Since the first "Underworld" was released in 2003, the series has passed 13 years without knowing it, and now, the fifth part has come out.
The fifth part this time continues the unique style of the entire series. The picture is in black, gray and white, revealing a touch of melancholy blue, reflecting the tone of the whole story: depression.
Kate Beckinsale still has the iconic mid-parted long hair, black tight leather jacket, neat and handsome fights, with sharp and deep eyes, the goddess is still so cool and glamorous, sometimes there is an illusion, the whole series is actually just to show her off of beauty.
Kate Beckinsale
The shooting of sequels has always been a difficult point to grasp, which is to choose which ones to continue and which ones to innovate. The continuation of the film's aesthetics and character style is undoubtedly correct. This is an important reason for the success of the first film, but the continuation of the plot is a failure.
Because, the continuation of the plot presents a simple repetition of standing still.
In the fifth part, a new leader appeared in the werewolf. He regrouped the wolf clan and launched a counterattack against the vampire clan. In order to improve their respective abilities, the two sides competed for the special blood of the protagonist Selena and her daughter. , if you are careful, you will find that this story actually returns to the origin of the first part. The two camps are lined up and restarted, and then there are the old-fashioned conspiracy, betrayal, etc. All the bridges that can be seen in the first part, but wonderful It's not as good as the first one.
Basically, the fifth film is a rough copy of the first story. It does not expand the worldview of the entire series. On the contrary, it shrinks and the story pattern becomes very small.
At the same time, the emotional elements such as love that appeared in the first three films and family affection that appeared in the fourth film did not find a comfortable placement in this film. The characters lacked emotions and expressed rigidity. Selena's love for her daughter, It has become a mantra. The emotional relationship between the male protagonist David and his parents is not clearly presented from beginning to end. With the dark picture and the depressing tone of the story, it makes people feel that this is almost a work without any warmth.
Looking at the whole film, there is a feeling of ending for the end and shooting for the sake of shooting, which makes people seem boring and sleepy, but in fact the film is only 92 minutes long, which also includes the introduction of the former situation, The screenwriter's talent is exhausted and Jiang Lang's talent is exhausted, and the performance is quite obvious.
For viewers who haven't watched the first four films, it will be even more painful, because the introduction of the prequel at the beginning of the chapter is so mysterious, pretending to be tricky, playing off, messy pictures, it looks very dazzling, and the low voice sounds cool, But I just don't know what to express, the whole cloud is foggy.
As the finale of the entire series, we were looking forward to a wonderful ending with a big scene and a high level of force, but we did not expect to usher in a small-scale, low-profile hasty affair.
The audience's eyes are sharp, and the market response can be imagined with such quality. The film was released in the United States on January 6, and the box office in the first weekend was only 13.1 million US dollars, and its freshness on Rotten Tomatoes was as low as 19%.... ..
It is an honor for a movie to have a sequel. It represents the quality and market appeal of the movie, and fans are also happy to find the old feelings in the sequel, but I don’t know how long ago, the sequel, to some extent, It has become synonymous with bad films and misappropriation of money. From "Terminator 5" to "Star Wars 7", from "Westward Journey 3" to "Macao Fengyun 3", what fans are looking for is not feelings, but constant disappointment.
There is an idiom called enough is enough, and the same is true for making a sequel. If there is no good plot and good ideas, it is better not to shoot. Even if the whole story is not complete, Venus can be broken. Why is a good story not at the best time? Just stop it?
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