Captain Mojin on the New Long March Road

Before the release of "Dragon Searching", it had its premiere in Beijing, and it also had a small screening on Monday. After the two rounds of action, there was a lot of praise on the Internet, either boasting that the special effects were close to Hollywood, or boasting that the adaptation atmosphere was a few streets away from the "Nine-Story Demon Tower", or that "Long-hunting" led a new round of revolution in Chinese commercial films.

So everyone was boiling, clamoring to see it, and the New Year's Eve stalls that were silent throughout December were also in a state of chicken blood that was ready to go.

It must be admitted that this is the cleverness of the film party, or the success of marketing. Before the release, a small number of influential industry insiders and film critics have always controlled the export of word-of-mouth.

And never mention the plot of the movie, the story of the movie and the performance of the characters, etc., and always hide it. Only a small number of people are allowed to output positive comments on social media. From the production of the film, the industrial system, and the scene, the praise is endless, and from time to time, the "nine-story demon tower" is used as a comparison, stepping on the top, constantly emphasizing His own authentic touch gold fan.


Unlike "Unexpectedly", a large-scale screening equivalent to the public release level was held last weekend. Although the box office was achieved, the word of mouth was mixed. On the day of its release, the data said it all: 46% of the "Long-hunting" films had a box office of nearly 200 million, while "Unexpectedly," 40% of the films had a box office of less than 50 million.

Next, it is an indisputable fact that "Unexpectedly" will be completely suppressed by "Searching for the Dragon" in the film arrangement and box office.

Of course, it is not rigorous to draw the conclusion that the "unexpected" large-scale screening decision is a failure. After all, "Long Xun Jue" is born with a good look, and the theme of tomb robbery is very popular. After the word-of-mouth of the Nine-Story Demon Pagoda hit the streets one after another, the audience was already looking forward to this "Long-hunting Art", which had been previewed for a whole year. Moreover, "Long Xun Jue" was jointly built by the three largest private companies in China, Wanda, Huayi Brothers, and Enlight Media. It has powerful resources from all parties. No matter how you fight, "I never imagined" that it is doomed to fail.

But this losing posture has something to do with it.

Closer to home, what exactly is the "Long-hunting Art"? In my opinion, this movie, which is also adapted from "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", has a maximum score of 7.0, no more.


When talking about "Long-hunting Art", it is impossible to ignore the "Nine-Story Demon Pagoda". Compared with the latter, "Long-hunting Art" is indeed better than the "Nine-Story Demon Pagoda" in terms of scene and gold touch, but " The special effects and atmosphere creation in the first fifteen minutes of the Nine-Story Demon Pagoda are not inferior to that of "Long-hunting". on top of the visual experience.

On the contrary, the "nine-story demon tower" is anticlimactic, and the middle part is simply dragging time.

But just like the "Nine-Story Demon Pagoda", the story of "Searching for the Dragon" was a failure. "Looking for the Dragon" is boring, the characters lack logic and effective motivation, and there is a kind of empty feeling of pretending. It has never been able to give people a fascinating feeling in the plot like the weird and weird underground world he created, and the thrilling style of tomb robbing. The whole film is just filling the cutscene with occasional lame jokes, showing us a world of supernatural powers in a straightforward manner.


After watching the movie, the impression I have left is just Chen Kun's repeated lines of Mojin, the trio of Mojin's captain, and Xia Yu's startled cry, and Liu Xiaoqing finally jumped like a lunatic. A few words of Sichuan dialect.

In the entire film without a climax, Liu Xiaoqing and his party are not motivated enough to restart the tomb raiding journey for survival; Chen Kun and Huang Bo's guilt in anglebaby is not full enough, and the love between Angelina Shu Qi and Chen Kun is also ambiguous, whether it is touching the golden school Whether Yu Jinpan washes his hands or reappears in the rivers and lakes is inexplicable, and the American passages in the film are generally dispensable.

A "Dragon Searching Art" that does not tell a good story and only has a plot that is better than nothing, even if the art and scenes are fantastic and bizarre, it is just a "Dragon Searching Art" on the surface.


For me, whether it's the "Nine-Story Demon Pagoda" or the "Looking for the Dragon", because the starting point of the story happened at the end of the 1960s during the Cultural Revolution, those unavoidable red and specialized passages are the most interesting to me. Interesting part. After all, it was an irrational age in itself, and I always felt a strange pleasure when I mixed it with the weirdness and mystery in the world of tomb robbers.

In "Looking for the Dragon", I saw the little guard leader holding a red book carrying Chairman Mao's quotations on his back, and the leader smashed the "old four old" in the tomb. However, when shopping for the resurrected Japanese devils, I felt a CULT flavor Full. I am so eager to have a film that can focus on this level. If there is a day, it should be as crazy and wicked as "The People's Liberation Army Occupies Paris".

All in all, "Looking for the Dragon" may have made progress in the film industry that I don't know much about, and the special effects production has also reached a new level, but it is not such an excellent film, it is said that he has established a Chinese commercial film. A new milestone is too exaggerated.

The revolution has not yet succeeded, and Colonel Mojin on the new Long March still has a long way to go.



One last word: I really like Yan Zhuoling who plays Yoko in "Looking for the Dragon". She is a cool girl. I recommend her previous movie " Dancing Dance ", a very good inspirational film, which is also in recent years. A rare good Hong Kong movie.

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