"Old Friend of the Chinese People" Guo Da Statham ("Guo Da Sen" for short) is here again. In this summer archive of blockbuster films, he brought a masterpiece of heat dissipation-"Megatooth".
This muscular British tough guy, in his past works, has been a gangster, a mercenary, a car family...
He flew in the sky and ran on the ground, and he was stunned by him. This time he was finally swimming in the water. No way. Who said he used to be a professional diver?
Acting with Guo Dasen is the Chinese actress Li Bingbing, who has been struggling in Hollywood in recent years. Although the works of Chinese actors in Hollywood have been mixed, the quality of "Megadon" this time is definitely worth the price.
As a popcorn movie with a very common theme, the film’s refreshing points are very dense. Whether it is the shock of those giants or the oppressive feeling of awakening deep-sea phobia, it can make you feel cool in the hot summer.
The setting of this film stems from a scientific hypothesis: the bottom of the Mariana Trench is not the real "sea bottom", but a layer of clouds, through which there is another world.
Scientists played by Li Bingbing, Zhao Wenxuan, Ruby Rose and others use submarines to dive into the deep sea below 10,000 meters and step into this unknown territory. In this dark sea, not only squids with huge sucker tentacles live, but also megalodons that were supposed to be extinct two million years ago.
The light of the submarine attracted the attention of the megalodon, and was attacked immediately, causing three members of the scientific expedition team to be trapped on the bottom of the sea. In order to rescue the trapped team members, scientific researchers played by Li Bingbing and Guo Dasen dived into the deep sea successively to launch an exciting rescue.
What impressed the most was Guo Dasen sitting in a submarine, looking at the dark sea below his feet, hesitating, making the audience feel the sense of falling without support.
And when Li Bingbing was hunting the megalodon, he stayed alone in the shark guard, watching the megalodon swimming slowly not far away, as if he was in a transparent coffin.
Generally speaking, a dark, depressing deep-sea rescue can completely support a small-cost thriller, but in the US$150 million "Megadon", these are just the beginning.
The rescue operation broke the original ecological balance of the underwater world. The megalodon tail followed the trajectory of the submarine and came to the upper waters to attack the ship, so the scientific expedition team faced the task of eliminating megalodon.
And when we thought that the megalodon was finally wiped out, a bigger megalodon suddenly appeared. It was as big as a ship, and when it stirred in the sea, it could form a whirlpool.
Compared with such a huge object, human beings are very small, and any attack method is not effective.
As a disaster film, in addition to the thrilling scenes of Megalodon, the more rare thing is that the protagonist's IQ is not dropped during the whole process.
Facing the chase of megalodon, the protagonists were well prepared and reacted quickly. They quickly realized that the lights and sounds could attract the sharks, so they deliberately turned off the lights when escaping and slowed down the swimming speed. When preparing to fight back, he wisely chose the largest dose of anesthetic, without the mentally retarded plot that would eagerly anger the audience.
Even the villain in the film wisely kept his distance while poaching megalodons and had to bomb them twice with depth charges.
It's a pity that the megalodon doesn't play cards according to the routine, and the villain will eventually die.
As for the climax of the film, it will definitely give domestic audiences a sense of intimacy, because the megalodon actually went to Sanya, Hainan !
Imagine a big shark popping up in the scenic sea area where dumplings are cooked in Sanya Bay...
The tourists who were still laughing and playing the other day were suddenly scared and screamed by the megalodon shark, and they fled in panic. There was even a bouncing ball, bitten by the megalodon, and the fragments flew towards the audience towards the screen.
I have to say that this scene is really grounded! (By the way, ask for the psychological shadow area of the people in Sanya)
When Steven Spielberg's "Jaws" was released in 1975, it not only created a precedent for the North American summer archive, it also brought the director a double harvest of box office and word of mouth, but also caused a sharp decline in the number of tourists in the coastal areas of the United States at that time. .
I hope that the release of "Megatooth" will not have a negative impact on Sanya tourism 233333...
In addition to the thrilling scenes, Megalodon also has a lot of dark humor.
The most typical is the black character DJ in the film, who was obviously afraid to die, but unconsciously showed his racial talent when he complained, and came to an impromptu rap.
There are also helicopters that have appeared many times in the film. According to the conventional routines of disaster action films, the meaning of the appearance of helicopters is to meet the audience's needs for explosion scenes.
When I was watching the movie, I imagined countless ways of crashing, such as a megalodon suddenly jumping out of the sea and biting the helicopter, or a big wave on the sea knocking the helicopter down, but what I didn’t expect was that the director actually chose The most stupid way to crash...
As for the specific method, I will not spoil it here.
Of course, there is also the puppy "Pippi" that escaped from the mouth of the shark. It is so cute that it flutters in the sea with its short legs.
In fact, whether it is Megalodon, or Jaws, Shark Beach, Shark Tornado, and even monster movies such as Godzilla and King Kong, the themes are all about man and nature. Relationship.
The villain boss covered in copper and the shark whose fins (that is, shark fins) were cut off on the poaching ship in the film are reminding us that humans should not disrupt the ecological balance, whether for scientific research or commercial purposes.
Of course, this film also has an obvious slot, that is, all Chinese characters speak English without any sense of violation. It is very embarrassing to say Chinese lines, and even makes me suspect that these lines are written by machine translation software.
I checked after watching the movie, and it turned out that the screenwriters are all foreigners.
In general, Megalodon is still worth watching. Especially in this summer file, there was "Sky Rescue" starring Dashi Johnson and Kun Ling before, and "Megadon" starring Guo Dasen and Li Bingbing later. I couldn't help feeling that the co-production film finally gradually gone after a period of trial and error. On track.
I hope that Hollywood films and Chinese films that represent two different cultures can learn from each other and create more works that fans will love.
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