Spent the morning watching this movie. The overall feeling is that the director and screenwriter are telling everyone that the Cold War is back!
The film begins with a terrorist attack, which leads to an economic confrontation between the United States and Russia, so that the United States has become a natural victim and has to fight back, and finally foils the enemy's conspiracy and wins the respect of the American people, represented by the President of the United States.
According to this process, many spy movies can be made. Just change the skin color of the characters in it. It is difficult to make such a movie well, especially in the era of the proliferation of spy movies. It is even more difficult to come up with new tricks. This movie is very unfortunate, although the elements in the film are very rich, the United States and Russia, spy wars, terrorist attacks, love, patriotism, 9/11, Afghanistan, Wall Street, financial wars, high technology, etc., involve a wide range of content, and the time span is also It's very big. Ordinarily, such an arrangement should have a relatively clear visual feast type of film and television feast even if it falls out of clichés, but it didn't. Every place is involved, every place is not deep, and the feeling is very thirst-quenching, even love is vague and inexplicable.
Under such a plot design, the actor's room for play has been greatly reduced. Pine always gives people a feeling that he can't use his strength. After being injured, he feels that the director wants to say that his joint efforts in love and his own will create miracles , recovering the skills of the agent, but the story on the screen tells a different story at all, and it gives me the feeling that he was not injured that badly at all. And the operation in Moscow seems to have been designed, it is like this, it does not make people feel how extraordinary this agent is. During the process of demolition of the bomb, he and the gangster were in the same car, and he was still driving. The scene is just incredible. The action design is also very inexplicable and unattractive, and the time is too short and incoherent. The all-round agent has to concentrate on several aspects to perform, and it will not be distinctive if it is spread out. The love between him and the heroine is even more so. There is not a lot of foreshadowing. The heroine's transition from restraint to devotion is simply inexplicable, and there is no point at all.
There are many big names in this movie, except Pine, Knightley, and Cosnert, Arnos, Fiore, etc., all of them are my favorite actors, all of them are acting, but in this film In the movie, they are as rigid as vases, lifeless. There is a lack of coherence in the plot design of the film, and there is not enough echo between the front and back. The director wants to express a lot, but there is not enough time. Maybe it is caused by capital operation, or it may be personal experience.
In general, the cast of the movie is strong, but the story is weak, the rhythm is not strong, the timeline is messed up, the characters are not professional enough, the characters are wobbly, and the movie is made for the movie's sake.
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