I still remember the shocking feeling after watching his "Face Change", "Prison in the Air" and "Breaking the Dead Island" in one breath in the audio-visual class. Later, I saw a column about him in a film and television magazine with the title: Nicholas, decadence is also sultry. This is the most accurate summary of him I've seen so far.
Not every actor can be as elegant and melancholy as Liang Xiansen who feeds the pigeons for a lifetime. What's more, in the strict sense, Uncle Cage is only the beginning of his film career. Of course, the consequences of diversification often mean the beginning of a batch of bad films.
Speaking of "The Robbery Cloud", objectively speaking, it is really not that bad or bad. The propaganda said that this is the second collaboration between director Simon West and Cage after "Prison in the Air" after many years. Of course, Cage has changed from a middle-aged uncle to a middle-aged uncle. But as two partners who have worked together successfully and are also directors and actors who specialize in action films, it can be considered a pass for such an apparently small-production genre film to reach the current level.
It can be clearly seen that the director is paying homage to the old Hollywood action films through this film, or getting closer. The first shot brings out a strong feeling of the 80's, or even the style of earlier action films. It expresses this feeling and style vividly. If you didn't know, you thought it was entering the nostalgic special. The story told by such a lens is destined to not be the current Hollywood action movie full of high-tech and all kinds of explosive speeding scenes. So what you see is that Cage led his team to use the methods of the last century to pick locks at sliding doors, and there were no hackers, no infrared rays, and no hanging roofs. Some of them were just the most simple methods and ideas. The FBI is all, high-tech infrared scanning can't complete high-definition pictures, and catching a robber mainly depends on the number of people. In the robbery process at the beginning, the director has clearly told the audience that this is a nostalgic story, a nostalgic experience in the background of a modern action movie. Nowadays, Hollywood movies of the same type are compared, because there is no comparison. You can't compare opera and rock, which one sings better, right? Take a look at the accomplices who responded to them, the van, the lights off and parked in the underground parking lot, and the precise calculation of time. If you have watched the same type of film twenty years ago, you will definitely not be unfamiliar, and even feel intimacy. There is also the scene of the FBI rushing to the air and chasing on the street as always, is it not unfamiliar?
So Cage and Vincent (played by Josh Lucas), who have finished stealing the money, will disagree on whether to kill the old scavenger, because old-fashioned heroes (the collective name for the protagonists in action movies) are not for the scene. Good-looking plots with explosive and casual headshots, this is very different from today's action movies. So many people will be dissatisfied with the standard of this movie. Think about it, too, the bank has robbed it but made a fuss for an old man. This is not the purpose of a hero. In the cinema, I could clearly hear the faint laughter when the film was played here, the kind of laughter that I thought was too incredible.
Then the main text of the film begins, every prodigal son after being released from prison will have the determination and appearance of repentance, and the reason is nothing more than his wife or children or his wife and children.
But the reality often tells him firmly, you want to be beautiful! ! The reality here is ex-gang members and ex-police rivals. These past events are haunting you, not to mention that this time is a 10-million-dollar business. Of course, kidnapping a girl or something is not a problem, and the police are as unbelievable as ever. Become a lone hero and accomplish another feat.
It is estimated that few people can make tricks under such an old-fashioned plot, not to mention that this film does not have the ambition of Oscar, nor does it have the determination to become a classic, some blunt carnival parade background, some old-fashioned The hostages were placed in the trunk. Of course, Lucas, the kidnapper, had a sound insulation effect this time, which is barely an innovation. Driving around the city in a hostage car is not surprising, and something goes wrong in the middle is a must. That's why I feel that this movie can't be emotionally adjusted.
However, even in such clichés, there are still bright spots. For example, Uncle Cage escaped from the police chase. Between running and jumping, I vaguely saw the white vest running in a sea of explosions in "Prison in the Air". The Cameron, I am afraid this is also the intention of director Simon West, to pay tribute to and cherish the past roles and years - after all, there is no going back.
Cage got the ransom to rescue his daughter. , but it cannot be denied that this is really the director's brightest idea in this film. In this film that exudes a strong nostalgic emotion, this is one of the few bright spots, with a little black Humor, and a little helpless. But really refreshing.
After watching this uninspired movie from beginning to end in the theater, it is more sad than disappointment. In the era when such movies are regarded as high-end and popular, a group of Hollywood action stars have been created. These people have both Muscles have their own characteristics, which can clearly let the audience know who is who and what they are playing, but now, the film technology is so superb, the film makeup is so advanced, and the film language is so rich, and the audience is really more and more difficult to distinguish between this and this. .
Action idols in the past movies are getting more and more unable to run, and they are less and less able to act in the current action movies, and they are not keeping up with the current era. In those scenes that were originally familiar to them and the audience, they were still running as always, but the audience had already left the scene and left a memory. Maybe it's not that the film is bad, but that we, as the audience, are no longer used to and like this kind of plot and arrangement. Chocolate is as sweet as always, but the audience's taste changes.
The day of yesterday cannot be kept. Heroes, like beauties, cannot be kept in the world.
Perhaps for heroes, the twilight is not terrible, and no one cheers, it is the saddest ending.
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