時報影評《老炮兒》 137分鐘的鬆弛故事
Mr. Six is a grumpy old fixture on his Beijing back street, ready to scold or shoot a withering look. But as we are frequently reminded in the director Guan Hu’s character study “Mr. Six,” he was one bad dude back in the day. That was before the money-obsessed modern age in China gave rise to spoiled rich kids, fancy modified cars and a general lack of decency. All these problems bedevil Mr. Six, whose estranged son is held captive by a wealthy, speed-racing brat named Kris.
暴脾氣的六爺是北京胡同裏的一位“老炮兒”，隨時都會破口大罵，斜眼瞪人。但是導演管虎這部以人物個性爲中心的影片《老炮兒》時常提醒觀衆，六爺當年也是個橫行一時的壞傢伙。那還是中國走入金錢至上的現代社會之前的事了，如今的時代屬於那些嬌生慣養的富二代，開着花哨的車子，絲毫不講規矩。這些問題困擾着六爺，與他疏遠的兒子又被一個名叫小飛的追風闊少扣押了。
As the rough-hewed Mr. Six, Feng Xiaogang (who is also a director of some of China’s biggest blockbusters) carries himself with impeccable stoicism. He exudes moral conscience whether standing up for a beggar against the police or staring down a ridiculous adversary like Kris (the singer Kris Wu, with Olympian bearing and platinum hair).
馮小剛（他也是一位導演，執導了中國若干最賣座的票房大片）在片中飾演固執的六爺，帶有一種無懈可擊的斯多葛主義。他身上散發着道德感的氣息，幫助一個乞丐和警察對抗，鄙視小飛這樣可笑的對手（這個角色由歌手吳亦凡飾演，打扮誇張，染着銀白色的頭髮） 。
But the baggy 137-minute story drowns out Mr. Feng’s assorted sharp moments with hoary family drama and clumsy plotting, and Li Yifeng is generic as Mr. Six’s son. It’s also a shame that the movie doesn’t develop our hero’s girlfriend, the lamentably named Chatterbox (Xu Qing), or his crew of streetwise friends from way back when.
但是在這個137分鐘的鬆弛故事裏，馮小剛的犀利時刻被各種老掉牙的家庭戲和笨拙的情節淹沒了，飾演六爺之子的李易峯也顯得一般。另一個遺憾是，影片沒有好好塑造主角的女朋友，她有個拙劣的名字“話匣子”（許晴飾），也沒有好好塑造他那些舊日的街頭夥伴們。
The ending makes a bold gesture in upholding Mr. Six as an actual mortal rather than an invincible vigilante. It pulls the camera back from his dissatisfied point of view (and is more intriguing than a bit of symbolism involving an ostrich on the loose), but it’s a long time coming.
影片的結尾是一個大膽的姿態，令六爺成了真正有血有肉的人，而不僅僅是一個英勇的鬥士。它把鏡頭從他心懷不滿的視角拉回來（其中還有一隻鴕鳥逃跑的鏡頭，與其說是象徵主義，倒不如說是有趣），但是時間有些長了。
“Mr. Six” is not rated. In Mandarin with English subtitles. Running time: 2 hours 17 minutes.
《老炮兒》未分級。中文對白，英文字母。放映時間：2小時17分鐘。
