looking forward to this movie for a long time, far better than "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins". Just a while ago, I was relived the video of the famous female martial arts Hong Kong movie, and played "Golden Books", which caused the martial arts complex to spread. Sweeping the comments, although the picky Zhizhi brother has always been hot, but Erguo has sang praises, and the psychological balance suddenly shifted. With the purpose of arguing with my brother, I rushed into the cinema. Disappointed, hey, although Brother Renzhi is silly, he really speaks in place.
Fan Xiaoxuan, it turns out that I am not a fan of your brains
at the beginning of watching the movie. It is interesting. The section of Longjiang Shipyard was played cleanly. The knights and the treacherous, guilt and pleasure, brush Lala very simply. Who knows I let this start deceive, under the fairly lively appearance, regardless of the plot setting or the character creation, the script level is too weak. Not to mention the "New Dragon Inn" of that year, it is said that Old Monster Xu's "Tongtian Empire" last year was much better than this one. At least the story is quite well-formed, and the inheritance and transformation are step by step.
In the Hu Jinquan version, take "New Dragon Inn" as an example: the main line has a clear purpose-one kill and one guarantee. Although there are three forces, it is the duality bureau that is mixed; the rhythm of the story is clear, indicating the intention of the two parties, the inn The tripartite entanglement is a succession, and the last battle is happy and enmity. In "Flying Armor of Dragon Gate", after the opening scene, the whole story line is unclear: on the one hand, Zhao Huaian takes the initiative to challenge, on the other hand, it is the inexplicable line of chasing court ladies. Although it was later explained that the second line was directly related to the main line, it was actually a simple confession of attracting various forces to the Longmen Inn. As for it, is it so complicated - and it hasn't been done yet. Later, I figured it out. This is not to serve the plot at all, but to spread out a few more dramas and dazzle 3D.
Well, when everyone comes to Longmen Inn, there should be something to watch. After playing a few games inexplicably, hey! The confrontation between the parties, which could have been quite tense, was quickly unified. Especially for several drinking scenes of various forces, look at how to deal with it in "New Dragon Inn": the chivalrous man and the eunuch are silent on the surface, they are fighting in secret, Jin Xiangyu is in the middle, laughing and mediating, secretly making small calculations. It's a sheep, and it's a small nine-nine on three sides. Putting it here, except for a few bluffing shouts from both sides, the tension disappeared. As for the cooperation between the inn and Zhao Huai'an, apart from continuing to show off the 3D play, there is no dramatic transition. The complexity of the people in the rivers and lakes can not be seen, and the alliance of interests has not been seen. Everyone is an obedient little white rabbit.
This confrontation is not even a few rounds, and the big decisive battle that should have ended is staged ahead of schedule. This strategy was barely designed to be considered qualified, but the performance was weak, and it was passed. Soon the two sides lost their casualties, leaving only the boss duel. The duel was not over yet, and suddenly changed from a martial arts movie to the Lost City of Tomb Raiders. If you really want to join the Jones element, it's okay, just do it well. As a result, this drama reached an inexplicable peak: inexplicable negotiations between the two sides; inexplicable reversal by the court ladies; inexplicable defeat by the father-in-law. At the end of the series of inexplicable things, the protagonist of a man and a woman ran away inexplicably, and finally created a Minggong mystery inexplicably-God, don't play with me, dear, is this really Tsui Hark's work? How do I think it's Takashi-kun Miike who always loves to end? ?
This is still a big clue, and it is even more brain-dead to the culmination in the design of the specific bridge section. Like the court lady's helper Zhao Huaian making the female shopkeeper jealous, which harem drama was inspired by this? Without such a sudden emotion, I think Zhao Huaian is almost laughing; it is like Ha Gang's trick to lure Lv Bu for a while, and the lines are bludgeoning, but I will do it again after I live; like Zhao Huai'an instructed to kill the bow and arrow. Hand, Lala said so much, I thought it was such a powerful character, a flagpole gave him a bento, persuasion time is longer than the fighting time; like the tripartite negotiation in the palace, it has almost no impact on the main line. The dialogue is procrastinated and useless. Tsui Hark, aren't you the best at joking to ease the rhythm? How come they are all wooden people now?
On top of such a weak story, you don't want to see any normal people. Last time I saw a classmate who said that all the positive characters in this film are very two-sided. You are too polite, classmate, more than the positive ones, they are all very two-sided. The only thing that can be seen is that Chen Kun's Fenglidao still has a bit of flavor. It seems that there is still a bit of charm from Zhang Guoqiang in "Sword Horse Dan" and Liang Kuan in "Lion King's Hegemony". All other roles are unqualified. Jet Li’s Zhao Huaian is the fighting chicken in martial arts-the whole film is his tireless fighting, fighting, and fighting; Zhou Xun’s character comes and goes without reason, you must be seriously injured, right? Is Brigitte Lin who is about to jump off the cliff in "The Unbeaten East", how elegant? Chen Kun's reverse number one is good, but I scanned it with the glasses in the Dragon Ball and found that the decimal point was constantly jumping on the zeros behind his combat power number. It was 50.000000 for a while and 5000000.0 for a while.
Finally, I have to talk about Fan Xiaoxuan. I knew how excited she was to act in this movie, but I had to painfully discover that she was the number one thunderbolt in the film. It was originally discovered that the design was not clever by her screaming repeatedly, and what was even less clever was that she was still an undercover agent-in the eighth inning, how did Xichang train you? Don't you know how to be prudent to be an undercover agent? Revealing your identity should also be low-key. Chen Yongren's "stewed hen, guess forbearance" is undesirable. Did Lin Jiadong get a headshot without seeing him? So if you want to talk about your own martial arts and tactics, the other party can't handle it, and you will be given a second by Chung in an instant. Xiao Xuan Xuan, don't you think so? Can't you pick a better book next time?
3d for success and 3d for failure.
When it comes to scripts that are big enough to sail a boat, I think to a large extent I am tired of the performance of the scene. To put it bluntly, I just want to be worthy of its biggest selling point-3d.
I haven't watched other domestic 3D movies. At least this one is not bad compared to the US 3D movies I have watched. At least in the imax theater, I didn't see any obvious omissions. The performance of 3d itself is considered a special effect, so even if it is an ordinary fight, it will add a bit of effect. The best performance is the beginning. Although the overhead shot of the opening motion of "Tong Tian Empire" is virtual, and the shots passing through the frames are almost always to show the 3D effect, but I have to admit that in this scene, The momentum of the whole film came out, and it looked like a blockbuster. And the wooden pillars flying out of the fight in the shipyard did add a lot of shock. Similarly, in some big scenes, like sandstorm performance, 3D feels good, but in small scenes, I feel more that Tsui Hark is tired of 3D-he wants to highlight this technology too much. The effect was achieved, but he shrank away from the tricks and weapons that he was good at. Fighting often becomes a simple close-up of the face and shoulders. You can see the sword brushing in front of you, but you can't see the specific moves at all. And Chun Ge and Fan Xiaoxuan simply pay tribute to "Butterfly Change", and the hidden weapons fly randomly. This is to say it better. The ugly point is that they have poor martial arts skills. Chun Ge and the pure men have the power to play big swords. Fan Xiaoxuan can only play. Click on the light silk.
There are only two highlights in the martial arts design in the whole show: one is Chun Ge’s hidden weapon, which has a chain reaction, and is a little hard to guard against when it continues to fly; the other is an anti-Chen Kun weapon, a Western-style wide-striped sword with flying knives in it. Flexible. Although Jet Li's chain war sword has some highlights, the double chain sword war with pearls and jade in the middle of "The Knife" is in front of him. After all, Old Monster Xu still pays tribute to himself. Other martial arts designs are a bit mediocre, anyway, as long as the 3D effects are good, they are all lively enough, and generally no one cares about it. It's a pity that this kind of quickness is Tsui Hark's strong point, but this time he didn't play much at all.
In fact, even though we have always said that old monsters love innovation. But his innovation is often in soft technology, that is, strategy, bridge design and some ideas on shooting methods. Pursuing a breakthrough from a hard technical point of view is not a strong point (this is actually a shortcoming of a Chinese director). The hard 3d this time exposed this shortcoming in a sense and greatly restricted his performance. "Tong Tian Empire" is far from the top sequence of his works, but the various designs of the ghost town are so interesting. In this film, I rarely see the crazy boss, I only see him who is struggling hard by the word 3d.
Goodbye, rivers and lakes
The old monster is most often praised for his feelings. The most regrettable thing about this film is precisely the lack of feelings.
It's strange to say that the elements of the chain linking the river, the lonely smoke in the desert, and the water hitting the stream are not bad, but why does Hu Weili's music feel no longer at all?
Jianghu, don't care how many sects and disputes you show. It lies in whether you can imagine beyond the picture given by the lens. The imperial court brought by the elements of the West Factory is not enough for the people to live in? No, we only saw an arrogant and frustrated boss. The sinister fate brought by the treasure element? No, we only saw a group of mobs from all corners of the country closely uniting in a team with Comrade Zhao Huaian as the core. The children's love brought by Xiao Di's elements is speechless and choking? No, there are only two second-hands who don't even bother to be hypocritical and fight side by side. You are crazy and I am stupid. In the past, Tsui Hark’s films did not dare to say how exquisite the script was, but at least the goal was clear and the rhythm was bright, Old Monster Xu had plenty of room to add to his ideals. This time, the content is still a sequel, but maybe the people in the rivers and lakes are also dragged by business impetuously. The wonderful people in the past can only be pursued in Fang Hongye's record.
Erguo lamented that Old Monster Xu didn't memorize the poem this time, it was more than two lines of poetry, and his mood was gone. This is not the elegy and lament after the end of the West brought by "Unforgivable", but a nondescript quagmire dream, and finally woke up from the urine.
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