Fist to the flesh but out of step with the times

Kameron 2022-03-26 09:01:12

"One Man's Martial Arts" directed by Chen Desen is strict and similar in structure to its predecessor "October Siege". It is like a game movie, rather than a story that can exist in reality. Although "October Siege" has won many awards at the Academy Awards, Nicholas Tse's performance is sincere and touching, but Qing soldiers ambushed in the streets of Hong Kong and attacked Sun Yat-sen in batches. Similarly, in "One Man's Martial Arts", Wang Baoqiang played the role of Wu Chi Feng Yuxiu, who attacked the major martial arts masters respectively, just waiting for Donnie Yen to play Xia Houwu to come to the peak duel. The tight and suffocating rhythm, the fist-to-meat fighting, and the cold and violent atmosphere of the CULT film seem to have become the magic weapon for this popcorn to cover up its failures.

As the quality of films such as "Together", "Havoc in Heaven" and "The Frozen Man" collapsed, Donnie Yen

became notorious, and degenerated from the "best hit in the universe" in "Ip Man" to "the king of bad films". In "One Man's Martial Arts", he really started to work hard.

In addition to lone hero who beat 17 people, in addition to actively parkour on the roof, the buddy not only has to take care of the cute junior sister Bai Bing, but also assist Yang Cai Ni to

solve the case, and finally To shout the main theme of "Don't strive for the best in the world" in a voiceover, he seems to want to return to the state of "a generation of masters" in the "Ip Man" era

, but everything lacks new ideas. Looking at the failures and pitfalls of "One Man's Martial Arts", most of them focus on Wang Baoqiang's

line. To be honest, he always uses dialect-flavored Mandarin, and frequently shouts "both victory and defeat, but also life and death" and other facialized lines. ,

how to hear how so deliberately. In addition, after Donnie Yen was taken down by a bus and fell to the ground with serious injuries in the climax scene, Wang Baoqiang ran up viciously and

continued to say those ridiculous nonsense like killing you and I am the best in the world, and then waiting to be killed by Yang Caini's sneak attack. The cheesy

sparks laughter, and it's incredible.

In the era of IMAX+3D, guns, super weapons, and satellite positioning have all come out. How can there still be people and things like "assassination by martial arts"

? You listened to Donnie Yen saying that the killer is "practice boxing and leg training first, then grab weapons, from the inside out."

A martial arts movie, forcibly implanted into a modern blockbuster. Of course, "Purple Rain", "Spy Shots" and "October Siege" all

won Best Action Design at the Academy Awards, proving that Chen Desen is definitely not a cover for action control. Today, "One Man's Martial Arts" has

martial arts jointly designed by experts such as Donnie Yen, Yuan Bin, Yan Hua, Dong Wei, Liang Xiaoxiong, and its effect is undoubtedly the strongest of the year. Whether it

's the Hong Quan of the Nanquan King or the heavy legs of Shi Xingyu, Donnie Yen really kills and fights, which is full of explosive power and dazzling

. Especially in Shi Xingyu's design, a huge skull skeleton was instantly trampled off by Wang Baoqiang. The peak

atmosphere completely set off to the extreme. Wang Baoqiang pierced Wuxing's body with a sword, Fan Shaohuang used

a sword and a long stick to fight to the death, and the former took out a small knife, "one inch off an inch" to win .

Donnie Yen and Wang Baoqiang's peak PK is on the highway, from mutual demolition to long stick melee, and then to the thrilling

escape , which is full of thrills.

This film was born after the fiasco of "Frozen". For ordinary audiences and theaters, it is extremely difficult to buy it. Everyone knows the allusion of "The Wolf is Coming"

, but "Wulin" has sincerity, and its ending is a bit cruel. You must know that Wang Baoqiang really split his legs and played well.

Although his image is a bit shabby, he is enough to fight. Although Bai Bing, "one of the four beauties in the capital",

played . No matter how aggressive and forthright Yang Caini's policewoman is, she can't hide her beauty.

Donnie Yen, who is almost 50 years old, also put all the kung fu he had learned in his life to the edge, but everything seems to be too late. The plot is similar to that of "Fighting" at the

beginning of the year, equal to the popcorn works of Shaw Brothers era, and there are various slots and thunder points, but the scene, action, and atmosphere

design are more advanced. "One Man's Martial Arts" played very well, but it didn't keep pace with the times. This may be directed by Donnie Yen and Chen Desen.

Playing helpless! In the tribute at the end of the film, the golden age of many Hong Kong kung fu films are vividly displayed in front of us, even surpassing the feature film, which

is moving. As for the theme, "Wulin" is similar to Lin Chaoxian's "The Sharpshooter". Don't go into trouble because of "the best in the world",

and then mutilate others and those around you. The hero Xia Houwu competes everywhere, mistakenly kills people and goes to prison, killing his master;

Feng Yuxiu, whose wife died of cancer , isn't it?

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