Although the "Resident Evil" series, as the mainstay of the zombie genre, has always been widely concerned by fans, the film's wanton changes to the game's plot, as well as the director Paul Anderson, who suffers from "wife madness", are unrestrained in the film. The expression of love for his wife caused the series to decline all the way after starting from a low starting point.
Until the release of "Resident Evil 6" this year, the word of mouth also fell to the bottom. As a result, many fans pin their hopes on the latest CG animation "Resident Evil: Revenge".
The first two CG animations of "Resident Evil" are not only of excellent quality, but also more loyal to the game, and are deeply loved by fans, and this "Resident Evil: Revenge" has invited the director of "The Grudge" series Takashi Shimizu and the real person The version of "Mobile Police" Tsujimoto Takashi worked together to create, it seems foolproof!
However, "Resident Evil: Revenge" still fluttered! And the flutter was quite miserable. The foreign media IGN only gave a low score of 4.5, and the passing line was not reached.
The most fascinating point in "Resident Evil" is the proliferation of all kinds of terrifying zombies, creating a terrifying atmosphere. Although the protagonists have stunts and can always survive in danger, but their experience is very small. The joy that makes people addicted is more of a lingering tremor.
Takashi Shimizu was supposed to be good at creating an atmosphere of terror, but he played it wrong in this film.
At the beginning of the film, the night scene of arresting the arms dealer Arias in the ancient house is very exciting. Under the bright moonlight, in the gloomy and dim old house, the toy car that suddenly started, the zombie child who was bitten by the slit, the half zombie that looked like a female ghost, crawled on the spine, and the soldiers who were running for their lives were suddenly cut by steel wires. Fragments...this is typical Resident Evil, horror! interesting!
However, after this night scene, the horror atmosphere of the film disappeared. Although there were many scenes of fighting with zombies, they all looked like ordinary adventure movies without any sense of horror.
Shimizu Taka-sama's level only lasted for a few minutes in the film, and then he went offline, woe!
Not only that, Shimizu Takashi and Tsujimoto Taka seem to be not very familiar with zombie culture. There are three kinds of zombies in the film: ordinary zombies, zombie dogs, and tyrants. The three types of zombies have their own characteristics, but these characteristics are not well presented.
For example, ordinary zombies, when they appear alone, the risk factor is not large, unless they appear unexpectedly, such as the zombie boy who appeared in the opening night play, when everyone relaxes their vigilance, he suddenly starts to show hideousness, and the effect is particularly good. Coupled with the unique infection method of zombies, a zombie will soon cause a large number of casualties.
It is a pity that this classic mode of a single zombie never appeared again in the subsequent plot.
When ordinary zombies appear in large numbers, there will be a group effect, which will make the powerful characters fall into trouble instantly. The most classic is "Zombie World War", where a large number of zombies gather to form an extremely spectacular scene. As in "Crisis 1", getting an elevator full of zombies, although the scene is not big, it is enough to fill your entire field of vision, and you feel a sense of danger. In this film, there has never been such a group effect. When Chris went to rescue Rebecca, he encountered more zombies, but not enough, and no siege was formed.
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Another example is the zombie dog, its characteristic is fast, how to avoid its attack, the test is the character's agility and the wisdom of making full use of the environment, but the film even arranges Leon to ride a motorcycle and fight the zombie dog, alas, the dog Of course, they can't run the car. This arrangement makes the advantage of zombie dogs disappear, and the fight between them lacks technical content and looks rough.
Then, there is the tyrant. The tyrant in the film has gone through two stages before and after the restriction. It is quite authentic, but it is very mediocre in terms of expressing its characteristics. Except for grinning and waving fists, it feels like a King Kong in zombie skin, which does not reflect at all. The ruthlessness and oppression of a tyrant.
Failure to grasp the characteristics of zombies means that their power is not fully exerted, and the thrilling degree of the plot is greatly reduced.
To tell the truth, Resident Evil is neither scary nor thrilling, what else is there to see?
In addition, the character creation, the film is also a failure.
The positive characters this time, Rebecca, Chris, and Leon are all old faces. It is reasonable to say that shaping their images is easy. The Walking Dead does not have any inner emotional portrayal. Rebecca's existence is only to provide an antidote, and Chris and Leon's existence is only to fight zombies. The positive characters are collectively reduced to props, and they are also drunk!
The choice of these three popular characters to return may be to arouse the feelings of fans, but this way of returning may be difficult to arouse the emotions of fans. After all, what everyone wants to see is a flesh-and-blood character, not a familiar one. 's skin.
Arias, the villain with the most ink, is relatively plump, but the sense of routine is too strong. In order to avenge his lover, he embarks on the road of paranoia. This kind of story is really old-fashioned. Moreover, his IQ is still very low, and the tyrant is still there, so he takes out a gun and shoots the protagonist. Is he confident or stupid? You haven't run out of cards yet, what are you doing?
The unsatisfactory performance of this work also ended the record of the series of CG animations crushing live-action movies, and the two eventually came to the same conclusion.
Live-action movies and CG animations have rushed, which makes people feel that this IP has come to an end. However, the German Konstantin Films has confirmed that it will restart the "Resident Evil" series and plans to make six movies, so... This matter is not over, whether it will be brilliant again, or will it continue to rot without a lower limit, we will wait and see!
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