A movie is called "Martial Arts", but there is almost no description of the chivalrous spirit. Among the two leading actors, Jin Chengwu is more like a famous detective. Donnie Yen was a killer before reclusive as a good husband, and his reappearance is also for his own small family. In the first half, there are too many anti-martial arts settings. Takeshi Kaneshiro held a magnifying glass, searched for clues, and the detailed display of the medical structure of the human body made people mistakenly think that he was watching a science and education film. In fact, it just shows a problem. There is a serious mix of this film, the style is relatively torn, and how to make these elements that are incompatible with the overall tone of the film look less obtrusive. Chen Kexin obviously did not study it well. Give the audience a physiology lesson. Fortunately, the suspense is not resolved at this moment, and the interest is not dissipated.
Entering the lower part, the style begins to appear violently disconnected, the proportion of martial arts increases, and the previously dominant Jincheng Wu retreats to the second line, giving way to Donnie Yen, achieving an all-round break. Zhen Kungfu continued to be eye-catching, but when he entered the category of action films, the director's tongue could no longer be straightened, and the thunderstorms also increased immediately. This incarnation of Hui Yinghong, who turned into Roaring Aunt, fought for several rounds in the final duel between Wang Yu and Donnie Yen. As a result, the former was finally killed by Takeshi Kaneshiro with a needle. What is the picture? The audience was already shocked.
The selected story is also very interesting. In 1917, when the trend of democracy and republic was surging, the society was undergoing earth-shaking changes, and the border towns in Yunnan were still peaceful, with men farming and women weaving. In such a peach blossom-like place, Chen Kexin wanted to give up everything around him, shut the door, and make up a different kind of martial arts romance, but unfortunately he didn't succeed and couldn't do it.
Martial arts films, a kind of love and pain intertwined, not only did not solve the original predicament at this moment, but fell into another kind of unease. In contrast to the commercial returns, the film finally won a box office of 170 million, which is much better than last year's "Sword Rain", but the story is far less vivid than the latter, and compared with its own costs and publicity expenses, it is estimated that it is also a Money-losing goods. These points are undoubtedly more worthy of attention in the current wave of Hong Kong people going north.
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