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
  • Okey 2022-04-22 07:01:32

    I had experienced Nima's "Project X" before, so I had certain expectations for this film, but I didn't expect Nima to let me down! The love line was relatively successful, but after the main drama started, the plot became more and more conventional, and the announcement of the heroine's identity destroyed the remaining originality, and this Nima's action scene was too ordinary.

  • Cade 2022-04-24 07:01:13

    Are they all spies of this level?

American Ultra quotes

  • Mike Howell: Yo, Phoebe, where are we going?

    Phoebe: We are leaving. We are getting the fuck out of town!

    Mike Howell: No, I can't leave town. You know that.

    Phoebe: Well, you didn't have people trying to kill you before, I was thinking maybe that could motivate us here.

    Mike Howell: Okay, fine, so where do you want to go?

    Phoebe: Oh fuck, I don't know!

    Mike Howell: Alright listen. We'll take my car and we'll go to Rose's house, okay?

    Phoebe: What? You want to get high right now? Mike?

    Mike Howell: No! I don't want to get high. Rose has like guns and shit, okay. He can help us hide out and I'm still in handcuff.

    Phoebe: Okay, you are not in any position to be making the plan right now.

    Mike Howell: Really? Well, who is? The cops are all dead.

    Phoebe: The guy in the thing. In the cell thing, doesn't see the gun, You don't point at it and go, gun!

    Mike Howell: Okay, no I recognize that now as, like, a faux pas. I'm sorry.

    Phoebe: And if someone who's trying to kill you goes "wait!" You don't go, oh what do you want to talk about?

    Mike Howell: Okay! You're right. I'm sorry. Please just don't yell at me, okay?

  • Sheriff Watts: How many times have you been in this station, Mike? Since you were 22? Your probation officer must be the Michael Jordan of bullshitters because I've never seen you gone more than a couple of hours. Mike, tell me you didn't kill these people.

    Phoebe: They attacked him. He was defending himself.

    Sheriff Watts: Excuse me?

    Phoebe: What was he supposed to do?

    Sheriff Watts: You're his girlfriend. You're his mom. You're his maid. You're his landlady. Now you're his lawyer?

    Mike Howell: It was just a thing. It was just a thing that happened. I didn't mean to.

    Sheriff Watts: You didn't mean to? Two men are dead, Mike. There's no walking away this time.