Text / Wu Shaoxu
Originally published in Wenzhou Evening News
When I watched "Die Hard 5", I was drowsy by the mediocre and boring plot. It was not until I watched "Resident Evil 5" that I realized that the former plot was already a huge luxury for the audience. The plot of "Biochemical 5" is basically in a stagnant state. At the beginning, Alice's self-introduction is the most storytelling and informative scene in the whole film. Make up 90 minutes.
A movie can come from a game, but it is a sin to make a movie like a game. Remember that director Paul Anderson once said that a game is a game and a movie is a movie. It is a pity that he failed to implement his idea or was unable to implement it effectively. "Resident Evil 5" is completely a game movie, with a blank plot, simple and rude, a group of macho men and hot women are fully armed and armed with machine guns. Passing the level, the horrific and vicious zombies and biochemical monsters were knocked down by headshots one by one, as if they were here to give away the experience. Although the scene was hot, there was no sense of movie immersion, and it was intense throughout. The high-spirited soundtrack is even more hilarious, purely electronic music!
The movie "Resident Evil 5" has a boring plot and heavy game traces. Paul Anderson used this new 3D packaging to pile up flooded special effects scenes and uncontrolled noise throughout the movie. From the beginning of the film to the end of the film, until at the end Alice and others blew up the underground laboratory and returned to the ground, and finally quieted for a while, thinking that the film was over, and unexpectedly came an extremely climactic action scene, and The two extremely powerful female villains were finally solved very simply, and the design was too mediocre. The fifth "Resident Evil 5" can be said to take each director's own use in terms of story type and art style, but it lacks its own unique style. As a zombie film, you can still see zombies in the first half, and the second half is completely reduced to a hodgepodge of various types such as "The Matrix", "Alien", "Wolverine", "The Lord of the Rings" and so on. The shadow of the film, and in terms of fighting style, Alice is fighting against a group of corpses in the laboratory corridor. The continuous and continuous slow motion is purely Ang Lee.
After watching the movie, if I have to find a bright spot and leave a little impression on me, it is a scene of Alice and her cloned "daughter". When the "daughter" was taken away by the biochemical demon, Alice resolutely chose to go to the rescue. Although the "daughter" was just a clone made by the umbrella company and entered the memory, Alice understood that for the cloned "daughter" , everything is real. This reminds me of movies such as "Escape from the Clone Island" and "Don't Let Me Go" that explored the spiritual world of clones. Living is a memory. In the fleeting time, only memories are left. Who is it? Can it be said that the clone with this memory never lived? It's just that when one day the clone finds that his memory has been artificially input, the sadness will be heart-wrenching.
I watched "Longwei 5" and "Biochemical 5" one after another, and I feel that the quality of the sequel movies in recent years has become more and more inferior. Throughout the film history, I feel that the sequel movies can truly be made into classics and continue to be classics. Only " The Godfather series and The Lord of the Rings series. A truly timeless classic movie cannot be continued. Who has seen the sequel movies of "Gone with the Wind", "The Sound of Music" and "Roman Holiday"? However, in recent years, domestic and foreign sequel films have been flooded with disasters, and the psychology of misappropriation is obvious. With the good reputation of the previous film, the sequel film not only saves a lot of publicity costs, but also has a basic guarantee at the box office. Can't let things go. But the rush to shoot sequels also stifled the originality of the film. I have been addicted to fried cold rice, how can I have fresh rice to eat?
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