I watched it on the first day it went online, but I really wasn’t in the mood to write a movie review, and I didn’t know whether to take it seriously or just leave it with a sentence or two. Today, I will write a short and long review. The form of a tasteless film review is suitable for this film.
I've always been a huge Zac fan before, and even with the obvious problem of narrative inefficiency, his finely crafted tones and unmistakably authoritative selection have made my love unabated.
You are a purely commercial director like Michael Bay, he just doesn't have any concerns about the selection of materials, you shoot what you want for me. Furthermore, like Gole Verbinski of the "Caribbean series", which I like very much, he also has a habit of cleanliness in the selection of materials. It must be a weird theme, but there is almost no expression. In this batch of big guides, Zach belongs to both the clean selection of materials and the continuity of his content expression. There are not many directors like this in Hollywood. In American movies (note that it is "American movies", not "Hollywood movies") there are many genre directors with strong authors, but those who can do this in big studios , Nolan and Zach may be the only two.
The Justice League Director's Cut at the beginning of the year gave us a good impression of Zach, a version of the unfairly treated film that our fans have been waiting for for years, with a very good quality and enough Zach The tones, various fetishes and empty shots are paired with elevated and emotionally overloaded music.
So we continued to look forward to this "Legion of the Living Dead", and then, it was a fart.
Although the four hours of "Zhenglian" are long, it is fortunate that the characters are vivid, and a lot of space is regarded as acting on the tension of the characters, but "Legion of the Living Dead" is mostly "depicting" - what is the difference? It's that the characters in "Zhenglian" are efficient and concise. As soon as the characters appear, the tone and background are straight to the point. The follow-up scenes are to show them their own personality charm. "! Constantly using various inefficient passages to portray characters, such as a nearly three-minute shot of Baptistan sitting at home, watching TV in a daze, is a large piece of waste.
The character that everyone hates the most is that of her daughter, and a lot of criticism focuses on her "Virgin" or childishness. I partially agree, but I think the worst thing about this role is that Zha-director gave her too much space and it was uninteresting, which caused everyone to resent this role. This character spends a lot of time doing things other than the main quest, which is to save the family's children - it doesn't mean that there can't be side plots, but you have to put in enough emotion, instead of directly showing a poor woman, just let We go to sympathy, there is no such way to make a movie. And the role of a daughter also lacks the development it should have, such as how she understands her father in the middle, or how she doesn't understand her father even more. In essence, there is no reconciliation, and we still do things the way we did before.
This kind of problem is reflected in the whole movie, even the whole movie doesn't develop much. It's just a group of people stealing things, each has a ghost, and then the group is destroyed. Obviously, it can be more interesting in the middle. For example, about the plane, you can have twists and turns, instead of letting an actor who has special effects cut into it always worry about it. Another example is that the traitor who can betray the entire team is more dramatic, even ironic. After watching the whole movie, there are no twists and turns - this kind of look is very strange. Zach set a lot of details in the movie, several CPs, and several people who may betray the team, but all of them didn't work. At the end of the day, Zach has been "characterizing" rather than developing, and the progress of the entire narrative has been stuck on the first "construction". In the end, when the end is about to end, all the fun is like going through the process. The lock-picking brother sacrificed as a matter of course, even if he and the chainsaw black brother only knew each other for a long time; the plane came and went and came again, the standard last Minutes to the rescue...as if the Hollywood formula was all there, but the flavors were all bland.
I'm thinking that Zac's previous films are also despised for being long and inefficient, but I don't think his films are bad because of this, because a lot of his length is putting time on the sidelines other than the main line. I think this It is an advantage, which proves that he is trying to enrich the texture of the world in the film, rather than focusing on the development of a single story, which is a very important charm of film or literature. But "Legion of the Living Dead" happens to have a very concentrated narrative, the twists and turns of the mission itself, but it's so boring.
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