"Jack Reacher" has its own world view, a stern and impersonal modern city, which remains unified from beginning to end, and is consistent with the sinful world in Lee Chad's original work. To the end, he kept changing his personality, like a big tour of his screen roles in recent years. The unpredictable appearance when he appeared on the stage seemed to be a reappearance of "Murder by Borrowing a Knife", and his concentration and restraint in investigating the case was quite the legacy of "Minority Report". The opposite sex is coming, that is the singer of the "rock year", the street is rogue, and the bathroom is ruthless. It is called the "dangerous spy battle". Self-confidence is full, despise the opponent's school, and the eye is in a hurry , and retrieved the impression of the part of "Mission Impossible 4" in Dubai.
Some people will say that since Liang Tang has played those roles, of course there will be traces left, and it is not surprising that people have the feeling of "reappearing yesterday". Yes, actors can of course draw inspiration from past performances for their current roles, but the point is that after patching things together, what is created is a plump, flesh-and-blood character, or a polyhedron that makes people feel at a loss. The Jack Reacher that the author saw in the film "Xia" is more like to make himself cool, fierce, playful and affectionate, and staged and staged to show the most attractive characters from different films. On the other hand, these shining points have not been convincingly integrated into one character, but instead made Jack Reacher like a split personality, and his personality will change from time to time, almost suspecting that it is a counterfeit who has caught "Mission Impossible". human skin mask.
The only thing that made me give up this suspicion was Liangtang's endlessly cool instincts whenever he had the chance: he had to shake his head before speaking, and only slowly opened his mouth after changing several expressions; walking was like walking on the runway, sometimes "You're handsome, you don't pay for your life", sometimes "the person who blocks me will die", the themes are rich, and the shots are very long; before taking the Remington to target, you have to turn over gracefully and slowly, and repeat the poster pose; There must be no shortage of drama. Personally, I think Liang Tang has shown good acting skills in the field of action films. The aforementioned "Murder with a Knife", "Minority Report", etc., even if he plays the villain, or is chased by the city and flees in embarrassment, he still has his own bones. It's cool, without deliberately posing, and without the rebellious or silent settings of the early "Top Gun". It is undeniable that Liangtang's appearance, body and gestures can still make the hearts of most women and a few girls speed up, but if an actor who is over 500 years old can only rely on intoxicating smiles, smooth muscles and swaying posture to eat, Somewhat sad. The coolest part of Jack in the film is not the male model's head and posture, nor the self-repeating tough guy style in the hail of bullets, but the high-spirited spirit when making inferences about the case calmly and confidently. Unfortunately, there are too few and too few.
In Lee Chad's "The Prodigal Son" series of novels, there are rich and delicate inner descriptions of Jack Reacher, and several of them also use the first person, so that readers can understand his motives without difficulty. And the movie tends to make him a lone ranger of old-fashioned westerns, too much emphasis on the mystery of the high and the low, his inner world is blank, and there are few occasional struggles, choices, anger, self-deprecating and triumphant. Submerged in endless fun. And compared to the novel, the Jack in the movie is too perfect. From intelligence to force, he completely overpowers the opponent. When you watch the scene, you know that the suspect has been wronged. After listening to the briefing of the victim, you know the motive of the murderer. The license plate number has not been checked yet. Guess the truth closely, and in the end, with the cover of an assistant who adheres to the principle of not killing, you can go to the meeting alone and wipe out the opponent, and you don’t need to worry about the law enforcement agencies. The opponents are so vulnerable, people just hate why Jack didn't clean them up sooner. The reason why it took 130 minutes may be that he really thinks he is too handsome, and I'm afraid we haven't seen enough.
Compared with the novel, the movie is of course a lot simpler, but it is not as clean and neat as the original. The "finger biting" scene is very redundant. Jack's long lectures from time to time also block the rhythm and shake the audience's bladder. These are not problems in the novel. It can even be described in detail, but in a movie advertised as an action movie, if the scenes are not changed for too long, the audience will definitely feel bored. Compared with the novel, the biggest advantage of the film is the visual release of humor, the laughter is very dense, but just like the character shaping of Jack's character, it is full of style inconsistencies. The scene of two armed thugs attacking Jack has the black style of the Coen brothers as mediocre criminals. Jack hangs up the phone three times, which seems to be done by rough guys such as John McClain. The female lawyer "Where's my car?" is very common in American police and gangster films; The daggers were drawn from the bullets flying, and the good-hearted passers-by provided hats for cover. It was also a cartoon-tuned hero film routine. Most of the jokes have a good amusing effect, but they are not like a part of the whole film.
In the commercial production of Hollywood, it is rare for this film to equate reasoning and solving cases with hard-line actions. Either three or five divides two to get clues and rely on layers of chasing and fighting to advance, such as "Die Hard" and the Bourne series. , or focus on intellectual confrontation and light physical conflict, such as "Dragon Tattoo Girl" and "Insomnia". But there are also a lot of gems and jades in similar works, digging into exaggeration, such as "The Great Detective Sherlock Holmes", romantic classical reasoning and blind boxing duel and other surreal actions complement each other, moving towards realism, early tough detective black films can be selected, go to At the end of the century, "LA Confidential" is another wonderful example. "Jack Reacher" is somewhere in between, with rigorous forensics and logical deductions, wheelchair detective-style magic tricks, sniper-to-shooter emphasizing ballistics, 1970 Chevrolet muscle cars racing without background music, and Put down the firearm at the critical moment, and compare the style of the 80s with bare hands. However, the literary and martial arts, which are obviously similar in style, are mixed together but neither ends. This chivalrous detective seems to be hovering between the hero and the detective, trying to get the best of both worlds, but neither of them is done well.
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