What I have to say is that the name of this film is translated very badly. Although the name "Allied Treasure Team" can give an accurate overview of the content of the film, I always feel that the film with this name should be a nonsensical entertainment film. The level of stupidity of this translation can be compared with the translation of "The Matrix" into "22nd Century Killing Network". At the beginning of the film, it is emphasized that this is based on a true story, which made me inexplicably have some expectations. Not to mention grand war scenes and advanced special effects, at least it can restore some WW2 classic scenes. Take a step back and say that there is none of the above, then At any rate, there are still a few great actors and actresses who can look forward to the superb acting skills? Too bad things didn't go the way I thought.
At the beginning of the story, Marshal Goering of the Luftwaffe refurbished in Paris, saying that he would bring all these works of art back to me, and then there was a shot of the Führer overlooking the museum model. On the Allied side, Clooney reported to Roosevelt that they would start forming a team after they wanted to form Indiana Jones. The story has been explained more clearly up to this point. Unfortunately, it became boring and boring after that. The Treasure Hunter team began to run around, and when they arrived at a place, they asked the local commander that I wanted to protect the cultural relics. Can you cooperate with me? After being bitten by the commander, I use my brain to figure out a way, and the cycle goes on and on. Perhaps realizing this, the director specially dismantled the small team, which was originally a good opportunity to add drama, but I watched it for 10 minutes, and it was basically like "How is your mother?", "How many people are there in your family?" and "You speak French so badly". Can anyone tell me why this is? How does this help the plot?
After a long period of dullness, the film finally had the first improvement, that is, the cute old man with round eyes was found by German soldiers to pee in the woods, and then the two sides confronted and finally broke up peacefully. I thought this was a foreshadowing. , and then there will be a tragic story similar to "Saving Private Ryan" about letting the tiger return to the mountain to take revenge, but until the movie is finished, I don't know why the director and screenwriter joined this episode. Because after that German soldier smoked an American cigarette, he really walked into the fog without any further explanation.
Then the first victim appeared in the justice team. This guy went to the commander as he said before, and then he was bitten by the commander and decided to go it alone. After sneaking into Bruges, he was killed by Germany first. The officer overturned and killed him. After that, the German officers showed no professional ethics. After firing 2 shots, they turned around and left. They didn’t even check to see if the enemy had hung up. They didn’t ask their soldiers to come and find out if there were any enemies in the church. In short, it was ten steps to kill. One person can travel a thousand miles. When the matter is over, the clothes are gone, and the merit and fame are deeply hidden.
Then maybe the director thought the side missions were not exciting enough, so he added a German bear kid playing sniping to another group. The original intention was to highlight the difficulties and obstacles in the process of capturing treasures, and the second is to highlight the cruelty of the war so that such a small child could Pick up the gun. But after the director's tricks are equally distributed to each actor like pepper noodles, what should really stand out is not shown. The scenes of several bigwigs are divided into five and five, and it is unclear who is the main line.
Later, the second victim appeared again, but this guy died even more wrongly, and the way he died was as inexplicable as before. Well two people are driving on the road, one has to get out of the car to watch the horse, and the Germans on the other side have to hide in the grass. Then the group of Hans boldly rushed out of the grove and dashed towards the car.
To say that Matt Damon's plot line is also inexplicable. First, people are dying, but he is protecting his sister in Paris. When he is done, the girl takes the initiative to say that this is my address---"Home 308", this product will be sold again. run away. Cate Blanchett's various non-cooperation before, and all kinds of explicit hints at this time, is it to highlight the noble sentiments of our allied officers and soldiers? Although the director did not arrange a bed scene for Matt, after all, his wrist is still a wrist. By the way, the audience sitting in the front row of me couldn't stand the early exit 20 minutes before this episode.
The subsequent stories are still of no help in highlighting the theme of the story, not to mention that you play this kind of sad and eerie record in the Ardennes forest at night, and the atmosphere is the same as that of a ghost movie. Even the protagonist Clooney also behaves like a lunatic. Sitting in front of the German officers with a cigarette, he described his post-war plans: returning to his hometown, eating donuts, reading Time magazine, etc., and after a bunch of blah blah blah blah blah, he came out like nothing. So who can tell me what this scene is for?
Maozi finally appeared, and it was said that he was going to take over the mine. At this time, the pace finally picked up. Through the constant switching of the camera, I tried to express the urgency of time. I even thought that Clooney and Maozi would fight for 300 rounds for cultural relics. But Clooney was taller than us, chatting and laughing with his teammates, while safely transferring the statue of the Virgin, leaving a star-spangled flag before leaving. The most bizarre thing is the political commissar led by Mao Zi. After a long journey, the task was not completed. He also found that he was slapped by the Americans. Not only did he not show an angry and annoyed expression, but a meaningful smile appeared. Immediately reminded me of the expression of Dwayne Johnson opening the safe at the end of "Fast and Furious 5" and seeing the empty inside.
Well, the story is basically over here. Now let's look back, this is a first-class cast, second-class script, but made a poor film. The whole film does not have a clear theme. In the end, is it to explore the importance of life and art? Or is it to express the destruction of human art and civilization by war? I originally thought that there would be a "Saving Private Ryan"-style structure: In order to protect the cultural relics, the Treasure Hunter team worked hard all the way, and suffered heavy casualties, and finally chose to sublimate the theme 1, or to find a different way, focusing on publicizing the treasure hunter team's hard work. In the end, many treasures were destroyed by the hands of the Nazis, leaving lifelong regrets, which naturally led to theme 2, but unfortunately the director did not choose either. In the end, the film does not have the spoof of "Inglourious Basterds" to the end, nor the lighthearted humor of "Escape from Tiger's Mouth", nor the human torture of "Apocalypse Now", nor the realism of "Black Hawk Down". , Playing literature and art can't play "The Pianist". So the rest is really only relying on the cast to trick the audience into the theater and hypnotize the ending.
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