In order to pursue a different viewing experience from "The Bourne Bourne", the director disrupted the film's timeline. Therefore, watching the film in a one-time fast-food style requires a certain understanding. In fact, you only need to remember the conversation between Mallory and the soy sauce man in the car. There are several keywords in the conversation: "Barcelona", "Dublin", "Kenneth", "Rodrigo", "CIA" ”, connecting these names of people and places together is the coherent story of the film.
Let's adjust the timeline. The first is that Rodrigo and the CIA hope to take the opportunity to eradicate Jiang, a colleague who has political differences with the Mexican politician Scott, and Kenneth, the intermediary of the professional killer company he is looking for, also hopes to kill the retiring killer, the protagonist of the film, Mallory. So, co-directed two scenes in Barcelona and Dublin. The mission of saving the hostages in Barcelona was actually very successful. Jiang was successfully rescued, but Rodrigo and Scott killed Jiang and blamed Mallory. At this time, the killer's junket, Kenneth, sent a part-time hitman played by Fassbender to kill Mallory in Dublin. It's a pity that not only was Mallory dismantled, but he also accidentally discovered Jiang's body. At this time, Mallory was not sure whether it was the CIA's work or his company betrayed her, but when she answered Kenneth's call Know what happened. So began all this revenge plan. What needs to be clarified is that Mallory is not from the CIA, and secondly, neither is Channing Tatum, he is from the killer company, and he died only to find out that he was deceived.
After the plot is sorted out, it is not so strenuous to watch this film, and at first glance, it is really the female version of "Bourne Bourne". No wonder Soderbergh disrupted the timeline, presumably for fear of film critics gossiping.
However, the most noteworthy aspect of the film is, of course, the retro action scenes. Why is it said to be retro, because the previous action movies did not have the concept of jump editing, and they basically used fixed camera shooting, the action is coherent and gives people a sense of reality, but this requires very high requirements on the actors. The female protagonist is a professional MMA (mixed martial arts) athlete. There is basically no problem with the movement, but she has suffered from a lot of handsome guys who played with her, and she has to endure the humiliation of her crotch when her nose is bruised and her face is swollen. However, the hand-to-hand combat with real knives and real guns made the audience very cool, especially the "click" sound of broken arms and legs in the soundtrack, which made the audience immersive.
The film is not only liked by male audiences, but also more sought after by female audiences. All the male characters in the film are tall and mighty, and in the end, they still lack arms and legs under the "flower fist embroidered legs" of the fierce girl. But although the action is sharp, it lacks some of the beauty in action movies, and people who watch it are still unsatisfied. It is right to try to edit, but it also needs to take into account the overall feeling of watching the movie. From Sandy
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