The three grandfather actors who are nearly 200 years old together are hinting at you all the time that this is clearly an action movie of the 1990s. Look at these classic routines: personality implant surgery with a little sci-fi color, dual identities of agents and criminals, perverted and extreme villain conspiracies, and a secret weapon with great lethality - how can you not believe it This movie is from more than 20 years ago.
The classic elements are all available, especially the warmth elements that were more advocated in that era, and even the whole movie was only left with warmth at the end. The emotional line of the male protagonist is too strong, and it is not an exaggeration to characterize this film as a romance. Carefully examine the action series developed from the 1980s and 1990s. Which one does not have those typical symbols? Even if there are different styles of the new century, led by The Bourne, they are not as influential as the action films of the 1990s. . However, as a movie released in 2016, similar themes have long been taken for granted, such as changing faces, changing brains, changing memories, changing personalities, etc., just say foreign movies, and even domestic movies and TV series are already tired of playing , not to mention that there is a crash of a movie with the same theme in the same schedule this year, and even the actors are the same.
For most of the first half of the film, the pace of the plot is slow, mainly because the hero's continuous flashback of memories after being implanted in his personality causes his confusion of self-identity and reshaping of his personality. Therefore, it is difficult for the film to maintain the fast-paced opening of the film. Basically, it develops intermittently, and the audience also follows the hero and wanders around after fleeing. The settings of the two personalities are completely different. One is a natural villain who has no human emotions, and the other is a conscientious agent who cherishes his wife and daughter. He actually started to reshape the character characteristics of the original villain's personality, and in the end he became that person as expected.
When the protagonist meets the wife and daughter of the agent's character, the status of the two personalities is gradually established, and then the film slowly enters the climax. This unrelated villain has to continue to complete the work of the agent before his death. Escapes, murders, encounters, car chases, kidnappings, and gunfights are all neat and tidy. In order to meet the dual identities of villains and secret agents, the action scenes are slightly violent, and the blood is slightly splattered. It is neither exaggerated nor sloppy to prolong the film time. Only those two missiles can make people see the exaggeration of action films in the 1990s. Hot style. I have to mention that if we want to count the most happy and sad villain in the movie, this one must be counted as one, but considering that the details have provided enough hints, the author is not surprised when the last moment comes.
The soundtrack has a huge influence on the film. To tell the truth, the soundtrack of this film is not very good, but it creates a very tense atmosphere and drives the rapid rhythm in the auditory, which is very infectious. However, as mentioned earlier, the first half of the film progressed slowly, and the whole film had a lot of flashbacks that broke the rhythm of the film, but what I heard in my ears was this rapid melody, which made people wonder whether to laugh or cry.
Gadot is really the brightest flower wherever she goes. In this film, her emotional scene with the villain who has the personality of her dead husband occupies at least one third of the whole film and becomes the most important clue to promote the development of the plot. . However, it is precisely because of the constantly inserted emotional drama that the rhythm is split. In the film, the rhythm of the plot to complete the agent's mission is fast; as soon as it returns to this emotional line, the rhythm slows down again. However, this rhythm of alternating priorities does not make people feel tired or boring. In addition, Kevin Costner, Tom Lee Jones, Gary Oldman's acting skills are really hard to pick.
According to the current public preferences, if this film can do more digging in the aspects of personality implanted science fiction concepts, villain character shaping or extreme philosophy, the self-contradiction and cognitive confusion formed by the protagonist due to the dual personality of the masterpiece may be It will form a good "deep" sci-fi action movie with a modern aesthetic. But what we finally presented to us was an old-fashioned action movie that started with science fiction, transitioned to action, and ended with warmth.
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Text: Shige
on May 14, 2016
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