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first is the choice of actors. The male protagonist Jason Bateman, this is a typical face of a civil servant who is suffering from a mid-life crisis. In fact, Jason started early, and has been tepid in the film industry for many years. Personally, he doesn't like it very much. He should have paid attention to this face at the earliest in 2006's "Break Up Men and Women" and "Five-Road Pursuit", which also laid the impression that he often played with Jennifer Aniston and his supporting role for thousands of years. Jason has an impressive performance. In 2007 Dustin Hoffman and Natalie Portman's "Mary Gum's Magical Toy Shop", we began to characterize him as a civil servant who is undergoing a mid-life crisis. His signature expression is that tired, stinky face. The helpless smile squeezed out (if it can be called a smile). Afterwards, Jason began to receive widespread attention due to his participation in "Juneo" and began another stage of his career. "Juneo" has won many awards and nominations for its controversial social topics. In this film, Jason convinced the audience with his unique image of a middle-aged crisis helpless uncle, and his unique play style began to be recognized. After 2008, we saw a more active Jason on the screen of the movie, of course, accompanied by his unique temperament. Participated in "Nationwide Superman Hancock", "Birth of a Lie", and "In the Clouds", starring in "Squeeze" and "Partner Resort", but none of them performed very well, and their play has basically been fixed, and we are still It is difficult to connect him with the protagonist.
In 2010, Jason played with Jennifer Aniston again in "The Refinement Project", but this time it was a rivalry. Jennifer Aniston's works in recent years have rarely seen good films sincerely. Even if Aniston struggles, it is hard to regain his former glory. Jason's performance in "The Refinement Project" is remarkable, but he is limited to the level of the film's own production, and it is still difficult to get recognition. In 11 years, Jason tried to break through his fixed image in "Paul"'s British nonsense. He discarded the classic image of midlife crisis, but his performance was terrible. In the shadow of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, a pair of comedy geniuses, it has been difficult to gain a sense of existence. Coupled with the beauty of digital aliens and Kristen Wiig, Jason's poor acting skills are even more prominent. So we understand that the essence of the image of "civil servants who endure a mid-life crisis" is "a mid-life crisis", not a "civil servant." Then came "Evil Boss". I have to admit that this can be said to be Jason's most successful film. Its unique image is intertwined with the film's jokes, which makes people dizzy and changes some people's value to Jason as an actor. Valuation. It was this film that laid the foundation for the collaboration between Jason and Seth Gordon in "Identity Thief". When we were amazed by Jason's great gift, Jason immediately released a typical inferior movie "Two Men Transformed".
So, overall, Jason's starring role is not (or not) a guarantee of a good film.
The heroine Melissa McCarthy can be said to be one of the important reasons for the unsuccessful or failure of the film. Melissa is a new face to me, only in Jennifer Lopez's "Leftover Women Are Crazy", she has an impression of her "slender" figure. In this film ("Identity Thief"), Melissa's biggest impression is that her performance is out of control. Note that it is not an exaggeration but out of control. Some of the scenes even disrupt the rhythm of the film. Obviously Melissa's selling point is its unique "S" figure. This kind of play will naturally make people interact with Queen Latifah (representative work "Taxi Biaohua"), Zach Galifianakis (representative work "Hangover" series) and Martin Lawrence (representative work) Comparing the classic screen images of the "Undercover Fat Mom" series) and others, we are surprised that Melissa did not take on the main jokes in the film, and it can even be said that she is just a "puff", and the film’s laughter is based on the image. Supported by the rigid Jason Bateman, this anti-hostile deduction is in contrast to the usual routines. What we are not comfortable with is also inappropriate.
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Secondly, let's talk about the structure of the film. This is not a crime film, this is a very important point, and the opening of the film used a lot of space to give us a vicious and useless misleading. The background of the story is loosely explained in the first half of the film, and the explanation about the female protagonist stealing the male protagonist’s identity is more lengthy. For this point, we will have a concise explanation when comparing the two in the latter part of the film stealing the male protagonist’s original boss’s credit card. The sharp contrast, so we can have a clear understanding of the director's narrative ability.
This is not a road movie, at least not a typical road movie, which is also very important. Usually a movie of more than 2 hours has a huge story system, and this is not easy to explain (the extended version of "Two Smoking Guns" is only 120 minutes). In order to facilitate the narrative, the length of comedies in recent years is mostly 85 to 100 minutes (with special cases, for example, most Indian movies are longer than two hours), and the huge length of this film is "benefited" from the lengthy explanation of the failure of the opening. Because of this, the length of the film makes the relative proportion of the road plot that originally accounted for most of the film's length smaller.
This is not a divergent movie, which is especially important. Although the branch plot of the film has not been lost, it has little impact on the overall situation. The main two branches in the film are the killer team and the bounty uncle’s pursuit of the male and female owners. Of course, this is not the overall divergence of "Crazy Stone" (don’t compare with "Two Smoke Guns"), but An entangled branch line similar to "Stealing, Robbery". However, it dawned on us at the end of the film that although the two killers had appeared in the first part of the film and involved a branch line of the boss in prison (later found that the boss was not a line and was lost), but in fact, there is nothing for the whole film apart from triggering a road plot. The obvious driving effect means that the climax of the film is not based on the conflict between the main line and the branch line. So this triggered a "climax" that lasted more than ten minutes intermittently. It turned out that the director lost the climax.
Another branch of the film, the male lead family line led by Amanda Peet, is actually just a background explanation. Here I once again worship the director Seth Gordon. Usually, there are two ways for beautiful women in the film: to make vases; or to show acting. Seth Gordon creatively proposed using beautiful women as the setting. This kind of non-existent behavior is called Feng Why is Amanda Peet's fandom as a goddess?
This is definitely not a family movie, I am still very confident about this. The handling of the end of the film makes people do not know the so-called. I thought it was over but gave birth to a plot of more than ten minutes abruptly. Therefore, the movie is actually 90 minutes long.
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Finally, to summarize. The most important point is that the director's attitude is still very serious, and the film is made very carefully. In other respects, the heroine of the film chooses improperly, the storytelling is slightly inadequate, the plot is biased toward the road film (supposed to plagiarize the "expected date"), there are G-grade vulgar jokes, and the soundtrack is weak.
The overall impression is average, and it is not strongly recommended. It is not a failure in the general sense. Three stars.
As the saying goes, like fog, rain and wind, the martial arts of the eighteenth century are sparse.
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