One star for the title Steelmaking, one star for Hughes, no more. I seldom write movie reviews, and today I was so angry that I couldn't help it.
All the elements that attract me to steelmaking: rigorous settings, compact and smooth plot, character modeling with great care regardless of the protagonist and supporting roles, even no-ones play a pivotal role, sparks and details created by all the IQs of the pros and cons online The attention, music and sound effects I have not seen. And everything I want to see in a live-action movie: special effects, action scenes, acting, and graphics are all too hard to describe. The whole process was embarrassing, and I couldn't feel the slightest feeling of shock.
When trying to forcibly compress such a story that would have taken 1500+ minutes to tell to 130 minutes, the result is that the plot connection is illogical, the IQ of the characters is offline, and the OOC doesn't know at home. Will Dou Ding leave his brother to Tucker to "check" so easily? Marco sees two children also holding guns? Wen Li watched the doctor get killed by lust in front of her and Douding with her own eyes and reacted so calmly? One second, he said that the research on the Sage's Stone is very dangerous. Even Al doesn't want to involve Douding. The next second, he takes his younger brother and Wen Li to the Fifth Research Institute to wander around? Hughes, who is in charge of IQ, believes in Harklow unconditionally? Jealousy has transformed in front of you, and there are witnesses who clearly said that they saw "Secretary" kill Hughes. Chief, you still ask Lust if you know Hughes? Lieutenant, are you Hawkeye or Colonel Hawkeye? In the end, the sage's stone of lust was given to Douding, sir, have you forgotten how your original work was stabbed? Kui people also specially explained that the stone of the sage is the core. I can really talk about such a plot hole all night.
The original feels like everyone is doing something that is within their power but equally important. This whole "emmmm what did they do?". After deleting the characters such as President Scar, the remaining ones are not all well developed, and Hughes and Tucker are slightly better. I'm really worried that the writers will get Kimberly alive by writing the brothers like that (oh did I forget that Kimberly isn't in this one yet). The look and feel of the climax at the end is not even good enough for the bishop at the beginning (the flamethrower chief can't really accept it). And I don't know if it's the lack of bgm, editing or the performance itself (or I'm not used to Japanese movies?), I feel that the rhythm of the film is very strange, and it's uncomfortable to watch.
All in all, I can't believe I've spent two hours looking at something like this, and I can't believe this thing has a steel pedigree. So in the end, I decided to deduct the stars I gave for the sake of steelmaking.
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