Just as fans were looking forward to his new horror film, Neil Marshall suddenly changed his style and launched this "Centurion". Although he still insisted on his consistent cold and bloody shooting style in "Centurion", the subject matter is completely different. "Centurion" is based on a real history of the ancient Roman Empire. Against this background, the film uses the protagonist's war experience as a clue to interpret an unresolved historical case.
The war scenes at the beginning of the film are indeed well done. The brutal Roman soldiers, the sharp and cold beautiful knights, and the bloody and gloomy picture quality all give the audience a shocking perspective of a war epic blockbuster, but this feeling I was soon disgusted by the wild escape scene of a few soldiers exhausting their lives. It is said that this relatively open field scene is very suitable for the deployment and play of war scenes. However, the film presents only a low level of cat and mouse. The enemy at the young level chased me and fled.
In fact, in the process of watching the movie, it is still obvious that the director is trying to make some essays during the escape of these seven characters, and use this to play a few cards about discussing human nature. It is a pity that although many weaknesses of human nature, such as fear, betrayal, and suspicion, are reflected in the film, there is no deep digging, only a symbolic tasting. It's the ubiquitous British humor in the film's dialogue, which made me laugh a few times.
Obviously, the director wants to incorporate many elements into the film, such as national hatred and family feud, the cruelty of war, the fragility of human nature, love, and the insidiousness of hegemons. However, these indispensable elements in war films, without a relatively full story structure to support, can only make the film stay in superficial fighting and killing, leaving the audience only limited time. Visual effect. A narrative model like "The Centurion" has gone all the way to black. Although I finally wanted to borrow the hero’s return in love in order to achieve the final sublimation of the theme of the film, unfortunately, in the anticlimactic story structure In front of him, he was helpless.
Therefore, the film is still unable to conceal the weakness and emptiness of the connotation only with the exquisite magnificence of the picture and the pseudo-epic temperament brought by the mysterious historical theme. Of course, it is not useless, and it is definitely not related to the classics, but it is more than enough as a pastime after a meal.
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