 𝖋𝖔𝖚𝖗𝖙𝖊𝖊𝖓: The trailer gave me vague SCANNERS/BLADE RUNNER vibes, but after watching it, I get more of a TERMINATOR/MEN IN BLACK feeling from the whole thing. I kinda wonder how much inspiration Ed Solomon drew from this when writing MIB. The bits with the baddie displaying obvious alien-in-a-skinsuit behavior definitely reminded me of D'Onofrio as the Edgar-bug. Also, thinking on where this fits into Kyle MacLachlan’s career, there's moments in the first half where he's doing some of the same minimalist stuff with his body language that he drew on as “Dougie” in TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN. For that matter, his character's flat affect and very direct form of address is reminiscent of Cooper's doppelganger in TP:TR, so I wonder if this is a movie that MacLachlan consciously thought back to in building those characterizations.