Does Lien Nixon want to transform again? Want to rest out of the pain of bereavement? Still too old to move? After watching "Taken 3", all of these reasons seem to make sense. Because even Ennison was really ugly and embarrassed in this film.
First, the glory
of the first episode so far Lian Ennison is 62 years old this year. As an actor, he has long been unable to move. But it doesn't matter. When he performed "Immediate Rescue 1" at the age of 56 years old, we could see that this uncle actor was not very skilled. But we still like Lien Nixon, because he played the hero in addition to the ability, that is, capable temperament.
In 2008, "Rescue Now 1" was released. Lien Nixon played a retired CIA agent. Because his daughter was kidnapped, he resolutely confronted the human-snake group alone. After 30 years of fighting, his every move is experience. He can hear the country where the enemy is on the earth by the noise of his mobile phone; he can also rely on his understanding of the underground society, adding a phone book to him, and uncovering all the criminal groups in Paris. Uncle Lien is not Stephen Seag. The gangsters can beat the middle-aged man in front of him to the point where he surrounds them with eight or nine people. But when he has the means to allow the gangsters to call and brand people, he realizes that the brothers are not yesterday "unfortunately." When drugs were searched into the prison, they "coincidentally" were admitted to the hospital in a car accident the day before yesterday; so the lone gangster can only be slaughtered by this middle-aged man, and he can be beaten as hell. The hero Lien Nixon plays is never a fighter who punches hard, but a teacher who can practice punching to the extreme. At the same time, he is also a father. He has the weakness of his father's generation and will be troubled by his daughter not being close to him. He is an uncle, an extraordinary and ordinary uncle, who has accumulated experience and became powerful, and has become sophisticated after repeated experience. It belongs to the lifestyle of an uncle.
"Instant Rescue 1" for the next six years, even Ennison's series of action movie roles, without exception, are variants of this uncle. Everyone understands that he can play this kind of middle-aged man who does not rely on strength but on intelligence and perseverance. This is how he even Ennison can rely on "Immediate Rescue 1" to successfully switch to action at the age of middle age. The main reason for the success of the film. Here is a simple example: In the
"Star Wars: Episode I" series, Uncle Lian is a man of Zhuge. As a Jedi master, Uncle Lian recognized the Skywalker buried in the planet in the countryside and affected the entire galaxy.
In the "Batman Begins" series, Uncle Lian is an evil cadre. He took a group of Uncle Shadow Warriors who depended on his judgment and chose to attack New York.
In the "Clash of the Titans" series, Uncle Lian is the best of the gods, and he played the most flawless emperor Zeus in history.
"The A-Team" is more realistic, but equally powerful, because only heirs can defeat Uncle Lian, no enemies, and his mercenary experience is so much that he knows everything.
"Battleship" (Battleship) is more exaggerated. Uncle Lian doesn't need the deity to play punches this time, but all the earth's fleets have become his arms, and he will fight the alien invaders to determine the ownership of the earth.
"A Million Ways to Die in the West" (A Million Ways to Die in the West) is a comedy, and Lian Shulu is very happy. But thinking about his role as a gangster in the film symbolizes the strong violence in the western society, it is inevitable that this is actually a disguised leader role.
"A Walk Among the Tombstones" (A Walk Among the Tombstones) takes Uncle Lian's image as an expert to the extreme. After all, he can act as a spy and act vividly. What is the difficulty of acting as a policeman again?
In this series of films, there are two films that are similar to the immediate rescue series. They are "Unknown" and "Non Stop". Both the film and even tertiary, roles are not spies came to say, from the dress to the conversation, both as immediate family, he beat the gun by opening bars of practice, it is exactly the same ... ..
just think, can It has been determined that even Ennison’s action roles over the past seven or eight years are a mixture of veteran and teacher. How similar and rigid is this. Presumably Hollywood has a lot of eyes, and he won't miss his self-replication and can replicate the box office, so the films that are ranked for him will not fall out of this level.
Second, the martial arts show was finally exhausted,
but the director of "Immediate Rescue 3" did not seem to figure this out.
In the sequel "Immediate Rescue 3" this time, the spy played by Ennison was accused of killing his wife because the police found his wife's body in the room where he lived alone, and he couldn't argue. In order to avenge his wife, he decisively gave up on the desk and chose to pursue the truth alone, even if the police saw him as the main suspect behind him. Lien Ennison doesn't need to save people like episodes 1 and 2 this time, just save himself. And the only way to save yourself is to fight. The fight scene prevailed, and he was fighting endlessly with the police who were chasing him and the criminals who were chasing him.
The direction of martial arts guidance in this film is CQC. CQC is a terrible martial art developed by soldiers who pay attention to death during handovers, poking the throat, kicking the knee and bayonet; because it is too fierce, the CQC coach will even be restricted from being in the military. In other places, people are taught to fight at will, so the channels for ordinary civilians to know CQC can only be seen from video games or movies. In "The Bourne Identity" (The Bourne Identity), Matt Damon used the hand-bound book to break the enemy's arms, which is a well-known CQC performance.
However, Lien Nixon is not an actor born in martial arts. He has no skill and speed. Naturally, he should not be forced to imitate Matt Damon's performance, shouldn't he? CQC can be said to be synonymous with fast and accurate. Even the uncle is too old to touch this kind of young people's stuff. What should I do? By editing.
The frequency of editing in "Rescue 3" is the highest among three episodes. Uncle Lian was rushing around and fighting. When he tried to catch, there would be more than five cuts and cuts per second in the screen, which made people unable to see the action. Then he arranged a good stand-in to wear Lien's clothes to catch the wind and catch the shadow. The director behind the scenes seems to think that this can make up for the problem that even Ennison’s posture is neither good-looking nor powerful.
But the audience is not stupid. Action movies all rely on editing, but in fact they fail half. Too many edits make the appearance rate of the avatar more likely to be seen through. This method can be used occasionally, when the whole film is like this in dozens of places, it is tiresome to watch.
The editing is fast and accurate, after all, it just makes people appreciate that the editor is very good. What's more, although there are many editing in this film, they are not clever. I want to make it look like a melee, but the editing looks like chaos, which is difficult to understand. This film inserts some action tricks other than fighting, such as the thrill of racing on an elevated rack to avoid the collapse of the truck cabinet (Mike Bay arranged flowers?), and the end of the film is a collision with a small passenger car and a large passenger plane (Lin Yibin arranged flowers) ?), but the stage is too perfunctory, even to cover up the protagonist's overpowering balance, and I can't get nervous even if I want to be nervous. In addition, the confusion and shortcomings caused by splicing still appear repeatedly in car and aircraft warfare, and will not be improved by this.
Since the battle against Albanians in "Rescue 2", the editing problem has existed, because the director of the second and third episodes is the same group of people behind the scenes. It's only the second episode, at least a little bit of concealment. By this episode, the more frequent the botched switching, the more we can find out how many times even Ennison played badly.
Ever since, we have to be reminded again and again by "Rescue Now 3", what a terrible actor Lien Nixon is today. However, this kind of movie viewing experience is so discouraging and disappointing. He is slow, he is tired, he is old, he is fat... In the secret agent's play skin, it is the figure of Lien Ennison who is repeatedly embarrassed. The movie is ugly, I can swallow it, because it is the responsibility of the entire crew. The actor is embarrassed, but it is difficult to let go of it for a long time.
When people are old, they may not lose to the young, but they must not lose to the young self. Is his current ugliness what our audience wants to see? Absolutely not. For even Ennison, I am afraid not.
Three, a tribute to the plot
As far as the movie itself is concerned, the plot of "Immediate Rescue 3" is much smoother than that of 2. 2 pay tribute to the trajectory of 1 everywhere, 1 went to Paris to save my daughter, 2 went to Turkey to save his wife. The whole film is like Rocky's third and fourth episodes. The copy of his previous work was too much, and the audience guessed that it developed and became unattractive (the improper editing mentioned earlier also affected the evaluation). His daughter was also kidnapped twice! Their family is really troubled, isn't it? Fox has made this joke itself, and made a funny short film, played by Ennison, teasing his role even if someone kidnapped (Take) a toothpaste, it can kill the whole family: https://www.
The third episode of youtube.com/watch?v=VRwl4nYBnNU resolutely gave up the purpose of kidnapping and changed it to a villain to frame the protagonist. The protagonist rebels and acts as an offensive. With the oriole of the police behind, it has become a big wrestling of three forces. The rhythm has become more ups and downs, and the plot is advancing quickly. Although there is no exciting and resourceful first episode, it is already more exciting than the second episode, which is empty.
But there is nothing new about this change, because the whole set is moved! In 1993, even when Ennison was still a drama actor and nominated an Oscar actor on "Schindler's list" (Schindler's list), Harrison Ford starred in a cop movie His super masterpiece is called "The Fugitive" (The Fugitive). In the movie, Harrison Ford was prosecuted because his wife was in the house of a corpse, but he became a fugitive because of an accident. He had to find the real culprit while under the pressure of the police to hunt down. Sounds alike, right? In my opinion, "Rescue 3" simply copied the backbone of Harrison Ford's film back then. (Incidentally, this year's Tommy Lee Jones (Tommy Lee Jones) finally got the Oscar affirmation 26 years after his debut, relying on the piece of "Absolute". Uncle Lian returned instead forging feathers and has not been nominated)
Moreover, "Instant Rescue 3" is clearly a late-coming work, but the plot loopholes are a lot of problems. When Lien Nixon saw his wife being killed, he was determined to find the murderer by himself instead of relying on the police. Was it because he did not trust the police's ability to do things? The reason is unknown. But he is not to blame, the police for this film are really blind. As early as when the police discovered from the monitors of the restaurant that Uncle Lian’s wife was kidnapped and boarded by an unknown person, they should have discovered that this case was definitely not under Uncle Lian’s hands. Why the police would never mention this evidence? Hardly locked in Uncle Lian's family, don't you go to find another clue? The police chief played by Forest Whitaker also arrogantly said that the moment he saw the corpse, he knew that Uncle Lian was not the real murderer, because Uncle Lian left a few hot bagels at the scene. It can be seen that the time point is wrong. Since you have known it for a long time, what is the meaning of the series of police pursuits, do you want to observe the CIA's skills in idle time?
The reversal of the gangster group is also far-fetched. This time I will no longer let Albanians kill the French (My God, is this too sensitive now?), and let the Slavic arms dealers fight the Yankees, the favorite mode of American movies, just like the old stalks of this movie. . But the Slavic group was actually used by others. The real murderer was another stranger, the second husband of Lian's uncle's wife. The purpose of this guy is to kill the Slavic groups with the help of Uncle Lian, because he owes these groups a large sum of money. But after all the people were killed, he tried to kidnap Uncle Lian's daughter and escaped abroad, so he didn't know what to say. For a person in the know who heard that Uncle Lian had saved his daughter twice, it was amazingly stupid to dare to break the ground three times on the head of Tai Sui. When he was arrested, Uncle Lian did not kill him, so he just told him to go to prison, yes. For an insider whose daughter has been kidnapped twice, he is not afraid of the possibility of an idiot breaking the ground on his head four times, which is silly and funny. No wonder the dead wife fell in love with these two men at the same time, one stupid and the other stupid, both stupid!
Fourth, summary
"Rescue Now 3" is such a film. It is better than the second episode and worse than the first episode; after watching it, what I most want to do is to invite Ennison to retire early.
After shooting for three consecutive episodes, the accumulated lesions were finally revealed in this film. Watching him fight desperately with a middle-aged man wearing grandma's pants, and then find another middle-aged man who is capable of domestic violence to choke, all like a rebellious kid, and he doesn't compromise with the world in the slightest. What can be more irritating than watching a middle-aged man pretend to be a young man? Coupled with the embarrassment of martial arts, even Ennison copied himself for eight years, and finally came to the end of the fire.
I still enjoy watching Lien Nixon's performance. In the field of action movies, the audience going to the theater is like going to a restaurant. We like to order exactly the same dishes because they are the chef's expertise. We don’t get tired of it, and don’t care about the repetition of the taste. What we eat is actually the same, just because that’s what we want. Isn't Harrison Ford like that? As long as the frame of the screen is still there, he will always be a hero. However, even Harrison Ford has a tired day. He gave up playing Han Solo, who was the Millennium Eagle in 2015, because he felt that as an actor, returning to the soul of Han Solo would only make him not break through. Of course, he is not short of fame and money now.
Harrison Ford was 51 years old when he performed "Desperate Pursuit". After that, he slowly transformed into a role that has not been played in the past, such as a news anchor. Lien Nixon imitated him to perform "Immediate Rescue 3" and is now 62 years old. Uncle Lian announced that he would withdraw from the action movie stage two years later, when he was 64 years old. Lien Ennison will pass by for the remaining two years and continue to perform as we love, but it is likely to be as exhausted as "Rescue Now 3"? Or is Lien Nixon, as an actor who started the plot, is uneasy about the status quo, and will make bold decisions and breakthroughs in filming? These are all unsolved mysteries.
But I am pretty sure that the worst decision is to perform "Rescue Now 4" again.
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