I have lowered my expectations in advance, but I still didn't expect this film to be so boring.
Alas, let's talk about the advantages and disadvantages of this "Super 9" first, it can be regarded as a lightning protection guide.
The following content involves serious spoilers, please watch with caution!
Let's talk about the advantages first.
advantage:
① The style returns slightly. Director Lin returned to the series after "Super 6", as the director who directed the largest number of films in the entire series, as the director who witnessed the series from the trough to the culmination, and as the director who created the best quality film in the series, his return this time Undoubtedly it is quite eye-catching, and he has indeed injected a bit of old flavor into the ninth work of this series. In this movie, he re-excavated the family issues of Mr. Don that were briefly involved in the first film, including his father's death, imprisonment and so on. There is also a slight return to the street racing game again. Although it is through memory flashback, this kind of fundamental drag racing taste is quite nostalgic.
②Continue to climb the pinnacle of imagination. Do you think that airplanes, tanks, and submarines are the limits of the speeding family? NONO, the "Why don't you go to heaven" that was originally treated as a complaint after the end of the eighth part has really become a reality! In the ninth part, he really "fly into space" for you! As far as this imagination is concerned, let's not say whether it is unreasonable or not, just say whether he dares to think about it.
③The series connects small eggs. Han and Mia returned one after another, Paul Walker’s little sports car also made a surprise appearance at the end of the film, and Helen Mirren also played a little soy sauce, and counted the unexpected appearance of the third Tokyo trio. There are quite a lot of small easter eggs in the previous work. Of course, the biggest cheer is the end credit Easter egg. Guoda Statham will undoubtedly return to the tenth part, and what kind of collision will occur between him and his "subordinate ghost" Han is also full of suspense. . It can be said that these easter eggs not only make people remember the past, but also make people look forward to the future.
④ Full of laughter. Conventionally, the mouth-cannon duo still contributed most of the laughter in the film. However, in addition to their mouths, many designs in the film also clearly point to the jokes. For example, Ramsey’s "Novice" and several uses of magnetic weapons, as well as cue, "Star Wars", "Minions", etc., are all clearly pointing to the design of jokes. In the movie I watched, the movie-watching atmosphere was indeed activated very well, which is stronger than the pure mouthpiece of "Gaiden".
⑤ There are many action scenes and there are no lack of bright spots. If you have very low requirements for this type of A-level blockbuster, as long as there are big scenes you will be content, then this film is completely OK, it has enough action scenes, and some drag racing scenes are completed very well, just take it out and watch it. , The refreshing feeling is still enough. If you look at the special effects purely, it's not a loss at all.
The advantages are almost the same. Let's talk about the disadvantages below. You can see that this film definitely has more disadvantages than advantages.
shortcoming:
① The style is cumbersome. There are a total of five directors in the nine main stories of the "Quick Exclamation" series. The style itself is not uniform. The first three are street racing, four or five can be regarded as gangsters, and six or seven are completely special agents super British. I feel Lin Lin Before making "Super 9", the guide must have watched the previous series many times. This one is simply all kinds of stitching. Take this one out, and the other one out. Let's save it, eh? "Super 9" is out! At first glance, it looks pretty fine, but it's broken like this!
② Wenxi pulls the crotch. After the series was upgraded from the fourth part to the A-level production, the illegality of the role has always existed, especially after the speed family became agents. This extremely misplaced role positioning is quite strange. This is also an agent film, so I do things logically. I'm not going to pursue it so much, but I can't stand this movie, which is so messy about logging, especially since there are no other two bald heads. The level of the drama really fell off at once, and there is really not much I can tell. , Paul Walker’s absence made the direction of the script really too limited. Good guy, "Gaiden" got a younger brother, and "Super 9" also fired a younger brother out. Really have been cooking cold rice?
③The story is quite absurd. The direction of the play is not a problem, so you can tell me a little, let's not save the world, don't be so blunt. Whether it is the enhancer of "Gaiden" or the space vehicle of "Super 9", it is really outrageous! In fact, it's okay to recycle it, and I just want to say zz. However, it is easy to change from frugality to luxury, and it is difficult to change from luxury to frugality. It is too late to change the rudder head now. Alas, is the next one really going to be Star Wars?
④The narrative rhythm is slow. The alternate back and forth between memory flashbacks and real-world tasks made me feel very haggard. In addition, the main story was also filmed in bits and pieces, and the actual impression was quite uncomfortable.
⑤ Performing disasters, and the camera failed to hide the ugliness, but even more timid. Many people have complained about it before. Lao Fan really can’t act in a literary drama, so he can only act as coercion. Don’t let him have too many complicated scenes. He can’t handle it. Just give him close-up shots. Woolen cloth? In addition, whether it is the old drama bone (Helen Mirren), the Oscar queen (Charlize Theron), or the action star (Zhao Xina), the performance in this film is almost broken. Seeing.
⑥ Series dating. The first among them was that Director Lin re-activated Han and allowed him to "resurrect", which directly overturned the setting of "Super 7", although "Super 8" and "Gai Chuan" immediately followed Guo Da, but You brought Han back to me in "Super 9"? What a schizophrenia! How does "Super 10" count? Resurrecting Giselle or Paul Walker’s brother "to join the army"? You can eat books, you can change the settings, but you have to be a little better, right? That's it? It's really enough, producer, you are killing the fans!
⑦The action drama is mediocre. I'll take out the drag racing scenes separately, which mainly refers to the melee scenes and gunfight scenes. First of all, there are few hand-to-hand combat scenes, and the fights are messy. Whether it's the fight in the secret base patio, Zhao Xina and Lao Fan’s house, or the car roof Zhao Xina and the villain's solo, they are very boring. The violent sense of the actor didn’t show up at all; the gun battle scene was even more funny. The gun battle scene of going to the wreckage of the plane at the beginning was nothing short of an “anti-Japanese drama”, and the mercenaries in the back fired the guns, basically it was a firecracker. . In the situation where the gunfight is getting tasteless, the hand-to-hand combat is not well shot. It is really a disaster. After all, you can't keep racing.
⑧ The drag racing scene is slightly repeated. The shot scheduling of the scene of crossing the minefield at the beginning of the film is actually quite comfortable, and the overall quality is not bad after removing the issue of rationality. However, I was a bit over-utilizing magnetic weapons later, and it was OK once or twice. It was really too many times, and the aesthetics was exhausted. In addition, the highlights of the drag racing scenes in the whole show are limited, not to mention that the ghost cars of "Super 5", "Super 7" and "Super 8" are more surprising.
⑨ Poor character creation. This is mainly manifested in three points. One is that Zhao Xina and Lao Fan’s sense of fatalism (or CP feeling) has not been created at all. If Mia is included, these three people are not brothers and sisters at all, not to mention the issue of appearance. The three of them don’t know each other in the film, which is too embarrassing; the other is Theron, the biggest boss of the latter trilogy, has not been able to create a force at all. If "Super 8" is still "half fairy and half stupid" "Egg", then this movie is completely broken, it's a desperate elementary school student, there is no feeling of "devil head" at all. Alas, I can only say that there is "Super 7" Guo Da's jade in front, there is no way; then there is the return of Han, I still can't figure out why he arranged a suspected love scene for him? Not to mention Giselle (Gail Gadot), is there no suspicion of pedophilia? It's weird!
Then briefly complain about some things in the film, this is not really a shortcoming.
Make complaints:
① Lucas is still a middle school student in "Super 3", how come "Super 9" is older than Han Du?
②There were two black inmates in prison where Fan was in jail when he was young, and the traffic police were checking the car. Did you cue the Freud incident? Not really!
③Did Theron offend the stylist? This hairstyle is simply ugly!
④Mia is still beautiful, but because of Paul Walker’s absence, this role is very embarrassing, and the chemistry between her and the speeding family is gone in this movie. It’s really weird. It’s just that I didn’t play the eighth movie. Why? Will it be like this?
⑤ The return of Han, who had been fired for so long at the time of the announcement, turned out to be just a gimmick. He also installed an extremely outrageous emotional scene for him. It's absurd, brother, I can't make complaints anymore.
Next is a bit of thoughts of the series of fans:
When I was young, all my classmates around liked movies like "Harry Potter", "Transformers" and "Spiderman". "Fast and Furious" is not on the same level. Although this series is very small, and it was a B-level film in the early days, but this kind of cars, beautiful women, and muscular men were quite shocking to my young mind at that time. Take the first part as an example. Paul Walker is in charge of handsome, Mia is in charge of beauty, Michelle is in charge of Sao, and Lao Fan is in charge of acting. The drag racing scene, ah, it's still pretty good when I think of it now! Although important roles were absent in the second and third periods, they maintained a certain series style. Then there is the turn of the series "Super 4", from this beginning the whole series began to get rid of the niche attributes of early street racing, and gradually upgraded to A-level production.
One of the characteristics of A-level blockbusters is universalization, and "Quick Exclamation" has also undergone a certain universalization, but this will cause a certain conflict with the original B-level film attributes, and the two will collide. The illegality of the character is mainly manifested in two aspects. On the one hand, the protagonist is getting better and better. From the original blockbuster to the agent to save the world, the logical rationality is quite unbalanced; on the other hand, it is the series. After the film expands into the cinematic universe, the transformation of the role relationship is manifested in the energy gap between the newly added and left roles. How to round the relationship between the characters is also a very important test that every work faces.
In "Super 5", Director Lin chose to gather the heroes. At the time, he really didn't expect to see the first four characters appear one by one. It was quite hilarious, coupled with the imaginative drag racing scene of Brazil pulling a safe on the streets. The best series is undoubtedly! In the subsequent "Super 6", although the drag scene has been further upgraded, it is only the drag racing scene of the battle tank, and overall it is still a bit weaker. In the subsequent "Super 7", due to Paul Walker's unexpected death, the whole world went crazy, plus car parachuting, two wearing buildings, which can also be called spectacle drag racing scenes, and the series's most successful villain, Guo Da Statham, it's not surprising that this film became the highest-grossing film in the series. "Super 7" can further include "Super 3" and "Super 6" into the series to be connected in series, which is already quite good, and the death of Paul really has too much influence on the film, Wen Ziren can adjust The degree of completion is quite good. Next are the two "Super 8" and "Gaiden" that have significantly declined in quality. The former is of average quality except for the ghost car racing scene, while the latter is even more mediocre.
Looking at the previous works in the series, it is not difficult to find that, in fact, the biggest highlight of this series is the drag racing scenes, such as "Super 4" stealing oil from the underside of a truck, "Super 5" street safe, and "Super 7" The high-altitude speeding parachute and the ghost car that traversed the building twice and "Super 8" are all quite stunning drag racing scenes!
If it is supplemented by action scenes above the standard at the same time, especially close-to-fight combat (for gunfights, as the protagonist gradually transforms into a superhero, it will be tasteless), then it will be even cooler! The most obvious is the "Super 5" Boulder VS Lao Fan, and the two scenes of "Super 7" (Guo Da VS Giant Stone & Guo Da VS Lao Fan), this kind of violence to the flesh is absolutely quite It can make people's adrenaline soar.
Of course, there must be literary dramas that are not too outrageous, not for how delicate the emotions and how ups and downs the plot is, as long as they are not too outrageous.
But what is it all about? First of all, the rhythm of the whole film is very fragmented. I want to return to the first three generations and dig out some long-forgotten street racing cars without offending the basic laws of the A-class blockbuster, plus Paul Walker’s The accidental absence made almost all the literary dramas fall on Lao Fan. He really couldn't handle such a complicated literary drama. In addition, after many changes in this series, the illegality of the text became more and more obvious. It was originally a subculture circle movie. Even if it became a speeding gang, but the gratitude and enmity are still there, now it is really a widow to become an agent who saves the world! The features of the series are gone, and the highlights of the drag racing show are getting fewer and fewer, alas. You can't be critical of commercial blockbusters, but you can't pick the right one! In addition to the use of magnetic weapons, the drag racing show is really quite boring. Whether it is a space tank or a "newbie", it is all a joke, not a drag racing show!
The tenth cinema film in 2021. 5/10.
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