Sunny Bracelets: surpassing the sales of "Detective Kien", but is it Ly Hai's step backwards?

Coming to theaters during the 30.4-1.5 holiday, Ly Hai's "Flip 8: Sunny Arms" has a worthy opponent - when Victor Vu launches "Detective Kien: Headless Case".

A year ago, Xuan Lan had to screen "The Price of Happiness" early from March so as not to have to clash with Ly Hai's "L. Flip 7". To see, for a long time in the film market, Ly Hai is a name that can create overwhelming power at the box office.

In the early days of theaters, the screening of "L. Flip Face 8: Sunny Arms" was significantly more than "Detective Kien: Headless Case". According to experts' predictions, the revenue of "L. Flip 8" may go far, reaching the goal of hundreds of billions faster than "Detective Kien: The Headless Case".

However, if considered fair, "Detective Kien: The Headless Case" is a new mark of Victor Vu's directing skills, while, "L. Flip 8: Sunny Arms" is Ly Hai's step back. "Detective Kien: The Headless Case" was released in theaters in the context of Vietnamese films that still have few scripts in the genre of investigation and crime-solving. This is again a genre that is said to be the strength and passion of director Victor Vu.

After the "horse fall" was criticized for the script in the latest project "The Last Wife", director Victor Vu showed that he put more effort and effort into the script when investing in "Detective Kien: The Headless Case".

"Detective Kien: The Headless Case" owns a relatively sparse script. The film is invested in the setting, costumes, creating an atmosphere of "investigation with ancient colors" which is quite interesting - considering the whole scene of Vietnamese films. "Detective Kien" owns many beautiful camera angles. The way of telling creates a highlight, pushes the clima.x and drama.

However, "Detective Kien: The Headless Case" also has its own difficulties, when the audience has approached the genre of investigation and crime solving with the top works of the US and Korea on digital platforms, compared to world cinema that has gone far with this genre, the plot of "Detective Kien" is still somewhat predictable.

Above all, "Detective Kien" is a well-thought-out, invested work, with a new imprint from the director's way of handling Victor Vu's script. In the "opposite" position, although it is temporarily leading in terms of revenue and screening (in some theaters), "L. Flip 8: Sunny Arms" is likened to a step backwards for director Ly Hai, compared to "L. Flip 7" itself. "Flip Face 8" is not only in Ly Hai's "safe" zone, but also shows an old perspective, an old approach to family topics.

The script lacks expensive plots, the storytelling is somewhat cumbersome, the tragedy is pushed too much - more than necessary. The biggest plus point of "L.Flip Face 8" is the natural acting of the young cast with many "horizontal" faces. "L. Flip 8: Sunny Arms" also shows that there is investment and care about the context. As of the morning of May 1, according to data from the Box Office, "L. Flip Face 8" has reached the revenue milestone of 80 billion VND, while "Detective Kien" has only collected 69 billion VND.

After the first days of premiere, besides the positive signals, the film L.Flip Face 8: Sunny Arms by director Ly Hai suddenly faced an unusually dirty seeding wave. A series of negative comments, malicious content, and smea.r the film appeared densely on social networking platforms. It is worth mentioning that most of these comments come from clone accounts with foreign names, do not interact with real and operate abnormally. This made many viewers frustrated and questioned the fact that L.Flip Face 8 was being "played badly" in an organized manner.

In the face of this wave of public benefits, Ly Hai and his wife Minh Ha officially spoke out on the family's official page, expressing their disappointment and desire to receive support from the audience. "L.Flip Face 8 is being dirty by seeders a lot since the movie has not been shown until now. Thanks to the whole family's love and understanding, Mr. Ly Hai spoke up to help! Thank you to the whole family."

In particular, the page of Ly Hai - Minh Ha and his wife also shared an old post and emphasized: "Every year, Mr. Hai calls on people not to affect others. And that is Mr. Hai's weakness when others know that Mr. Hai will not do these things to harm anyone."

Below the post, the audience and fans left many encouraging comments for the couple as well as the filmmaking team. In addition to the compliments, there are also fair viewers who think that L.Flip Face 8 is not really good, but not to the point of being criticized as badly as what netizens have seen these days.

Ly Hai's new movie has dominated the box office, Victor Vu is sweating, suspected of losing mone.y? Hany Đan12:16:08 27/04/2025At the end of April, Vietnamese audiences will witnes.s two blockbusters from two famous directors directly confronting each other. However, when Ly Hai's film was released early, it dominated the box office, bringing in 7 times more revenue than Victor Vu's film Ky An.