Pull across the bamboo basket to draw water across the board - "Five Elements Assassin"
Today, let's talk about the American drama "Five Elements Assassin".
The film title Wu Assassins (2019), alias Wumen Assassin/Wu's Assassin.
When the Netflix American drama "Five Elements Assassin" was launched, I was really looking forward to it.
Because this show has two things to watch, or gimmicks. The first is the male protagonist Iko Uwais, who is known as "Indonesian Tony Jaa" and has appeared in several hardcore action movies "The Raid", "The Raid 2: The Mob", "22 Miles" and "Night of the Addictive". "All have excellent performances. The second point to watch is the American drama filmed by Chinese director Feng Delun, and see if he can make a little Chinese voice in the white world.
First of all, let’s talk about the overall viewing experience. As an American drama with action elements as its main selling point, it is also starred by Chinese and Chinese. Compared with Wu Yanzu’s “Into the Bad Land”, “Five Elements Assassin” is about 100 “Warrior” worse.
The action scenes and the plot are fully stretched, and they did not meet the expectations of the audience at all. Netflix is really wasting the enthusiasm of the audience.
An American drama that focuses on action scenes, there are a lot of splicing and editing scenes in the action scenes. I don't know if the director has no confidence in his ability to control the camera, or he has no confidence in the actor's skill level.
Worrying about actors is obviously superfluous. If you look through the credits, you can find that Iko Uwais, Catherine Winnick, Wen Feng, Li Lijun, Chen Yuyun, and Lewis Tan are all action actors. Has an action movie masterpiece.
The only explanation is the ability of the director.
The plot story of "Five Elements Assassin" is very strange. The traditional Chinese Five Elements elements are added to the American TV series, and the result becomes nondescript.
"Five Elements Assassin" takes place in the Chinatown of the old American San Francisco. A young chef named Jin Kai was suddenly fate, called "Dao" in the play, and was entrusted with an important task. Fate requires Jinkai to become the 1000th Five Elements Assassin, to assassinate the five hosts who control the power of the Five Elements, and bring the world back to peace.
And just like that, the whole story started without end.
At the end, you will find yourself looking lonely. I have seen a lot of films directed by Feng Delun, so I lowered my expectations for "Five Elements Assassin", but I still did not expect the story to be so sloppy, and the whole story was unexpectedly rotten.
"Five Elements Assassin" is to put a traditional American drama story on the coat of five elements.
Audiences who have watched a lot of American dramas can see at a glance that "Five Elements Assassin" is shooting Chinese fantasy themes according to the routine of American dramas. Since it is a Chinese director, it is necessary to add some Chinese elements to the American drama, so the five elements are selected.
This setup is fun but lazy, and the result is that both sides are not pleasing. Foreigners simply do not understand the direct relationship between the five elements, and only regard the five elements as the same basic elements as "earth, water, wind and fire". What we know about the five elements and the five elements are not reflected in the play at all. Except for watching a lively scene, it is useless at all.
Compared with the superhero themes of DC and Marvel, as long as you replace the five elements in the play with any other superpower, there will be no obstacle to understanding at all.
In "Five Elements Assassin", the superpowers of the Five Elements are really not enough. Not only does Fuhuadao look like a cottage, but it is more maddening and cool than the superpowers of DC and Marvel. Ability, the dignified Five Elements are also limited to low-level chaos.
When fighting with ordinary people in close quarters, the Five Elements rely on their superpowers to be invincible, but they are limited to bullying ordinary people.
Fire pedestrians, control the five elements of fire, the temperature of the flame can reach thousands of degrees, the main contribution is to control the flame to burn others to ashes. Probably a large human-shaped lighter.
Wooden pedestrians, able to heal themselves, can also heal others. But a medical soldier in charge of logistics has the most troubles.
Jin Xingren can control others by possessing himself, and control electrical equipment by the way. It would be a shame not to go to the power plant.
Water pedestrians, who make water out of thin air, are basically used to drown others. Her great ability was turned into a water park by her.
Tuxingren, who turned people into clay sculptures, disappeared. In addition to playing soy sauce, the biggest contribution is to last an episode.
Although the American drama "Five Elements Assassin" was not well filmed, the protagonist beat the white-skinned pig in the restaurant was very enjoyable. Although the filming of the TV series was not very good, at least I explained to the white pig the history of blood and tears of bullying the Chinese.
Although it is not as direct as "Warrior" to express the history of blood and tears, "Five Elements Assassin" is also a little proud.
The biggest highlight of "Five Elements Assassin" is the long-range lens. All the aerial shots and time-lapse shots in the play are beautiful, and the photography skills are still very good.
These show the strength, the money is not wasted, but it is limited to this.
The American drama changes the skin and the five elements are messed up,
Pull across the bamboo basket to fetch water across the board.
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