A bad script doesn't match a good acting, set, and score.
The whole story is too bland, there is no breaking point at all, the movie seems to be trying its best to paint the magnificent picture of Japan's Warring States for us, so it needs to be comprehensive, how the gunman who assassinated Takeda fired, how the spies spy on intelligence, how the retainers Chatting, these are not to say that there is no need, but there is no need to repeat similar plots over and over again and spend a lot of time.
The movie also spends a lot of time describing Tokugawa and Oda, but it is still the same old-fashioned way of masking, and nothing new. The plots of the two of them are basically the same. For the same event, Tokugawa's reaction was repeated, and Oda's reaction was repeated again, which directly led to the fact that although the film was three hours long, the content was quite small. In my opinion, this is a deliberate pursuit of breadth by not aiming the camera at the protagonist.
The anticlimactic problem is very prominent. At the beginning of the movie, the dark and solemn atmosphere, three warriors who look the same but have different personalities, and a scene that lasts for seven minutes, the impact of these factors is quite shocking, and it completely whetted my appetite. , but the more I saw it, the more tired I became. Until the end, the secret that had been hidden for three years was not foreshadowed, and it was suddenly exposed, and then it seemed that overnight everyone was saying that the Takeda family was over, which was inexplicable. Sheng Lai also has a headache. Originally an impulsive but self-motivated man who decided to get rid of his father's shadow, he suddenly turned into a straw bag that would only give away people's heads, and our protagonist had no influence on the battle situation at all. When it was over, I followed up to deliver it myself, which I really couldn’t understand.
The character of Shadow Warrior itself has grown, from being unruly and just being himself at the beginning, to awakening and trying to play Xinxuan (Actually, the scene by the lake is also a bit abrupt, why did he suddenly let go of himself when he heard the conspiracy of the spies, and went I played someone else), and then I got used to it, and I started to not be able to distinguish between myself and Xinxuan (this is what I made up in my brain, it would be nice if the movie could talk about it more). Die, or maybe he already sees himself as Shingen at this time. If the film can concentrate on telling along this thread, adding more details and deleting irrelevant plots, it may be more exciting.
I looked at other film reviews and said that there is a satirical meaning to the bureaucratic structure. The center of power is a thief who has not been detected for three years. A posturing joke, from this point of view, is still pretty cool.
Looking at Muyu Shuixin's interpretation of the film, no one is Xinxuan, even Xinxuan himself, they are just shadow warriors in people's hearts. And the invisible Xinxuan, the image of Xinxuan that lives in people's hearts, or his beliefs and spirit, that is, the shadow that is bigger than Xinxuan himself in the opening scene, is what really holds people's hearts, think so. The words are indeed enlightening.
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