Kingsman: The Golden Circle 5.5
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The first time I knew Matthew Vaughn was in Kick-off, an earlier antihero R-rated comedy that could be seen as a precursor to Deadpool.
That was also the peak of Chloe Moretz's appearance. When the peak of appearance was only in Lolita, it really contributed to the arrogance of Lolicon. After that, her skeleton, face, and facial features will become bigger and bigger. It seems that she has not yet passed puberty, so she is anxious to match the old predecessor of Deyi Shuangxin, Xiao Li, of course, this is a digression, and press first, from " "Ace Agent" can be regarded as my routine operation, and it is too much to deviate from the appearance of the super-killer girl.
The Prodigy's "Stand Up" is one of the coolest hero appearances I've ever heard, even though Kick Ass, who stepped on the rhythm, is a high school student, and he's probably handsome but will be punched by street gangsters in three seconds. down.
At that time, Cage, who was running on the road to the king of bad movies, cosplayed a Batman, and was brutally killed at the end, and Matthew Vaughn's murderous addiction to the protagonist was beginning to emerge.
X-Men: Lesson 1 doubled my love for Matthew Vaughn and officially put him on the "Directors to Keep Watching" list. Youth, retro, basic love, the addition of these new elements makes this slightly old-fashioned superhero IP suddenly fresh and refined.
"Ace Secret Service: Secret Service Academy" not only respectfully inherits the many advantages of many secret agent genre films, but also has rebellious deconstruction and pungent satire. The smile is simply stunning.
On the basis of a deep understanding of genre film routines, it is Vaughan's specialty to rebel and improve in a small way.
②
So the whole line rout of this movie shocked me.
In life, the most fearful thing is that the sea was once a sea, and it was Zhuyu who was in front. It was only after breaking up that I found out that my ex-girlfriend was too good. There are sequels to Kick-off and X-Men, but not Vaughan. So "The Golden Circle", as Vaughan's first official sequel, was filmed like this, I never expected it.
③
He is repeating himself. Whether it is Jiang Lang's talent in the type of special agent film or simply arrogant narcissism, regardless of whether the new director who has always been good at anti-type and micro-innovation begins to repeat himself vulgarly, it is a pity after all.
Valentine represents the American fast food culture. He directly confronts Harry and wanders among the political elites of various countries. He is weird but also very provocative and charming. Although he is generally funny, he does not lose his heroic bearing. Poppy has inherited the symbol of American culture and inherited Valentine's neuroticism and big ambition, but she hides in the mountains and forests, and her plan is too stupid to break the human imagination.
The tavern teaches gangsters to passersby. The first part is really a stroke of genius. The lines, action design, and high-tech equipment are maddening. The untouched repetition of the second part has already made people mutter, and it is almost betrayal that it intends to create a joke by knocking down the heroic image of Uncle Face.
Valentine's unprovoked headshot to Harry is a cult. This kind of core protagonist has just finished brushing the copy with MAX force, and the design of dying and dying can shock people to aphasia, and "The Golden Circle" Merlin's death in it is full of deliberate traces, unnecessary, unmoving, and not shocking. It is purely the director's homicide.
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You go ask Orson Welles what rosebuds mean, ask Nolan if the top has stopped at the end, ask David Lynch Rita and Betty which part of the dream is, they will definitely not give a firm answer Answer, although generations of sophisticated emperors have given various convincing interpretations, the director is still willing to create more imagination space for interpretation of the film by laughing without saying a word. Misreading or correct interpretation are valuable secondary creations. . However, there is always a premise here that the director must be well aware of his creative intentions.
And Matthew Vaughn probably doesn't know where "The Secret Service" succeeded, otherwise he can't explain his complete betrayal of the previous work in the second part.
The church massacre and the fireworks of the human brain in the first part are all imaginative carnivals like flying fairy, so evil and so addictive and impressive, this is one of them. The budget of the second part has increased by an order of magnitude, with more special effects, more sci-fi equipment, and more exterior scenes. Sure enough, the agent loves to travel around the world when he has money, but after seeing so many action scenes, all are mediocre. , lively to lively, after all, boring.
The underlying narrative of the first part is the confrontation between British and American cultures, chivalry and British gentlemen, against American fast food culture, and against alienating electronic technology. In reality, we may obediently accept the domestication of Apple products, golden arches, and Hollywood popcorn movies, but it does not prevent us from entering the screen and cheering for the grace and character of the British gentleman. This is the second. The second British gentleman was almost wiped out, and he defected to his American cousin in despair.
The taste of cultural differences can be talked about when the UK and the US meet, but not. The former teammates, including the suspected heroine of the previous movie, were almost wiped out, and there were a few interesting American agents to support the scene, but there was none. As the boss, Champagne's only function is to issue tasks, pure NPC; the function of dry ginger water completely overlaps with that of Merlin. You brought Halle Berry and let her wear such conservative clothes? Tatum appeared so handsome, and when he turned around, he still fell back to the character of Magic Mike. It seems that the stripper has not been played enough; the only interesting whiskey was forcibly blackened, which echoed the tragic death of the meat grinder. At first glance, there are various styles and styles, but when you look closely, it is full of paper people.
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After Obama stepped down, Morgan Freeman and Jamie Foxx could no longer play the president of the United States. What a pity. On second thought, according to the grievances between Hollywood and Trump, the president of the United States in the movies in the next few years will often become a villain or a clown, which seems to be quite interesting.
It is uncertain whether the presidential character of this film was aimed at Emperor Chuan from the very beginning or just unintentionally. A great point of the film. Such a president must give me another dozen.
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