Good action but chaotic plot

Ken 2022-01-18 08:02:55

Tsui Hark is back, he'd better make an action movie! The action of "Seven Swords" is very "shaped", which makes people excited and happy to watch. The design of the seven swords is particularly interesting. The most "exciting" thing is Yang Caini's Heavenly Waterfall Sword; it can also be left or right, so that the enemy can't touch it, but if you don't know how to use it, it is also a weapon that can hurt yourself.

Unfortunately, although the action is good-looking, but the drama is weak. The plot of the previous part was too fast, as if rushing to the end, Wu Yuanying and Han Zhibang went to Tianshan in a blink of an eye, and in a blink of an eye they gained the trust of Master Huiming, and then presented the second of the seven swords, which made the audience puzzled. But in the middle, the plot focused on the feelings between Goryeo's Luzhu and Chu Zhaonan, as if to give Kim So-yeon a period of time to play. Is this move to sell the city in South Korea? Later, it was even more funny, as if to "speak" everyone's background to the audience. Using dialogue to explain the identity of the three swords in the seven swords was really the most "low-pretend" (bad meaning) technique. Also, in the end, the relationship between Fenghuoliancheng and Luzhu is unclear. Are they the same person or two people? I can't tell the difference after reading it. Chief Tsui Hark, let's use the "fighting to death" (only fighting) technique of the Huang Feihong series to make movies.

The casting is serious and good this time. Although most of the actors are actors who are not known by the Hong Kong audience, they all perform well. The most prominent is that they are very arrogant and have outstanding personalities such as Xin Longzi, Liu Yufang, and Liu Yufang. Han Zhibang and Mulang are also very good. In addition, the funniest thing in the whole drama is the name of Zhang Huazhao's father!

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  • Joannie 2022-04-19 09:02:44

    The impression seems to be okay, but I don't remember anything, just remember a bunch of people died

  • Ulises 2022-04-19 09:02:44

    The pros and cons are all too obvious, but I still give it four stars for the final battle. Tsui Hark really shouldn't choose this book to shoot, it is almost the field of literature, art and martial arts that he is least good at. From the beginning to the end, there is a strong sense of discomfort, the emotional drama is particularly blunt, the strength of the enemy is too great, the beacon can't even beat one of the seven swords, and a traitor can directly slaughter the village. Even the most important seven swords appearing in the battle feels chaotic. Is it necessary to write the ghost line "the two of us almost got there that night"? Some of Sun Honglei's words are also very funny, Yang Caini, why did you grow up together with other people's spoken language so much. Of course, the parts that Tsui Hark is good at, such as the Raiders, still perform well as always. The most exciting scene is when Guageluo hits the sword, the picture suddenly turns red.