Can't help but sing a hymn and digress. I love him, but I also have to admit that in [Absolute Power], his directorial power is weak. The filming of a tripartite wrestling story is too long and protracted, and many details cannot withstand scrutiny. The story is very ambitious. It takes the president of the highest point of American power and uses a long section to show his inner ugliness. But in the second half of the story, as the most powerful person in a country, except for ordering murder (and it is still a very lame kind). Method) There is no better emergency response. Most of the time, he asked three subordinates for help, and in the end he was killed. Gene Hackman is not fierce, but he is a traitor. He is considered a treacherous villain in many movies, but this film is his worst villain.
There are still many unreasonable points in the plot. The thief shows up and tells the police to check his phone. When he turns back, the police can immediately arrest the people in the White House? And how the suicide Secret Service member thought about this treatment, he didn't know how to make up the next move. This behavior was not explained by a dying "I am sorry". I see some movie fans questioning that the president committed suicide so easily. From my understanding, the president was killed by his friend, Mr. Sullivan, because the paper knife had the president’s fingerprints and blood stains on it. Mr. Levin said that he committed suicide, and both of these are impeccable evidence. The final ending can still be explained, but the whole story is too pediatric to deal with. It's like because the previous time was used too much, so the old man can only shake things out in the last ten minutes. Especially the inexplicable love between the thief's daughter and the police is even more dog-blood. You can't spare the time to tell the story well, so why waste the film on such irrelevant passages?
I imagine the situation would be much better if the movie is controlled for one and a half hours. Mirroring is still an old-fashioned restraint, but the story itself does not adapt to such a slow rhythm. It needs to give the audience a sense of urgency, not because of procrastination. And the dull feeling produced.
The story is very courageous to shoot at high-ranking politicians. Everyone in the performance is at a normal level, and I like the little humor in some of the lines, but these are not enough to save this uncontrolled movie, old man After [Unforgivable], [Perfect World], and [Covered Bridge Last Dream], I may be a little eager for quick success and powerlessness, which resulted in this relatively unsuccessful work.
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