In fact, the main reason is that the scenes of Yu Ting Fan Zhong and Shi Jian were cut too badly, which caused the rhythm and ending to be a bit nondescript and there were obvious hidden dangers of big loopholes.
In the original original work, the scene of Sinaisen Cangzi should have appeared in the previous showdown with the evil merchant. Cangzi brought the four ghosts of the imperial court to fight with Jianxin and the evil merchant. The result was In front of the evil merchant's Grimm heavy machine gun, the samurai's skills became fragile. The four ghosts of the royal court died under the machine gun for the leader, and Jianxin and Cangzi put down their suspicions and jointly defeated the evil merchant. Although the sacrifice of the Four Ghosts made Cang Zi no longer fight Jianxin to death for the time being, his road to Asura did not stop but went further.
However, the previous movie completely cut off the appearance of Yu Tingban, and the scene was transferred to a few original characters. For example, the trick of stopping Kamiya MM's breathing with his eyes was originally the trick of Yu Tingban four ghosts, which is actually nothing. Because in the last part, it is completely self-explanatory.
But after you have severely cut off the Royal Court scene and removed most of Cang Zi’s reasoning and rationality for taking the Asura Road, you only let him appear on the stage belatedly in the second part, and this character is weak. There are too many, and the recognition of his turning face with his own old man is much lower, and there is also a small fucking scene, which is also weakened a lot. Over the cliff, this is a big part of Xiaocao’s charm.) In fact, instead of letting them play so thinly, it would be better to just cut off all of the scenes of the Yutidaban. It is better to not have it, so the time saved can be saved. Used to pave the way for ten blades. In particular, the scene taught to the monk of Sachanosuke Niezhong is a very important plot that highlights the crimes of the Meiji government. I can't think of how this scene will be placed in the next sequel. The reason will be explained later.
The result of not properly coordinating the role scenes is that although 120 minutes has been a long time, many key plots and characters still appear weak, and the Kyoto Fire chapter ends before Kenshin and Shishio have time to talk about the decisive battle. Not only is the movie so messy in this one, I can only look forward to the sequel, and I am less optimistic about the sequel now.
why? Because in the original work, Sanosuke was on the way to Kyoto, and learned from the monk to double strength, and Shishio was going to bombard the iron-clad ship in Edo but was stopped by Kenshin and the others without sailing. Now the Shishio iron-clad ship It’s all set sail, but your sword heart jumped into the sea as a soup chicken... From Edo to Kyoto, it is only 500 kilometers. With the average speed of 15 knots on the steam iron boat in the Meiji era, you can drive from Kyoto to the river without a day. Okay?
In other words, within a day, if Kenshin can't catch up with Zhizhixiong's iron-clad ship, then Edo will be smashed by him.
At the end, he carried Luotangji Jianshin on his back. Was that Hiko Seijuuro? How can you learn some sword skills from Kiyoshi Juro in such a little time and pave the way for the tragic past of the ten-blade monk? (Of course, I can actually come up with a few tricks. For example, the encounter between Zuo Zhisuke and the monk has already happened in the movie timeline. Just go to the next flashback and flash back). But in general, this one has disrupted the rhythm of the original, and the characterization is severely damaged except for the main character. I am really worried about the rhythm of the next one.
It is estimated that I will have to insert a large part of the original plot in the next one. I want to break my head just how to prevent Zhizhixiong from bombarding Edo within 24 hours. I guess I can only make Zhizhixiong commit some villains. The old problem, if you don’t hurriedly fire the cannons and threaten the government to do this and give Kenshin a chance to board the ship, nine out of ten are so...
Actually, I don’t mind adapting the original work or creating an original plot—the premise is that you have to do it. It is better or at least comparable to the original, but in this one, it is obvious that the producer failed to manage the adapted plot, and failed to deal with the weak characterization and chaotic rhythm of the plot caused by his original creation. I have to say that it is a relatively big shortcoming.
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