Despite the participation of oriental people, the atmosphere of the whole film is still European-styled, but it uses foreigners to tell an oriental legend, and like most foreigners, most of the legends have changed their flavors through rumors.
If Koreans make this magical film by themselves, it may not be worse than this film, but unfortunately they chose to co-produce with the United States, and the strong alliance in special effects cannot hide the loose plot of the story. The opening of the film creates a phenomenon of confusion between dreams and reality. The hero and heroine both have predictions of fate in their dreams, but they are not pure prophets, but some things in dreams have really become reality. The reincarnated Jack of the old master is always the hero behind the scenes, changing his body shape to help the protagonist get out of danger time and time again, but he never gives a helping hand from the front. These are all very unclear and unexplained behavioral motives, which led to the intensification of the disaster, and hordes of monsters attacked LA. It is obviously to pave the way for destructive scenes, in order to make it possible for monsters to fight with human technology. As for the urban street battles of destruction and resistance, it is indeed very popular, fully exploiting the performance potential of computer special effects, but some details still show traces of 3D. For example, the armor pieces that flew out in the big bang, the overturned truck fell to the ground, and it was clearly seen that it was a computer model. The light ratio is not coordinated, the color does not transition, or there is an unexpected luster. Maybe because there is only less than a second of time, it flashed by, so I chose not to call the expression of thick lines. The part of the python circling the Liberty Building has a condescending and condescending feeling, and it is not difficult to see the ambition to catch up and surpass the classic paragraph of the Empire State Building in the movie "King Kong". In fact, when the final battle of the Dark Castle sacrifices the heroine, there are more shadows of the new version of "King Kong": monsters, altars, and a hero who loves the protagonist deeply. The sound effect of the final climax of the dragon-snake melee is slightly monotonous, and the electronically synthesized dragon-snake and snake-song is basically a variation of the sound effects of mammals. The fighting scenes are mainly close combat. Due to the huge size, close combat is also a big scene. The snake's twisting and the dragon's gnawing are basically insidious and deadly. After the snake was upgraded to become a dragon (it’s strange, the snake became a dragon, our traditional way is to let the carp jump over the dragon gate and become a dragon~ It’s so good, it doesn’t hurt peace), it combines the legends about dragons shared by the East and the West. , gathered the strengths of hundreds of schools, and created a snake-body dragon image with claws and no wings, beards, scales and beards (the western dragon heads are surrounded by web-like objects, like a bib). The battle between dragons and snakes is truly earth-shattering, but I just don't understand why the "snake" chosen by God had to appear at the last moment? When the serpent of evil was the protagonist before, the serpent of justice watched helplessly as hordes of monsters devastated the men, women, and police forces in LA, but remained indifferent~~ Where does the so-called "justice" come from?
This film has too many mythological elements in the background, such as the legend of dragon slaying, the snake that brings evil, and the hero's struggle against fate, etc., but none of the elements can be used as the central force to unify the whole story. Basically, it can be summed up as follows: God chose a woman as a sacrifice, both justice and evil wanted it, but the priest eloped with the sacrifice, and finally the sacrifice realized his destiny, so he sacrificed himself to justice and justice. Victory over evil. There are "fate", "betrayal" and "love" in this narrative, but the lack of shocking power and exciting rhythm is the biggest shortcoming of this film. Those examples without behavioral logic mentioned at the beginning are more prominent. This kind of fragment without coherence constitutes the main storyline of the entire film. It seems to be a cat-and-mouse model, but the giant snake has no clear purpose. For example, it will eat supper at the zoo, and stage the classic scene of "the snake swallows the elephant if the heart is not enough"; for example, the task will suddenly change the world. , when it is unclear whether it is somewhere on the earth or under the altar and giant tower in another dimension - the base camp of evil forces; another example is the male priest defending the sacrifice woman in the case of the sacrifice crisis, and suddenly divine power burst out, Inspired by heaven and earth, summoning the divine light has the effect of the Buddha's relic in "Heroes of Heaven and Earth", destroying all the shrimp soldiers and crab generals. But at the top of the Liberty Building, when the beautiful woman was about to die, and when the male priest embraced the beautiful woman to protect her, there was no response from heaven. This kind of abruptly disjointed plot is a bit confusing, and it also shows the limited level of the screenwriter. It seems that the main point of director Shen Jionglai is just to show that he can do CG well, and can shoot pictures with realistic special effects, not to rule out a magical movie that is good to watch. If this is really the purpose, the director can get his wish. Apart from the special effects, there is basically nothing else worth mentioning in this film.
Or maybe it will be more attractive to change the plot of the game. After all, the content of the game has more uncertain interactive factors, and players may still be able to reminisce.
Forget the movie, just go ahead and watch it.
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