The style of the film is dark, which is doomed from the tone determined at the beginning of the film. From the very beginning, the director and cameraman have set this style from the clothes to the environment and even the situation. It's like taking us into the Middle Ages in the 18th century and the game of Diablo (I actually like this, the more the Middle Ages, the more I like it), but it lacks the dark skeletons and monsters. Be careful, if the director did this, it might have added a lot of color to the film. hehe.
Today's Hollywood movies, including sci-fi, monsters, etc., are all falling into a pattern that has been portrayed or arranged by predecessors and cannot get out. This is a bit like talking about modernist painting after Picasso, and talking about abstract painting after Kandinsky and Mondrian. This is the greatest pain in life for all modern film directors, or all modern painters, if they are ambitious.
There has always been an argument that Hollywood movies are always dominated by optimism. In contrast, and in the other direction, are the so-called European pessimism-based art films, famous for their mind-boggling interspersed, sometimes unreasonable, interspersed time. The annoying thing is that Van Helsing can't escape the shadow of this argument. Even though Anna sacrificed herself for the left hand of God (little sadness), but overall, justice still defeated evil (positive), including Frankenstein's last crossing the sea, symbolizing the tenacity of life, even if it is technology Produced out of monster life. Alas, unavoidable Hollywood! Just a little more thought, maybe going to sea for a sequel?
Another feature of the movie is that in order to reflect the boredom of the male and female protagonists, all ordinary characters are feather-level abilities. When they lived under the castle of Count Dracula, the vampire who was shocked for 400 years, and he was sucked blood by one or two people every day, if those villagers faced Dracula's three If a wife is justifiable to be panicking, panicking in the face of those little vampires is shocking. As if the ability to resist was completely lost as soon as he was caught, only a few protagonists fought hard there. Director, aren't you mocking the audience's IQ?
In fact, there are still many places to complain, but many of the above critics have already written a lot, so I won't say more. But there's still one thing I don't like. It's the ovaries of those little vampires. As soon as I saw them, I thought of the "Alien" series, and I immediately got distracted. Please, can the director come up with something unique and original?
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