Nolan may really no longer be the Nolan he used to be.
In the past "Memento", "Inception", "Interstellar", even if the structure is brain-burning, there is still a strong and touching emotional core to support, and the protagonist has very distinct personal characteristics. But since "Dunkirk", characterization has been completely abandoned by him. Each character is a nameless person in the background, reduced to a tool person who is purely for the purpose of threading the needle. This is the main reason why I really can't like this "Creed". Again, if I don't know these people at all, why should I care about their stories and fates? What kind of person is the protagonist? What kind of family does he have? What kind of ambition? For what personal reasons would you be willing to sacrifice yourself without hesitation? We don't know the end of this. Not to mention the other supporting characters. There isn't any special emotional spark or conflict between them either, just "I trust you because you're my partner" "I trust you because you're my recruiter" "Because you're a poor weak woman so I'm going to save you" "I trust you because you have a good heart and you've been helping me", these emotions are too cliché, too basic, too boring.
Second, the visuals are pretty lackluster.
The visual spectacle that live-action shooting can provide is simply too limited. You crashed into a real plane, but so what? We have seen too many plane crashes, not to mention the ordinary crashing into the factory building from the runway. If you don't have the overwhelming publicity, the average audience may still think that you are so mediocre because you don't have the money to do special effects. The next-door Mission Impossible series plays live-action shooting, which focuses on a realistic sense of thrill. When you know that the actor is really hanging outside the Dubai Tower, really clinging to the take-off plane, and really skydiving above the clouds, you will instinctively sweat. But here, everything is just step by step. How can you feel the shock of a group of people running wild in a deserted sandy field, shooting at enemies who can never be seen? Photography is also unremarkable, neither shocking nor beautiful. I can't even recall a single scene after watching it. With such a final result, the sky-high budget may not be spent on travel and transfer fees to various countries.
Action scenes are still Nolan's consistent shortcoming. The design of the fight is too realistic, and I always see two people fighting each other for nearly five minutes in a street fight, which is not entertaining at all. Next door, Ang Lee at least knows how to add more fashionable tactical moves in the fight. You Nolan have time to be in the same frame as a setting that is conducive to divergent brain holes. In the end, he stayed at the left hook and right hook. The simplicity of a street fight is simply a waste of money. The shootout always lacks the enemy's shot feedback footage, and you see the protagonists running all the way, all the way, you can hardly feel that they are born and die in the hail of bullets, just shoot the air with the protagonist's halo, no sense of shock and investment .
Finally tell the story.
The whole story is really fast-paced and not at all sloppy. I still watched the first half with great interest, because the setting is very mysterious, making people want to find out. But when the motives of the protagonist and villain were revealed, I instantly lost interest in deciphering them. After a long time, a lunatic wants to destroy the world, and the protagonist has to risk everything to stop him. In the middle is also interspersed with most of the hero's rescue of beauty, the rescue is a wealthy lady who has nothing to do with the protagonist and nothing happened. It's like going to a high-end restaurant, and you give me a small-molecule mass of water with secret organic cherry tomatoes baked hot spring egg, which is essentially a tomato scrambled egg. Then why do I want to break my head to study how many degrees of fire you used to cook this mysterious-looking form, so that the egg can wrap the tomato but still the outside is tender and the inside is tender and yellow? After all, when he finally tasted it, it still tasted like scrambled eggs with tomatoes.
To sum up, this "Creed" is really a Nolan movie that disappointed me personally. I'm also not optimistic about how much commercial or artistic success it will have. After all, it is impossible for a movie to have more form than content and structure than narrative.
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