The best part of the film is undoubtedly the visual effects. What is gratifying is that the visual effect of "Painted Skin 2" is no longer an impetuous and empty stunt show, but as much as possible to complete the storytelling. Although it is not perfect, this progress has a great impact on the start and formation of Chinese genre films. It's all worth celebrating, and that's a big reason why I admire it.
Of course, the film is not only about visual effects, but the core of beauty, ugliness, good and evil that it wants to talk about is easily weakened or covered by the gorgeous appearance. But in this kind of fantasy movie, you should also understand the purpose of your watching this movie. If you have to force the movie to give you what it can't give you, if you can't get it, whose problem is it?
Zhao Wei said that "Painted Skin 2" is the most complicated role she has ever had since filming. Zhou Xun said that this role will be a huge test for her. Indeed, the two core roles of "Painted Skin 2" require these two people to use their own faces to play two people, and they need to switch freely. It can be seen in the movie that although Zhao Wei's princess always has the shadow of "Mulan", the performances of the two are astonishingly delicate and perfectly touching. Zhou Xun is really like Jiang Wen. He is a gift from God to movies, and he is born a genius in movies. Good, just good.
A big problem that Chen Kun left in "Painted Skin" is even more apparent in "Painted Skin 2". Chen Kun's yin is too heavy. He played Yu Huatian in "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate" and was amazingly tailored, but he played Hu Wan in "Let the Bullets Fly" and played two generals in "Painted Skin". awkward.
The existence of Yang Mi and Feng Shaofeng has been said by some people to have nothing to do with the main line. For example, Feng Shaofeng wakes up Chen Kun to find the princess who has changed skins, and Yang Mi leads them to save Xiaowei and the princess's skins, and it is the crows attracted by Yang Mi who finally defeated the wizard Fei Xiang, here is a little thunder.
The emergence of the Heavenly Wolf Kingdom is always accompanied by some thunder points, which is an unavoidable problem. Fei Xiang's performance has a slightly strong implication of a Broadway stage play, which originally helped the wizard's temperament to look up to everything, but combined with the too long-winded Sanskrit lines in the film, every time Fei Xiang appeared, the audience laughed...
After watching a movie, the most immediate feeling is not excitement or disappointment, but anger at the thought of a comment from a film critic I've seen before. I am angry at this irresponsible film critic who, by his own temperament, used words to ruin a sincere film to nothing! Lost the most basic objective of a film critic! If you have to respect yourself as a film critic, you have no right to talk about a film at will like me and other assholes, otherwise what would the fans want you to do? Do you want you to lead us behind the struggling domestic film, squinting and mocking and insulting?
So even if the movie itself is not enough to be recommended, I would like to protest with five stars!
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