since the whole world knows that if Donnie Yen appears in a movie called "Martial Arts", then his role in the film is destined to be a master. Does Kung Fu become a suspense? It doesn't make sense. Perhaps the audience didn't quite know how the two gangsters were killed in the opening scene, but so what? As long as the opponent is Donnie Yen, people must be killed by him! Under such psychological expectations, the audience's focus is no longer on the opponent he killed by some inscrutable martial arts, but on when his identity as a master will be revealed. The story model of when to reveal identities is Hitchcock-style, not Christie-style. You can't argue step by step why he's a murderer when everyone knows he's a murderer (even if you haven't said it in your story, but everyone has known since the day you were cast). In other words, all the criminal investigation and reasoning dramas about Takeshi Kaneshiro carefully designed by Chen Kexin, whether they are narrations in Sichuan dialect, various flashbacks (the flashes are very messy and have no rules), or the dazzling scene reproduction of the fighting scene, under such a pattern, all It has become a superfluous act of taking off your pants and farting. That "strange journey" style of the so-called microscopic vascular martial arts also lost its most basic narrative function and became a visual gimmick that simply shows off the quality of a blockbuster.
Taking a step back, even if we don't go too far into the unnecessary investigation of Takeshi Kaneshiro, Chen Kexin doesn't seem to have provided many wonderful episodes of high IQ that match the reasoning drama: the tattoos under the ear of the corpse are so obvious that any ordinary work will not work. They should all be discovered soon; what kind of criminal investigation technique is a "post-mortem" forcibly staying overnight in the middle of the night? The most outrageous is when testing martial arts, picking people off the cliff and hitting the knife behind the back. Over there, you are advocating the modern concept of not favoritism and the supremacy of the law throughout the whole article, and here you are just out of doubt regardless of the life and death of the suspect? If it turns out that he really can't fall to death or hack to death on the spot in martial arts, what's the matter? Is this because the director is deliberately creating a contradiction between behavior and thinking, or is it due to lack of sufficient artistic imagination and not knowing how to make the interaction between the two heroes more interesting? Individuals tend towards the latter. Of course, we must also admit that the director does have the ambition to create a wise man like Jin Tianyi. However, due to the general lack of interpretation of Zhi, the character ends up appearing a little stupid. However, Takeshi Kaneshiro's neurotic performance style inherited from Chibi Kongming is quite appropriate.
After Donnie Yen's confession was revealed, director Jiang Lang was exhausted, and the story was laid out to the end: I took a shortcut back to the county, and I thought I was very nervous and arresting, but there is no second possibility in terms of character or story direction. The way the enemy family learned about it was also very "shortcut": the corrupt officials went directly to inform. After that, like almost all Donnie Yen films, the screen was taken over by martial arts. And the several literary dramas (such as broken arm and baby wrestling) that are responsible for series fights can only return to the old way of cheap and sensational - in which Wang Yu saw Donnie Yen's sad and indignant expression after breaking his left arm, as if to say: My stalk, what did you say? !
This is not as good as the two martial arts blockbusters of the same type released last year: "Sword Rain" and "Babel Empire". For the former, although the addition of Korean stars to this extra clue is enough for the audience to guess a few clues, the director knows that the ending of such a story must have suspense and sudden changes in the plot, and cannot simply fight to the end; and the latter is better. . Regardless of the level of the various complicated and chaotic subplots, at least they lead the audience by their noses in a big circle, making them almost forget the real murderer played by the big star who has already been explained at the beginning.
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