"Turn" First of all, the introduction of the characters in the film follows the way of the first film, introducing themselves to each person in a short paragraph, so that the audience can follow them. In comparison, this introduction mode has become powerless. A big reason is that the audience has already understood the character characteristics of the protagonists from the previous work. To strengthen the impression of the characters on the audience to the original extent is like breaking through the bottleneck. In fact, he failed. Daniel showed his dissatisfaction with Rhodes leading the team, but he did not cause much disturbance in the later part of the movie, and belonged to the type of thunder and rain. The screenwriter wants to dig out the inner conflict between the teams from the characters, but does not provide a bridge to connect the inner changes. When the inner conflict does not give a worse development situation of the story, the suspense of the plot cannot be improved. The introduction to the new heroine also tends to be mediocre, using an unexplained magic, which seems enthusiastic, but fails to become the lubricant of the team afterwards, and the team position is not clear. Besides Jack and Merritt, they learn from each other's strengths. It is natural that they fail to learn. They only use it at the most critical moment. It feels like when their characteristics can all learn from each other, it blurs the light of their respective characters.
Even after the introduction of the characters, the plot in the early stage was very protracted. The characters use exaggerated dialogue to support the scene at the beginning, but in fact there is not much relevant content, clichés, just a few sentences are okay, and they feel boring after listening to too much. At the beginning of this work, the powerful feeling of the previous work for the sky eye organization was also reduced in this work. The sky eye has become a casual place, and the mysterious depiction of the sky eye in this work has been reduced a lot. This disguised answer to the question about the eye in the first part, there is a suspicion of perfunctory. In the film, because a certain amount of space was spent in the early stage, the real main line did not appear until the Four Horsemen were sniped, but the boring opening of the film has already wiped out the audience's energy.
As for the villain, it seems very reasonable to borrow the resentment from the first plot. What I have to say is that setting up a younger brother who is also an enemy and a friend chases the Four Horsemen to complete the task, which makes people look forward to whether the love-hate relationship with his younger brother will spark a new spark. Unexpectedly, in the later stages of the film, this relationship is also a mystery. The younger brother is not particularly strong than the elder brother, nor does it have other side stories, so it looks funny. Besides, Jay Chou's supporting role is actually optional. He is a translator, and in the end, he knows that he is not even a translator. When the Four Horsemen came to the magic shop, it was embarrassing for him to play an axe in front of everyone. And in the climax of the movie, there is no role for the people in the magic shop, even though they are also members of the Sky Eye organization.
The climax part is in line with the style of the first part. Everyone caused a magic boom in different places, but in fact, they pushed the villain to failure step by step in their actions. As a Hollywood blockbuster, the excitement of magic in this part is a feast for the eyes. Although there are some magic tricks that have been dealt with because they can't explain the principle, the audience is not too concerned about the mystery of magic. If you insist, I believe that the director can also Make up a reason.
One of the reasons why the second game has changed its taste is that it has lost the magic mystery of the previous work. This work does not follow the same principle in magic, making it scattered, and the magic looks just for coolness. And cool, exaggerated and pretentious, without giving people a feeling of unexpected and reasonable. Even though it is full of eyeball elements, apart from the support of the story, everything is like a body without a soul, like a doll. When a two-hour movie can be shrunk into an hour and can be enjoyed with relish, it should be modified from the story.
It may be said that the quality of this series of films is declining, or that it is seeking a new breakthrough.
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