Maybe everyone knows Marvel and DC, but "Blood Warrior" is from Warrior Comics. This so-called third largest comic universe has faded out of the public eye for decades.
The Bloody Warrior is the backbone of Warriors comics, so it is not surprising that it was adapted into a movie. Yes, Warriors Comics also wants to open up its own Warriors movie universe in the film industry.
But in the current market where superhero movies are so popular, if other new superhero works want to squeeze out a little space, then it really depends on hard power.
At present, "Blood Warrior" has formed an aesthetic isolation on Rotten Tomatoes. The professional Rotten Tomatoes index is only a poor 31%, but the popular popcorn has reached 78%.
On the strict metascore, the professional and user scores are not high, one is only 44 points (out of 100), and the other is only 5.3 points (out of 10). The most common IMDB is only 5.7.
What's more unfortunate is that under the influence of the epidemic, the global film market has been hit hard. At present, almost all blockbusters have been withdrawn and postponed. As a result, the North American box office in the first week was only a pitiful $3.775 million, ranking second in the box office of the new film.
And at number one was a small-budget film called "I Still Believe," which grossed $4 million.
Although the cost of "Blood Warrior" is only 50 million, which is not high for a superhero blockbuster, but at the current box office, it should be very difficult for "Blood Warrior" to successfully open the Warriors universe, unless later, For example, a release in China can set off a big movie-watching boom, and then drive overseas box office revenue.
First of all, let’s talk about the look and feel. Vin Diesel, who has been saying “I AM GROOT” in the Chaoying movie, finally became the protagonist of the Chaoying movie.
Every superhero has a story behind it, and Bloodshot is no exception. He rose from the dead, he rose for revenge, and he chose not to be manipulated to free himself.
This seems to be the same as that of many superheroes. If this is the DNA of every comic superhero that cannot be changed, then how to refresh people in the movie plot has become the key to "Bloodblood" standing out.
Alas... It's a pity, Marvel and DC have made so many movies in the past ten years, which is enough to hand over a superhero type of experience test paper, but "Blood Warrior" uses one that even the current Marvel DC All abandoned 1.0 routine templates.
The story of "Blood Warrior" is probably like this. The soldier Ray, played by Vin Diesel, was killed in battle and was transformed into a Bloodshot Warrior. After that, it was used by the RST organization, and a revenge plan was implanted in Ray's brain again and again. The confused Lei launched his revenge in the trap of the organization, until after all the truth came out, Lei wanted to be himself again.
Don't worry, what we are talking about here is the content given in the trailer, and there are no thunderstorm spoilers.
But what I want to say is that the content of this trailer is basically most of the plot of the movie. Yes, the more driving force of this movie is how Lei shows his high-tech muscles in revenge time and time again. The body, as well as the high grid action play.
In addition to these, the rest of the literary drama is lackluster. Take the first third of the movie as an example. This is the first half hour of the movie that was ruined by the trailer, just like the experience of "The Invisible Man".
If you have watched the trailer, you will definitely know that Lei was used by a routine, waiting for Lei's fate, how to break the mystery and regain his freedom.
After Lei wakes up at the beginning, the film is very long, let us follow the perspective of the boss of the RST organization, and listen to him excitedly introduce the high-tech implanted in Lei to bring him back to life.
This kind of explanatory dialogue and scenes were not used in science fiction films decades ago, and the audience has not seen any high-tech until now. In fact, if you want to introduce the technical content of Lei, you can break other key points in the film scene to enhance the rhythm of the film.
For example, in the action scenes, the film has already demonstrated Lei's recovery technology very well, so why bother to swipe Lei's hand with a knife in the front to explain, and then weaken the dramatic tension of Lei's recovery in the subsequent action scenes.
There is also a foreshadowing in front of the film, which spends too much time showing the audience the interaction between Lei and the organizers. There is also a scene in which Lei is watching the female protagonist KT punching at the bottom of the swimming pool, and then the two chat there without embarrassment or embarrassment. For the dialogue that did not develop any plot after that, this...
Regarding the plot structure of "Blood Warrior", let's compare it with "Captain America", not to say how outstanding "Captain America 1" is, but for the two protagonists, the basic characters have not changed much in the whole movie. And they are all similar to starting the rebirth mechanism and turning into a superhero.
But the reason why I think Steve's character is more complete in "Captain America 1" is that the film used a lot of space in the front to construct the lonely Steve before he became a hero, so that the audience can understand that he is too thin and can't join the army. Steve, who is often bullied, always has a heart that wants to defend justice, so that the audience can have more empathy for the protagonist.
In "Blood Warrior", we can hardly see the first half of Lei's life, even if the previous explanation is false, about Lei's character, basically relying on Vin Diesel and the RST boss behind the conversation, the few explanations that came out Sexual lines, it is inevitable that people will not be able to establish a good resonance bond with the protagonist.
Regarding Vin Diesel's acting skills, it's a bit rude to say that basically his peak strength was in "Saving Private Ryan", so Vin Diesel is still an actor excavated by Steven Spielberg at that time. , and then he became popular with "Fast and Furious".
One of the screenwriters of "Bloodshot" is Eric Heisel, who once adapted "Arrival". The original repeated reincarnation revenge mode of "Bloodshot" can still play a lot of new tricks, but the screenwriters used One of the most direct, simple and safe narrative methods.
Recalling the somewhat similar settings of "Source Code", "Edge of Tomorrow", "Memento", etc., you can compare the mediocrity of "Bloodblood", but it is a pity to waste such a good setting.
Seeing this, many people will say that entertainment is cool, the plot of the drama is not important, but the reality is that one example after another tells us that there is no support for the core of the story, even if you put more effort into the script of the drama, The improvement of commercial entertainment cool films will not be only a little bit.
We reviewed all the good popcorn entertainment blockbusters, and none of them despised the creation of literary dramas and characters. In the end, the key to these films we remember is the vivid characters in them, not the repetition of templates. Tough guy image.
Finally, let’s talk about action scenes. In the genre films that Vin Diesel has focused on in his acting career, he is more comfortable in action scenes, whether it’s fighting with muscles, fighting with guns, or fighting between humans and machines, drag racing scenes, etc. Wait, it can be fun to watch.
In the case of a low budget, the film deliberately reduced the scene space and used different elements to increase the visibility of the action scenes.
The film also tried to add some humorous elements. Although the effect did not achieve a natural fusion, it can be regarded as adding more highlights to the film, especially the hacker played by Lamony Morris, which can be regarded as the finishing touch in the film's characters. Now, compared to other templated Facebook characters, Lamony Morris's lighthearted and witty persona is impressive.
It's a pity that this hacker character appeared too late, otherwise it would have pulled up a lot of points for the movie.
Of course, if you just want to use the film to stimulate your eyeballs, the fighting scenes in the film can still make you burn.
I even think that although I have said so many shortcomings of the film, the public will like it when it is released in China, because as a director with special effects background, the combination of special effects, light and shadow, and action design in the film, there are several scenes. Still very cool!
However, it is estimated that it will take a while for the film to be released in China. After all, the epidemic is not over yet.
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