The luxurious lineup cannot be underestimated.
It is worth mentioning Will Smith.
If you know how he freed up the time for this film, you will be surprised.
He gave up his contract for "The Matrix" and came to make this film.
He later stated that this was the worst decision in his career.
Such subjects are not uncommon.
007? And what detective you watched when you were a kid? cartoon. In short, there are always all kinds of interesting gadgets popping up in this kind of film. The main thing is that untimely heroes encounter various dangers, or heroes encounter untimely dangers. Then they can escape from the dead in an unexpected way.
Speaking of which, this movie is not a Western at all. It's just a movie made with western sceneries as the background.
This is an unsuccessful cop film.
One or two conspiracies are often buried in cop movies. If possible, let the righteous and evil mix together and turn into a lump of hot chocolate with milk that can’t distinguish each other.
In the end, we will find that the hero has finally broken through himself and let justice be heard. The authors' success once again proved that justice always triumphs. And it's not a simple victory. At the same time, they also tell you how difficult it is to win justice. How easy it is for evil to breed. How close justice and evil are...
This is the trend of modern police movies.
If you have watched "Batman: The Dark Knight", you know that people are no longer satisfied with the simple fairy tales of heroes defeating gangsters in the movie. They live in a world where justice and evil are indistinguishable. They need to express the confusing story of the moment. Rather than the sweet fairy tale that a three-year-old child listens to before going to bed. If you unilaterally think that they are still wearing diapers, they will be angry.
The world does not suddenly become like a cup of chocolate milk today.
In 1999, such a reaction began to happen. The simplest proof is this film. He easily proved how such a huge investment can be destroyed by such a story.
At the same time, this is also an unsuccessful Golden Fleece film.
Why?
Because it is nothing at all, it is nothing.
In the story of the golden fleece type. People look for themselves.
We are constantly searching for ourselves through a long life. There are endless stories in it.
At certain moments in this long life, people need breakthroughs. And the character is the guy who is eager to break through.
We see heroes of black and white from the beginning of finding fault with each other to the end of finding fault with each other.
Are the authors saying: Hey, we still have a sequel. They will find fault with each other in the next episode. The black guy will even put a dead mouse in the white guy's boots. Hahaha, isn't it fun?
Well...
I admit that finding the fault can create a lot of interesting scenes. And "finding the difference" can really go from the beginning to the end. However, if the character is kindly finding the difference and joking in the beginning, in the end, it is still kindly finding the difference and joking. What is the difference between finding a dead body at the beginning and not finding the murderer at the end of the film? The only difference is that the audience can't tell what's wrong with the former.
The audience will say: Yeah, this film is about two policemen killing a political prisoner.
Then they would shut their mouths and spread their hands.
You spent a lot of money to create gorgeous special effects, which will turn into this sentence in the audience's mouth: The robot spider inside looks very cool.
On the basis of the development of special effects to this day, it is difficult for you to trick most of the audience into the movie theater with a pile of distorted scrap iron. If you really succeeded in cheating. Don't worry, they will call you a liar.
This can be seen in the return on investment ratio of "Transformers 2". And the countless bad reviews left behind.
We are easily confused by these little tricks.
"This leather shoe looks like a leather shoe, but it's actually a phone."
Xing Ye had already teased such boring gimmicks.
So...
if you only find that you can make a huge steel mechanical spider in the movie, and you are so excited about it, and you are still thinking about making more gadgets to help this damn spider. And keep wondering how amazing the spider is. Then your movie is over.
This is as ridiculous as turning leather shoes into telephones, telephones into hair dryers, and hair dryers into leather shoes.
If you invest enough money to make you regret it, the audience may appreciate your stupidity, and then give you a sentence: "Yeah, that weird thing you made is cool." Then walk out of the movie theater and forget about it.
Because it's just a gimmick, a gimmick, plus a gimmick.
A movie piled up with gimmicks is destined to be impossible to become a classic.
Because you are just thinking more than the audience, not thinking more thoroughly and comprehensively than the audience.
This is not the intention to refute all the criticisms of "Biao".
Instead, I would like to talk about some recent feelings based on the model of "Biao".
Finally, as far as the current production level of our country is concerned, we can't even get "cool".
For this, you can see "Stubborn Carrot".
Only two years later, you might even remember the film’s name as "Angry Carrot" or "Crazy Carrot"...
If it wasn't for the red radish that appeared repeatedly in the promotional film full of cheap special effects, You will even completely forget its name.
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