Honestly, if I were to rate it from an Apocalypse fan's point of view, I would obviously not give this movie a pass, but as an "amateur" viewer, I could give him 3.5 stars, with a balanced hatchback , and finally to Samsung.
But when I found out that a bunch of people gave it five stars, I wondered if it was my aesthetic that deviates too much from the public. After careful consideration, it was decided not to change the rating and to give some explanation. This is a highly completed commercial film, a genre film. The plot is complete, the character biography is perfect, the foreshadowing is reasonable, the fighting is smooth, and the special effects are outstanding. These should be the basic lines of a movie, but in fact, most domestic movies have not reached this passing line. Against the background of its peers, "Animal World" is indeed worthy of praise. However, we can't be complacent just because we are good in the same category. When the director adapts a full-point script to 70 points, but because it is better than the peers with 50 points, he will get bursts of praise, then the applause at this time, and playing in domestic movies The slap on the face was equally loud. The strict criticism of him is to hope that it is "out of its class and outstanding", and expect it to "beyond its appearance and be in its circle", so the following are some criticisms. What needs to be criticized most is the "abuse" of special effects in this film. I'm sure the special effects are well done, but I'm skeptical about the legitimacy of these effects. The typical performance is that when the male protagonist is emotionally fluctuating, he will visualize himself as a "clown" and see other people as "monsters", and this is the most important aspect of special effects production in the film. Indeed, due to the psychological shadow of childhood, this possibility exists. However, in this film, the scenes of self-imagination of fighting monsters for the clown are likely to add up to more than 15 minutes. It was enough to show these shots for the first time, and the subsequent shots did not continue to provide new effective information, and they were not visually pleasing, but only made people feel very boring. If it was expressed like this in the song of Saya, it could also be used as a novel way, but unfortunately it is not. This should be the biggest problem of this work. If these useless scenes can be deleted, the plot will undoubtedly be more compact and the fluency will be greatly improved. This is also, in my opinion, the biggest drop in points for the adaptation of the original. Why highlight criticism on this issue, because in the cinema, time is a more precious life. Every ineffective shot, a dazzling shot, is a murder for both the practitioner and the audience, and it is a double waste. Many movies are now reduced to special effects expression tools, such as the widely criticized "Transformers" series in recent years, a large number of explosion special effects will make people drowsy in the theater. Domestic films are the hardest hit areas for special effects. Several Journey to the West series and Fengshen series are the audiences spending money to accept the visual slaughter from the film. A few years ago, I went to see "Big Fish and Begonia". There was a ten-second shot. The heroine held a small walnut in her hand and turned for ten seconds. The ten seconds fully expressed the fineness of this walnut. Just know: the hope of this domestic animation is mostly over. Because such a lens is beautiful, but it is ineffective, it is beautiful but it does not provide aesthetics, and it can only be reduced to a fuss-free performance in the end. Of course, the director can't be blamed entirely. After all, in this 3D film, only these shots are 3D. If they are removed, they can only be sold as 2D. Therefore, this may be a requirement of the management, so we can only give the middle finger. The second thing to criticize is the rhythm issue. In fact, the pace of this work is very good, there are basically no particularly boring moments, and there are only a few places that make people sad. The first is the above-mentioned, those ineffective comic-style monster-killing scenes can be completely cut out. The second is a daydream of the hero before getting on the boat, which made me laugh at that time. There are a lot of psychological dramas for the young man. The daydream introduced in this place, referred to as yy, is about 5 minutes. In yy, there are thrilling car chase scenes, serial explosion scenes, wonderful action scenes, various special effects Duang Duang, and then the camera changes, and it is found that it is the protagonist yy, It feels like the director is leaning on your ear and saying, "Just kidding." It is simply a direct disciple of Ma Sanli! A big failure here. The third is that at the moment of the highest light, that is, the moment of gambling, it is still too fast, and those meticulous and detailed inferences are not clear enough. If the above cut time is added here, this work will be very good. The rules of the game can actually be regarded as a game of incomplete information. If the viewer is not very sensitive to numbers, the feeling here can only be "it seems to be hanging but I don't know what he is talking about, shit". If the rhythm can be adjusted, it may be able to impact the best genre film of the year. The third thing to criticize is the acting. First of all, I have to say that Li Yifeng's performance is actually much better than before. Li Yifeng is a very smart person, he is good at grasping the timing. After a period of silence after his debut, after the fire of "Gu Jian Qi Tan", he took advantage of the situation to popularize Duan Zishou and veteran cadres. By the way, he should be the earliest and most successful so-called "selling character" artist. originator. In the next two years, the announcements continued, and the TV series continued. But in the past year or two, he suddenly disappeared, and after I heard that he went to pick up a movie, I said with emotion, "It's so wise." Yes, Li Yifeng is no longer young and can't compare with the top traffic fresh meat. It is a good decision to transform into a movie. And this movie does see that he has worked hard, much better than a bunch of stars with concave shapes. But against the excellent background of the surrounding people, it is still a little weak, and the rivalry with Zhou Dongyu is obviously suppressed (and the sense of CP is insufficient). The main reason is that there is still no complete "liberation of nature", the explosive power is a little bit worse, and the level is less. In addition, Li Yifeng's eyes are very good-looking, but there are too many whites in his eyes, so he can't show many subtle expressions of eyes well. The revolution has not yet succeeded, and comrades still need to work hard. It has to be said that an actor is a profession that requires too much talent, even as much as a mathematician's requirement for mathematical talent. Some ceilings may not be touched by him in this life. Actors and characters sometimes have to use their bodies to break in. Li Yifeng has just made up his mind, and he probably can't bear to give up that shell completely. But I am still optimistic about him, and hope that he can have three ups and downs and create a miracle "even if the sun sets three times". Fourth, I still want to praise some localized adaptations of this work. Mortgage, marriage pressure, company team building, Macau gambling, these localized settings perfectly make the movie have Chinese flesh and blood, and the motives of the characters are reasonable.
It is still a pity that the most exciting part of gambling is basically imported rather than original, and the failure is added during the creation process, which is a bit embarrassing. I still believe that it is only a matter of time before China can create an equally good script. But for those of you who have given five stars, your praise is likely to quickly blow up a bubble called "Animal World 2" full of special effects. When the bubble bursts, there is nothing left. The Macau Fengyun series is probably an example. "Animal World" is worthy of praise, because it can and has the ability to be a passing line for domestic genre films, but if you want to be an excellent line, sorry, it is far from being good enough.
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