First of all, the whole scene scheduling is full of cheap feeling of insufficient funds. Find a bar, and the middle arena is polished to be a fighting place. This is not the point, the point is the cheap extras, there is not even a flashlight, there is no media, the audience at most use their mobile phones to take pictures of the winner, and then the group of brainless fans shouts the name of the protagonist to a collective climax. And the protagonist roared as if he had won some world war, and roared like a beast like all the supporting characters who were beaten down.
Excellent protagonists need excellent supporting roles, amateurs are not as good as professionals, and unprofessionalism is like the various cheap cheating feelings mentioned above. In the three fights in the cheap bar in Kiev, the referee and the host were the same person, and the referee only appeared at the beginning of the call, let alone the scoring rules, and even the most basic bell in a boxing fighting match. All the advantages are that it is full of mixed martial arts action from beginning to end, however, the fighting style is unified from beginning to end, whether it is the protagonist or the supporting role, the director and the photographer are keen to shoot dazzling whirlwind legs and slow-motion close-ups, and even supporting role fighters They also have whirlwind legs, which is actually the same as the protagonist's action style.
Whenever the protagonist is injured and can't fight, just one look at the heroine will turn on the invincible mode, and this mode appears at least twice (a total of three fights). As for the auxiliary line, the agent of the male protagonist keeps arranging for him to leave Kiev to catch more important games. The so-called dream of being a global champion, the protagonist is busy dealing with urgent matters at hand and returning the female protagonist to freedom, but he is still very arrogant. The agent would catch the bus at the original time, and then said that he would catch the last bus. In general movies, in order to shape the protagonist and keep his promise, the protagonist will not only save the beauty but also catch up with the last train to return to China. But our director, after making a series of promises to the agent and the audience, actually threw this auxiliary line aside, and then let the protagonist continue to return to the prison to be a beast who can only fight. The last shot is the protagonist looking like a beast. Yelling at the camera the same way, and the movie ends.
PS Another point that can still explain the lack of sincerity in this film is that whenever the protagonist is training and preparing for battle, it is just a symbolic run of a few steps, two punches and three kicks. It's so different from Tom Hardy's "Warrior".
As for the whole, the difference between this film and "Gladiator" is 10 "Warrior".
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