Obviously, director Steven Soderbergh/Steve Soderbergh wants to use Gina Carano's training background, as well as her fighting skills and skills, to make this mixed martial artist a new action actress . But no matter how bad an action actor is, he can't only have a good scene. In other words, to become an action star, it is not enough just to play, but also to act. It's a pity that Carano is not the stuff. And her poor acting and unattractive on-screen persona have wasted stars including Antonio Banderas, Michael Douglas, Ewan McGregor, Channing Tatoo A large group of handsome guys and uncles who played for her, including Mu/Channing Tatum and Michael Fassbender/Michael Fassbender.
The movie uses a typical chain-set structure, with Carano's Mallory Kane employed by a company like the Secret Service that serves the U.S. government. And during one operation, she found herself being framed. In order to avoid tracking and find out the truth, she began to run away. In the process, she finds herself being used as a pawn at the mercy of her immediate bosses and ex-boyfriends, Kenneth (Ewan McGregor) and Rodrigo (Antonio Bandera) who have assigned her the mission. s).
This could have been a good feminist movie. Although there are many similar films in Europe and the United States, most of them are like the series "007", "Spy: Impossible" or "Blooming Shadows", with men as the absolute protagonists, and the female characters are either sexy vases or troublemakers. Or a right-hand man and partner. And what's so valuable about this movie is that it subverts that common gender stereotype. Whether it's the cunning Kenneth, the sinister Rodrigo, the wily Coblenz (Michael Douglas), the unintelligible cannon fodder Aaron (Channing Tatum), or the passing MI6 spy Paul (Michael Law) Spinder), they were all there to showcase the heroine's wit and courage and her grasp of her abilities. It is a pity that although most of them were beaten by Kane played by Carano on the screen, these actors directly KO Carano in the performance.
In addition, I don't know if the director pursued the reality of the action too much and did not make the fight scenes more dramatic. In fact, in many action movies, in addition to using editing techniques to make the action connections look more exciting, they also deliberately slow down the shooting by one or two frames in pursuit of visual effects, so that the actors' movements on the screen appear faster due to the accelerated projection speed. Clean and tidy. This short, frequent and fast visual effect also makes contemporary audiences have higher requirements for action processing. Maybe watching it live, Carano's fights are wonderful and her physical fitness is amazing, but action movies are not action documentaries after all. For viewers accustomed to the visual fast-forward processing in action films, this film is too realistic to present Carano's fighting skills on the big screen, but instead makes people feel that the heroine's movements are a bit clumsy. In a word, an action movie is not just about finding someone who can play. To play a movie, you must be able to act first.
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