Action movies for middle-aged and elderly people happened to be very popular last year. Hollywood filmed "The Expendables" and Hong Kong filmed "The Ring." Stallone convened a group of hardcore action actors: Jason Statham, Jet Li, Bruce Willis, etc., plus himself, had an addiction to kill until dawn. "Fighting the Ring" is a young film-obsessed director who brought together several respected actors and sang an old-fashioned new play. They are all playing cards of nostalgia, with filmmakers and audiences targeting old-fashioned action movies and bygone times, nostalgic for each other. The audience consumes past memories, and the filmmakers earn memory deposits.
"Red Fire" isn't nostalgia, and of the cast, only Bruce Willis is an authentic action star. John Malkovich has taken the line of character connotation for many years. Morgan Freeman has been nourishing various Hollywood films with his skin color and acting skills. Helen Mirren's intellectual and elegant queen style does not match action movies. tune. The stage they built together was not a nostalgic drama at all. The directors have to come up with new ideas, and the film is adapted from a comic with some new things. All middle-aged and elderly people play gunfights and action. The protagonists of the action comics are a group of retired agents, and the producer's scheming is innovation.
Such a group of actors making action movies, even if they are not in tune, is attractive enough to see what kind of hot pot they can cook. From the very beginning, "The Expendables" and "In the Ring" were pre-sold to the audience on the nostalgic and action channels, and the best moments of the actors in the films were dedicated to the field of action films. The trick of "Red Flame Battlefield" is to let a lawyer who is very good at cooking be the driver, playing the unexpected card. The old man is also crazy. The queen takes a machine gun, unlike Stallone and Teddy Robin, who lifts her aged legs again and uses the past moves to defeat the enemy and capture the audience. Monotonous repetition is the most deadly. In the same way, Stallone shot a boxing inspirational film 6 times. The audience likes myths, and they like myths that are more reliable. Rocky can't stand on the stage all the time, and he will always be the winner. By the sixth part, he is already approaching the limit. Therefore, even if "The Expendables" mainly plays the nostalgic card, Stallone is no longer as serious as Rocky and Rambo, and leads a few fierce men to go the way of Schwarzenegger's films.
Compared to the relatively fresh ideas, the execution of "Red Flame Battlefield" seems too mediocre. Yes, there's plenty of action and gunfights, Markovich is crazy, and the Queen is shooting at guns, and if you don't ask for that much, you can almost keep watching a movie without falling asleep. The setting of the film starts with a routine, and the peaceful and boring life is broken and involved in a conspiracy. From one action scene to the next, the interesting points that attract the audience are filled by the cold jokes and subversive shapes of several actors. The old people obviously can't give hormones any more, and attack with humor.
Too much pursuit of creating a solid action film has caused the various parts to get stuck in the old-fashioned whirlpool. The story is nothing new, the plot is blunt, and there are no surprises. The film was nominated for the Golden Globe Comedy category. Comedy must be funny, and it must be interesting. There are no surprises in "Red Flame Battlefield". The dialogue seems to have a British accent, with a cold humor. The plot retreated to the aura of the actors, and the action eventually became a foil, which was eventually discounted. "Red Flames" was released in North America on October 15 last year, and "Secretariat", which was released on October 8, also featured Markovic. In Disney's standard inspirational package, Markovic has already sold a cute one, and the look in "Red Flame Battlefield" is just an outdated appearance repeated again.
To witness Bruce Willis' reverence, Helen Mirren's subversion, Malkovich's hippie, Morgan Freeman's frozen smile in "The Shawshank Redemption", the biggest cost of the film is that each of them Individuals have their glory days. If you let the film improve itself and take the humorous route, it should not stop at old-age action films, not just traditional conservative humor, but go a little further, like "Kick-Ass", absorb some "American Pieces" "The three vulgar nutrients and Hong Kong films are all crazy, this is the real meaning of doing new things. Or, to change the tone, like last year's Korean film "Grandma Bandits", the sensationalism of the aunts turning into melodramas after going crazy is also the best policy. In this case, "Red Flame Battlefield" leaves people not only the sunset demeanor of several actors, but also the film itself - an overdone story or a few tear gas canisters. 【Sohu Entertainment】
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