Zach really pulled his hips this time and returned to the theme of zombies when he debuted. Compared with "Dawn of the Living Dead", "Legion of the Living Dead" is fully funded and full of ambitions, including ancient slow zombies. , There are also zombie masters who can hide from bullets and have great skills. There are mutated zombie tigers and zombie babies who die soon...
It seems to have everything, but the whole movie seems to have no impression of anything. It can be said that it is big and comprehensive. In other words, it is complicated and not sophisticated. Although there are many fights, it is not very cool and a lot of sensationalism. The moving is basically zero, the horror atmosphere in the zombie film is not felt very much, the colorful Las Vegas and the colorful humor of the film cover are also simple.
This movie is like watching a person cooking on a shelf. He is obsessed while holding the shelf, but it doesn’t let you see what you’ve done and how you’ve done it. At the end of the meal, there are a lot of condiments, but the entrance is poor. It's tasteless.
Shallow focus and disappeared characters
Zach fell madly in love with shallow focus photography during the epidemic. A while ago, the ending egg of "Zach's Justice League", the part of the Joker was a shallow focus photography, only a certain distance can be taken clearly, so all the eyes of the audience are focused on the characters.
The purpose of this technique is to make the audience focus on something in the lens, so that the foreground and background become noise-like existence, which is very helpful for portraying the inner state of the character in a certain situation.
However, no matter how good things are, once they are abused, it will be too much.
In the film, Zac seems to use the shallow focus lens desperately. It has been so frequent that it has greatly affected the perception. Once the lens is given to the character, it is completely unclear, so there is a sense of separation between the character and the background. Their words And the behavior is even more abrupt.
Of course, the unpleasantness of the characters themselves is also to blame. Although everyone has their own backstory, all kinds of outrageous actions make it difficult for the audience to empathize with a character. Even after watching the whole movie, I hardly have a favorite character in it.
Therefore, under the premise of deliberately portraying the characters in the shallow focus, the characters themselves are not outstanding, which makes the "character-centric" narrative created by the shallow focus almost completely invalid, and the audience will inevitably feel tired when watching it.
Hodgepodge and four different
This film is almost a big collection of zombies. There are old and young, men and women, some people have animals, can walk, run and jump, there are silly and smart...
Not only that, there are also various settings in this film. For example, zombies will be dehydrated into dry corpses when exposed to the sun, and they will come alive when it rains. For example, zombies are actually sensitive to temperature. For example, zombies with IQ come from the bite of the zombie king...
But these, it feels like a setting, even if you remove it, it's no big deal, and it's a joy to stay. The blister zombies sound good, but you can’t rain on a sunny day in Las Vegas; you said that zombies are sensitive to heat, and it seems useless except for the plot to lure zombies to explore the way.
So the film was put for two and a half hours (it can be said to be very long for a zombie film), but there is nothing new. The big scene has not been played as high as Resident Evil, and the horror is basically zero. The humor is except for the locksmith Di There are very few other things, the zombie baby Zach himself is using it a second time.
There is nothing but nothing.
The decomposition of actions is difficult to defeat the chaotic logic
Zach's movies have always been good at action, and action scenes are naturally indispensable for fighting zombies, but Zach has turned in an unsatisfactory answer in this subject that should have a high score. The first is the chaos of scheduling during team battles.
The most obvious is when several people escape from the safe. The scene is basically divided into four parts, one is a black man and Dieter, one is a white-haired woman holding a chainsaw to cut the escape route, one is Martin being abused by a tiger, and the other is The protagonists Scott and Guzman clean up the miscellaneous soldiers.
Martin clearly said that he was going to the top of the building to find a helicopter, but he came to the ground inexplicably. The rest of the team should not be separated, but in the movie they are all isolated, which makes the plot seem to lack the necessary connection. It looks disorganized.
Another bit of confusion is the final climax. The zombie king and the hero are fighting on the plane, with a background of a nuclear bomb explosion. It is supposed to be a 1+1 scene, but the actual effect is far less than 2.
There was a fierce fighting scene in the helicopter, and the nuclear bomb explosion was a grand destruction from the plane, so one fierce and the other dignified, two incidents occurred at the same time, but weakened the overall performance effect.
Anyway, when I saw this paragraph, I wanted to vomit why the life-and-death crisis is.
There are actually many bugs in the logical scheduling problem. For example, the Zombie King just played with you on the top of the building, and you flew up to another building. The Zombie King also arrived in time. Dare the Zombie King be the Flash? ?
Of course, what makes me most regrettable is that the electric saw that pulls the wind, except for the mv at the beginning, it only saw a wall in the positive film? !
Every team must have a shit-chucking stick
Yes, every team must have a shit-chucking stick. This does not refer to an insider or a villain, it is simply a brainless person who exploded this pot of shit.
Scott's daughter Kate is one of the best shit-chucking sticks.
In order to save a good friend, she followed the team into Las Vegas. It was almost useless. Knowing that a nuclear bomb would come in a few minutes, she ran to the zombie lair to save people with a small pistol. Get someone else to save her.
She really saved her loneliness.
Of course, dad can't escape the blame if he indulges his daughter to become a shit stick. Knowing that his daughter's combat power is 2.5, he still let his daughter in. He said that he was not for a journey to repair the relationship with his daughter, but he was very honest. Ah, from time to time, I'd like to talk about how we should live when we have money. With 15 million yuan, let's buy a new food truck and sell tofu burgers.
It's really the image of a hitman engraved in his genes.
In short, Zach’s movie can be said to show all his shortcomings, and even his previous strengths failed to play well.
Shallow focus is abused in photography, logic is chaotic in action, and the plot is fragmented and far-fetched. It's not scary enough, nor interesting enough, so the film is so mediocre, but it is a predictable result.
Next time, it is recommended that the script should be polished and streamlined at least by someone, and photography should not be personally used for the fancy and impractical technique of shallow focus.
Spend more time thinking of a few ideas that will surprise the audience, maybe it's more worthwhile.
For example, the skydiving at the beginning is quite interesting.
(Although it is silly, there is no rocket bomb, and it is enough to wash the ground on a small scale with a fighter jet. The person who thinks of skydiving inside is really a little clever)
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