Action drama: Donnie Yen, your mother told you to go home as an actor
. It is undeniable that Jet Li (watching movies and TV works online) has faded out of the film world in recent years. Jackie Chan focuses more on his personal show on the political stage. , "Ip Man" and "Ip Man 2" continued to explode and became the most appealing action star in the Chinese language market. Later, "Guan Yunchang", "Martial Arts", "Havoc in Heaven" and so on came on stage one after another.
However, a good action star is not necessarily an excellent action director, even if the action guidance of "A Thousand Chance Change" and "Slaying the Wolf" has made Yen Zidan received a lot of praise. In the "Jing Wu Feng Yun Chen Zhen", a blockbuster that sells action dramas and national emotions, Yen Zidan set himself up with a series of deadly moves such as parkour, boxing, and kicking, but obviously, there are none in the film. Humans are his opponents, so Chen Zhen’s parkour dodge machine gun on the European battlefield at the beginning of the game hit a fatal blow. It was tense and exciting. In the middle, a little change was added, namely bounce kicks (but Yen Zidan’s symbolic " "Three feet in the sky", in the film "Jingwu Fengyun: Chen Zhen" through the editing position, in other words, the film does not truly show his serial tripods, but has obvious editing montages), and repeatedly Repeatedly... OK, those men of the Japanese army are incompetent, and the officer would never be so "useless"-but the movie is so far beyond your imagination, when the opposing officer is just a series of When Chen Zhen’s punches beat Chen Zhen half to death and you think that this is an opponent who is at least well-matched in martial arts, Chen Zhen thinks that now it’s a national crisis and “resurrected” with a series of punches, and beat the opponent half to death, comparable In the final battle of "Ip Man", the Japanese officers lacked the ability to fight back, and even went straight to catch up with the Japanese Boss who did not understand martial arts at the end of "Ip Man".
The scene where Chen Zhen singled out 150 Japanese samurai in Hongkou Dojo, which was repeatedly legendary before the release, is comparable to the group battle scene in "Red Cliff"—it's just a personal show of Chen Zhen alone, plus the monotony of the background ("Hacker" "Empire 3" and "Wolf Tooth" have similar heads-up scenes, and with the cooperation of rain scenes, they have a more cinematic feel), which seems very weak.
What's more, compare Jet Li and Donnie Yen’s two rival scenes in "Once Upon A Time", or compare Jet Li's different styles of play against different opponents in "Hero of Heroes" and how he was at a disadvantage in the final Hongkou Dojo battle. After taking a counter-attack and turning defeat into victory, "Jingwu Fengyun·Chen Zhen", which was calm and unmatched, became a personal show of Yen Zidan. Donnie Yen, it's good for your mother to ask you to go home and become an actor. Let someone else do the action guidance.
Literary opera: Huang Qiusheng, Huang Bo’s soy sauce, abrupt
action of love, fighting scenes are already so repetitive, monotonous and boring. In terms of literary opera, although the creator gave a gorgeous beginning with the European war scene in the opening minutes, then it was twenty. In the mid-century war gestation period, there were turbulences under the calm surface, but it is a pity that the background of the times is only a stage for Yen Zidan to express his personal abilities, unlike films such as "Men's Self-improvement" and "Fighting Heroes", the two complement each other.
The performance of other actors besides Donnie Yen also seemed to be playing soy sauce. Huang Qiusheng plays a Shanghai gang tycoon, but there is not much to show his ability or courage throughout the film. He is more like a pimp; Huang Bo plays the head of the patrol house in the film more like he is in charge. The "two" in the film, a hippy smiling face who is greedy for life and fear of death, but suddenly becomes a hero who is very patriotic and regards death as his home. There is not enough foreshadowing. The so-called "undercover" played by Donnie Yen doesn't seem to get much information, but his identity is Soon after the beginning of the film, everyone knew each other well; the love story between Shu Qi and Donnie Yen was reduced to a few lines in the eyes, and he immediately asked him to take her to his brother (causing his identity to be exposed in advance) ...
In fact, there are many details in the first half of the film that can be used well, such as the group of Chinese laborers who participated in the European war at the opening, the courage of Japanese officers and the cruel and cruel way to achieve goals, and the external and internal troubles at the time. However, under the director’s treatment, the geese went to the lake without taking a picture. The glimpse was not amazing, and the background and theme of the film were wasted alive.
In addition, the soundtrack interspersed throughout the film is obviously too "good sound" and overwhelming. When I watched "Feng Yun 2" in the theater at the end of last year, the high-intensity sound effects interspersed throughout the film greatly concealed the sound of dialogue and fighting between the characters, and a similar situation appeared in "Fighting Storm: Chen Zhen" with great sound effects ( But it’s not the loudness of the atmosphere, but the noise-like sound), which seems to be covering up the weakness of the plot or the monotony of the action scene. However, film production is not a shrew cursing the street. The loud voice is not necessarily justified, but it highlights its own. Guilty conscience. It is recommended that filmmakers learn how to integrate sound and plot in films such as "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "Blade Runner".
On the whole, this action drama is simply repetitive and boring, the literary drama is abrupt and boring, and the climax drama lacks the climax of "Jingwu Fengyun·Chen Zhen". It only has a gorgeous opening, followed by deteriorating conditions, until the final "unfinished" ( It's not even as good as the final show of Guo Fucheng and Zou Zhaolong at the end of the previous work "The City Guard"), and became a work below the passing standard.
Mu Pishen (Film Critic)
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