Director logic or visual hoax? An Ultra American Hero Movie

Gina 2021-12-20 08:01:06

When I saw the title American Ultra for the first time, I couldn't understand its meaning very well. The picture in the brain supplement should be a superhero like Captain America. And when I saw the Chinese translation of his name later, the four words "Wai Chai Special Agent" seemed to have nothing to do with the original title. With some doubts, I started watching the feature film.
First of all, the flashback style of the title, the obvious American style of suspense, is a classic structure that can swell the appetite of the audience and make the film echo the beginning and the end. However, this method requires strong logical expression so that the audience will not be out of touch with the plot. For example, the source code, Inception, Edge of Tomorrow and other films all use the timeline as a very important clue to the film, and then pass through the brain world. Expand interspersed space. However, this "Waste Agent" did not process these clues, but mechanically put the expression in the film. After watching the film halfway through, the logic of the film is still not well understood. The progress of the plot has a strong trace of the director's self-arrangement, and the transition is slightly unnatural.
With the deepening of the plot and slowly clarifying the plot, I began to enjoy this so-called extreme American blockbuster. The first is the humorous details of the plot. The male protagonist Mike is just under the appearance of a normal person, adding a lot of strange settings, such as being called, he will agree to it, the enemy also reminds him that there is a gun on the ground, and the most unreasonable departure from the city. It’s about to vomit~ But such a man who is so dazzling and witty has a beautiful and witty girl who promises her, and listens tirelessly to Mike's narration of the story of his own superhero Rocket Monkey. This kind of design Certainly, this man must be exceptional. Numerous foreshadowings broke out overnight, and before the audience had time to react, the male protagonist had already linked up with the CIA. It is also a superhero experiment, the same routine as Captain America, Ant-Man, and the Hulk. This brings the logic of the superhero into the movie, and the whole movie has begun to enter the right track of heroes saving the United States and saving the world.
One of the biggest highlights of this movie is the extraordinary acting and appearance of the hero and the heroine. Daniel of the Now You See Me and Isabella of Twilight are directly paired to take off, purifying the eyeballs from the beginning. The fighting scene after entering the climax inherited the visual impact of the American blockbuster, rendering the original slightly bloody picture with a micro-comic-style effect. No matter how intense the plot, it will be interspersed with funny and humorous scenes in detail. The extreme neurotic heroic hero and the extreme resolute and elegant heroine used their extreme methods to calm this sudden crisis and save this Ultra movie. American hero movie~

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Extended Reading
  • Ulises 2022-04-22 07:01:32

    Literary action movie...

  • Theodora 2022-04-22 07:01:32

    Originally it was a cool script, killing a bunch of people covered in blood to propose marriage, almost caught up with the natural born killer, but these two have no sense of CP at all.

American Ultra quotes

  • Victoria Lasseter: Do you remember when you were arrested when you were 18 for the acid? That was when we first met. I was recruiting for a program called Wiseman. Which was basically designed to take third strike misdemeanor offenders and offer them the opportunity to volunteer.

    Mike Howell: Volunteer? For what?

    Victoria Lasseter: To be an experiment.

    Mike Howell: An experiment?

    Victoria Lasseter: Yeah.

    Mike Howell: That was a mistake.

    Victoria Lasseter: No, but Mike, you worked. All the other subjects that came in, they were all failures. But not you. You were a success, but it was driving you insane. It was driving everybody insane. The risks weren't worth the rewards. So I shut it down, and I gave you all new lives and new identities. A fresh start here.

    Mike Howell: Yeah. So you erased my memories and you fucked with my head. And you left me here with a fake girlfriend.

    Victoria Lasseter: This isn't who you always were. The slow thinking, the inability to leave town. The phobias. We did that to protect you.

    Mike Howell: To protect me? Well, tell that to the guys who are trying to kill me.

  • Mike Howell: If I die, I'm going to do it stoned and smiling in my bed.