Science fiction works about the undead have been popular for a while, but the works focus on their inner loneliness and sadness. They bear the loss of their love again and again, and see the catastrophes and disasters of mankind again and again, once they live in one place for a long time, There is a risk of being discovered and harmed, and they are destined to wander alone in the history of all parts of the earth. They are witnesses and bystanders of all human suffering.
This film changed the fate of the undead in traditional sci-fi works. This time they became the justice warriors and the Avengers. This idea is really novel. Unfortunately, in the face of the greed and ugliness of human nature, although they have read the ugliness and gloom of human nature, and have accumulated thousands of years of wisdom and martial arts practice, they still can't get rid of the fate of lonely freaks and white rats. They can be called the worst group of superhumans in history.
The film shows the cruelest torture for the undead, sealed in an iron shell and sinking to the bottom of the sea. The cycle of drowning and awakening in the iron shell on the seabed for five hundred years is chilling, and this kind of torture can indeed turn angels into demons. This plot reminds people of the alchemy furnace and the monkey at the foot of the Five Elements Mountain.
Going back to the plot, according to normal logic, these characters are obviously God-like existences. They have enough time to understand and master the most extreme knowledge and skills for learning and training mankind, naturally including the most basic cosmetic surgery and the skills to protect themselves. Even when they face the most powerful and evil bad guys in the world, they don't have to do anything, just simmer, and in just a few decades, they have killed the bad guys. If they want to be a group of melon-eaters, they must be the safest melon-eaters in human history. How can they go to the most risky mercenary temporary workers? Still living so hard? Still sunk into the bottom of the sea? The thousand-year old demon needs to fight a group of ordinary people hard and fast? It's impossible to justify.
When a person feels that he has become a god-like role, his mentality is naturally different. The first is to look down at the world and see that humans are all ants and have compassion for others. After that, the mentality expands, or saves the world, or rules the world. In short, just use your golden fingers to change the world's direction in minutes. No one in the world can stop them, except their companions.
This is the fault of the story, which weakens the overall quality of the film.
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