However, because of the addition of two male stars and a good story framework, such a narrative level and visibility are too unsatisfactory. From the perspective of the picture and the degree of completion, the director's sincerity is still there, but The ability is not enough, and the script and the actors are wasted.
Originally, the story of revenge is very interesting and imaginative, not to mention the grudge between a pair of battlefield veterans. The director used too much space to show the personal life of the veteran played by De Niro, and the main plot of the confrontation between the two was much weaker. A good story framework has many highlights and stories that can be tapped. The best commercial version of this story is a lonely and guilty veteran living alone in seclusion. The opponent who was once on the battlefield suddenly appeared in front of him one day, so The two started a war with only two people on the mountain. They were proficient in using war survival skills. You come and go. The veterans were suddenly attacked from the beginning and instinctively used professional skills to survive. The passive mentality slowly began to change. During the pursuit, the villain showed his cruel side. The grievances and grievances between the two on the battlefield gradually became clear in the dialogue and flashbacks. The villain must portray the cruelty and inhumanity, like a cold-blooded revenge machine. In the confrontation, the veteran slowly realizes the redemption of his own spirit, becoming a story of confrontation between good and evil, and finally the hero wins.
The director chose to discuss human nature, but because of his ability, he presented it to the audience with a clumsy expression technique. Because Volta plays the villain in this play, it must be useless to let him play a killing machine, so a confrontation story that is also an enemy and a friend is shown. There is no problem in itself, and it will definitely be better than before. The "Stallone version" described is more classic and long-lasting. But this kind of feeling of being both enemy and friend should start from confrontation, slowly brewing in mutual hunting, especially arranging several wonderful rivalry scenes, and mutual appreciation of each other's skills and understanding of things as soldiers . Of course, this rivalry must not be a face-to-face hand-to-hand fight, preferably an intellectual one. Because this is the easiest way to resonate. Volta's character should be a human character with a story. Revenge is just a personal grudge and a heartbreaker, not a cold-blooded killer who must retaliate. At the end of the story, in a positive decisive battle, the mutual appreciation that had been brewing in ambush in the front was released, Volta's inner demon was solved, and both of them got their own redemption.
But this film just turned the content of confrontation that should be extremely important into tasteless. From the beginning, the two faced each other and started to fight each other. The whole plot is that you abused me once, and I immediately attacked again, and then everyone abused each other again. Once, the hatred was released after three rounds. The lines are highly didactic, the confrontation plot is slow-paced, and the content is scattered. This film is like chicken ribs, tasteless to eat.
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