The only features of this film are probably the interesting beginning and the long shots of special effects. It can be seen that the money is really smashed, but it feels that it is not in the right place. With the same budget, it feels like a fifth element plus Super body, if it wasn't for Luc Besson's directing, the finished film would look like another movie made by Disney.
Although the title and background setting are "City of a Thousand Stars", this film can be said to have completely abandoned the concept of "City of Thousand Stars", and the proportion of "City of Thousand Stars" involved in several main scenes of the film is only about half , and the scenes shown are not "especially amazing". For example, at the beginning, a lot of time was spent describing a market that can be seen everywhere on the earth. The only "feature" is that the dimensions are different. That red light district has almost all cyberpunk movies, the underwater world is too short, is that aboriginal kingdom a joke, how terrible it was at the beginning, it turned out to be a primitive tribe, what happened to the primitive tribes on earth surrounded by high-tech countries everyone It's not that I don't know. On the contrary, the seemingly new areas of "City of a Thousand Stars", such as the financial empire, are basically not involved, and many shots are also in the human spaceship room. I can feel that this setting still has potential, but this big screen tour of this world due to the wrong force is the end of it.
In terms of the plot, if it is put into Star Trek, there is no problem at all. The hero and heroine can become the captain and Spock, and they are also much better than the chemical reaction between the hero and heroine in this film, not to mention the factors of the actors themselves, As soon as the relationship between the male and female protagonists came up, they went in the direction of marriage, so that the audience had no time to feel good about their interaction. On the contrary, the sympathy and admiration for the Pearl Stars was much stronger than that of the male and female protagonists. It is also the only success of this film. Create an image. The villain Owen had a very good aura when he first appeared, and there were some small actions behind his back. In the end, he was lying dead all the time, more like a cameo role, and his appearance time was not as good as Wu Yifan, and Wu Yifan and the lesser-known commander almost always appeared at the same time, they There should be more emotional drama in between. As for the little monster in the cornucopia, something as important as nuclear weapons is actually pinned to the heroine's waist most of the time. . . This is also the only contribution of the male and female protagonists in the whole film, a porter with a flawed setting, not to mention the inexplicable "confiscation" remarks of the male protagonist at the end directly kicked the audience's emotions to the bottom. .
Counting Spider-Man, the male protagonist has at least two sci-fi blockbusters, or is it more suitable for him to have super power out of control, a film that describes the inner tangle of the character itself. , I thought to myself that I was not afraid of dying from an accident when my hair got hooked. This is also how to deal with the problem of those supermodels in the movie. In contrast, the way of Miller's Mad Max is a good example. There is Li Jiaxin under Tsui Hark.
While watching this film, I miss the fifth element, and I feel that in addition to the budget, the fifth element really crushes this film in all directions. The part of Rayhanna feels like it wants to copy the classic opera part, but it is far less aura and amazing than singing opera, not to mention that it is obviously a pornographic performance and there is a cameo Ethan Hawke there smiling awkwardly. It would be better for this character to be the king of the red light district, and it would feel better to completely replace the scene of the native kingdom.
I remember that Super Body 2 is also being filmed. I don't know what kind of moths Director Lu Da will come up with. Let's wait and see.
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