Will Smith is nicknamed "Shihuang", because most of the films he starred in have received double word of mouth at the box office.
Not only is Shi Huang's ability to select scripts unmatched in the world, but his acting skills are also among the best among black movie stars.
But in recent years, Shi Huang's films have begun to show signs of misfire (Return to Earth, Men in Black 3).
In addition to the fact that he did not make films for many years and devoted himself to promoting his son's fame, it was also that he did not face the audience for a long time, which caused Shi Huang's status in the mainstream young audience to decline, and the old audience was somewhat obsessed with this handsome black guy. Due to aesthetic fatigue.
The once box office elixir gradually lost its aura, and Shi Huang had to come out again to make a name for himself. Unfortunately, it was this "Focus" that was a bit messy in my opinion.
But what worries Shi Huang most is that the biggest problem in focus is not Shi Huang's acting skills, but the problem of the two duo who are both screenwriters and directors at the same time.
The story of the whole focus can be divided into three stages, and the first two parts and the last part are not coherent in plot, giving the illusion of watching a series.
In addition to the connection problem in the plot, the climax of the focus is precisely the second part of the story that connects the previous and the next in the film.
We all know that in the process of watching a good movie, our emotions should be a sine curve, with continuous peaks and troughs advancing forward, and then all the accumulated emotions will explode in the final climax stage.
No movie can successfully bring out the effect of "climaxing" in more than 2 hours like the Avengers.
And this movie made this fatal mistake. Everyone's emotions were pulled to a climax by the second story, but the emotions were suddenly cut off by the screenwriter and director.
This sense of loss, coupled with the bloody entanglement in the plot setting of the third story, makes it difficult to mobilize the audience's emotions, so that even the most outrageous tricks in the whole film can't make the audience feel any pleasure...
Except for emotions As for the mobilization factor, the plot of the film also changed from amazing at the beginning, to cliché and even chaos.
The name of the film, "Focus", is actually to highlight the stunt that the protagonist in the film, the thief (and also all fraudsters and thieves), is famous for - blindfolding.
In the film, Shi Huang told the heroine that if you want to become a powerful thief, you must use all means to disturb the target's focus, which is the "focus", and then you can easily succeed.
Not only Shi Huang and the heroine used this kind of blindfolding in the film to steal and defraud, but even the screenwriters kept using this kind of blindfolding.
Whenever the audience sees Shi Huang in a desperate situation, he reverses the game at the last moment, and then Shi Huang explains the ins and outs of the whole conspiracy, and the audience suddenly realizes with an "oh".
This old-fashioned scheduling method of "11 Arhats" is done once or twice, but if it is used in the movie, the audience will feel "Director and screenwriter, are you kidding me?!"
In order to reduce spoilers, I just want to Said that the first two stories of the film are not bad, but the third story, the fraud method is illogical, the relationship between the male and female protagonists is inexplicable, and the final ending is far-fetched. Is it really created by the same screenwriter team?
And I think the biggest stalk in the film can only be described as "what the hell"!
It's a pity that Shi Huang tried his best to turn a bad film into a good one...
Fortunately, Margot Robbie (who played The Wolf of Wall Street), a post-90s beauty, is eye-catching enough to support me after watching it. The whole movie...
but it doesn't matter, who hasn't stepped on shit, which actor hasn't played a bad movie? The film's $19 million opening score in North America is enough to prove the audience's perception of the film.
The Hollywood Career Review represents the voice of a part of the audience: "If this film appeared during the rising period of Shi Huang's career, it would be given full marks, but as a successful industry celebrity, we should have expected more."
Next year, Shi Huang There are also the sequels of "I, Robot 2", "I Am Legend 2" and other magical films, let us continue to look forward to Shi Huang's performance.
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