This film review refers to related movies:
"Strange Shape"
"Alien"
"Predator"
"abyss"
"Robocop"
"first drop of blood"
The original English name of this film is "Leviathan". This is a "dark" style of warcraft commonly found in music genres. It comes from the book "Job" in the Western mythology "The Bible". The book "Leviathan" "In fact, it is a giant monster fish with indestructible scales and extremely sharp teeth. Cold temperament, murderous and brutal, make other fish creatures and fishermen and crew in the surrounding waters change their colors. In the "Bible", this behemoth has become the endorsement of a complete "demon" and is crowned with "jealousy", one of the seven original sins of mankind. And this American science fiction horror movie, which was released on March 17, 1989, was named after this. (Yes! It's the first birthday of "Chairman Cui"! I don't want to have this "Easter Egg", but it is so coincidental that it is "evil". I think more or less "superstitious" that this is also a kind of life. Or the miracle of "destiny".)
In the movie, the name actually comes from a "former Soviet commercial shipwreck"! Some fans may be puzzled by my "fuss", "What's wrong? What about the former Soviet Union's commercial shipwreck? Isn't it just a bit of ideology in American Hollywood commercial works?" Yes, what I "actually" is Too much "routine" this point, even the incarnation of the "demon" did not forget to insinuate the socialist republic that was about to end at the time-the "Soviet Union". This alone has exposed this film, and there can be nothing more. More memorable content, extremely typical "Cold War" embellishment. I feel that if the deep-sea mining place where the protagonists live in this film is called this name, it would actually be more appropriate. It is clear that you Americans are grabbing deep-sea resources, okay? ! Uh...I am subjective, not American. The factory employed by the protagonist in this movie is "Sanyo Heavy Industries" from Japan. To put it bluntly, it is a "Japanese company" in the United States.
Okay...Anyway, the people who destroy the natural structure of the earth and plunder the ocean resources, without our "America", we are just "employed by people". Really "innocent"! Certainly in the not-so-distant future, if some movie fans read my passage, they will be dissatisfied and think that I am "critical", but I have to write a truth: film/music/literary art forms, including Fine art has some personal consciousness, emotions, and gestures that more or less creators want to express. The film is actually the most "intuitive" kind of ideological statement. Since this film is indeed arranged in such a way, it is hard not to let me have these ideas. Otherwise, the plot development of the film itself and the overall atmosphere effect are indeed slightly inferior. Even some fans of the film have said the truth-"This film pays tribute to the similar theme "Strange Form" in 1982. ....." In fact, once the word "tribute" appears, in my opinion, it is an original movie, an excuse for not being creative enough, and a short board. Why was "Weird" by Capricorn cult director " John Carpenter " in 1982 not "affected" by "Alien" in 1979? That's because the creativity of "Strange Shape" is better than this "Leviathan". Not to mention the "Abyss" directed by the well-known Leo master- " James Cameron " , which was released in August of the same year (1989) also involved "sea life ".
To sum up, if "tribute" is filmed well, it will also become a classic, such as "Pulp Fiction"; but without the diamond, such a so-called "porcelain work" can easily be made into this "Leviathan", which looks somewhat like "Leviathan". Lifeless, and finished hastily. Yes, it's really like a running account. The plot of this movie makes me, of course, just me. It can't represent the different feelings of all fans. I don't feel scared or nervous. From the beginning of the "mining" employee character's ventilator problem, to the accidental discovery of the "former Soviet commercial shipwreck" during the mining process, to the supporting role "employee" in the movie beginning to have strange genetic mutations, until the final heroine and heroine died The photos of the escape from here gave the female "foreman" an old punch... Do you know what type of movie reminds me of it? The texture of this film? "Japanese special drama", yes, Japanese special drama. It can even be written like this. An episode of "Ultraman" is more suspenseful and full of tension than the content of "Leviathan". Not to mention the famous movie special effects master- " Stan Winston " gave the monster life body that finally "fused" in this film, how much "absent-minded" creation, but also "special drama" full of flavor. Full. I’m not writing “special drama” which is “lower” than American commercial science fiction, but rather, judging from the lineup of this movie, it shouldn’t be finished in such a perfunctory way. This movie should actually be somewhat The more unique science fiction is profound, rather than just becoming a "tribute" subsidiary work, but this film, just like this, it can be said to be almost "no waves" towards the end, the impression is indeed a bit "anticlimactic" . And more or less, I think this film has a certain "continuation" plan. In this film, the final cause of the annihilation of the miners and crews should actually be the "split" ocean monster (like a giant Eel), then how is the parasite "combined" by the man and woman who were originally abandoned in the deep sea by their overall mutation? Or is it that the part of the living body that was "separated" in the middle and late stages of the film has been merged with the original "whole" host? It doesn't seem to be the case. And here I want to be more serious: in "Alien", the corpse of the companion that produced "alien life forms" is thrown into space, because space is endless and there is no restriction of "gravity"; what about this "Leviathan" ? Don't forget, this happened in the ocean! And by "The "Captain" and "Doctor" starring Peter Weller and " Richard Crenna " and " Richard Crenna " should know-since the crew’s unidentified cause of death, the genetic mutation should come from the deep sea, then Throwing it into the sea is unlikely to be “reverse”, and it will give such “parasites” room for survival and growth? Didn’t the protagonist ever think about it this way? Yes, there is no “incinerator” for such a large submarine base Is there such a place? It can be regarded as a plot point of "ambiguity", and it is also a science fiction movie with the Chinese translation of "Blood Underwater City". In the end, it can only end up as a "tribute". Most movie fans, even purely "B-level" genre movies forgotten by science fiction fans.
It's not that I insisted on taking a commercial movie to "pretend", but this movie is really not exciting enough. Compared with similar themes in the same period, it is not even flexible enough. The overall plot, and even acting skills, follow the movie. , Slightly rigid. But it must be mentioned that the starring " Peter Weller/Peter Weller " is the actor of the 1987 science fiction film "Robocop" and "Murphy" agent, and the "Doctor" in this film " Richard Crenna/Richard Crenna " is also the actor of the confidant of Colonel Bole of "Rambo" in the 1982 classic hardcore action series "First Blood". And in Hollywood movies in the 1980s and 1990s, there are a lot of familiar faces. For example, the first "victim" of genetic mutation in this film is one of the stupid people who were wicked by the "Little Ghost" in "Home Alone". thief. For those who like Hollywood movies of this period, this movie is still worth watching. But really, a boring science fiction movie, and cliché passages, can be said to be everywhere. Naturally, including all surviving in the end, the "black" crew member who was inevitable in the end, that role, can completely survive.
The soundtrack of this film is still good, from " Jerry Goldsmith/Jerry Goldsmith ", ( Leviathan ) this music master, is also the original soundtrack creator of the first "Alien", his kind of empty space for such science fiction horror movies , Cold, mysterious and unpredictable music control is still in hand. And the beginning of this movie is really like the opening chapter of "Alien", "Predator" and "Weird Shape", which is a kind of "comprehensive". The title of "Leviathan", personally, is actually a more eye-catching theme in this kind of science fiction movie with "monster" as the main core. In fact, it is better to shoot this mythological monster itself directly. "Gene mutation" should be wonderful. But it is a pity that this movie is unsatisfactory even when viewed from the perspective of the time. It is true. At the beginning, I gave the "bad" star rating. I wanted to change it, but after thinking about it, let's forget it. I don’t want to influence other people’s enthusiasm for watching this film. It’s just a lot of In the evaluation, there are indeed "bad reviews" that are not very satisfactory. This is not the "Bible", and I don't need to give Duo Wei a compliment to this film. I really can't boast.
So this film will stop here. If fans and neighbors like this movie, it can be "useless". I just wrote my impressions, and did not say that this movie is "useless". It's just true that the final effect of "Serious Form" is very boring, compared to other such movies of the same period.
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