"Manslaughter 2" was officially released, and the box office performance was good, but the Douban score was somewhat "reluctant".
The opening score was 6.2, which quickly dropped to 6 points.
Tough to maintain on the passing line.
In the first part of "Manslaughter", more than 760,000 people scored a high score of 7.5.
Comparing the two, from 7.5 in the first part to 6.0 in the second part, the difference is obvious.
What exactly is missing in the second part?
(The picture above is the promotional scene of "Manslaughter 2" starring Wen Yongshan, Li Zhiting and other films)
The same reversal suspense, the same family theme, the same rich and poor confrontation.
The missing parts may be these points.
The first point is the density of intrinsic reasoning.
The male protagonist played by Xiao Yang in the first part of "Manslaughter", in order to fight against the powerful female bureau chief (Chen Chong's role) with heart and means, laid down a super big situation.
A series of initiatives were taken to make everyone inadvertently use it for him.
The intrinsic reasoning part of the story, the editing is exquisite, the rhythm is high-energy, and it is quite good-looking.
There are still a lot of suspense factors in "Manslaughter 2", and there are reasoning reversals, but they seem to be deliberate and blunt in comparison.
Second, the performance space of actresses is different.
The role played by Chen Chong in the first part is quite complicated.
From the point of view of justice, she is the wrong party.
His son had committed a crime and deserved to be severely punished.
She disregarded her duties and was bent on avenging her son, once showing an "evil" face.
On the other hand, no matter how wrong and out of line she is, she is just a poor heartbroken mother who has lost her son.
This unpopular character has a lot of room to play between good and evil, in despair.
Chen Chong's acting skills are superb, and his performance is very impressive.
However, there is no female character in the second part that can be compared with it, and the complexity and visibleness of the characters have naturally lost a large piece.
The heroine of the second part, Wen Yongshan, plays the mother of a desperate child.
From the perspective of script setting, it is closer to the role played by Tan Zhuo in the first part, sad and powerless.
However, Wen Yongshan's performance is obviously not comparable to Tan Zhuo's, and it is much more deliberate in comparison.
Third, the expected value is different.
Relatively speaking, the audience is unconsciously "more strict" about the sequel.
Even if the level of the second part is exactly the same as that of the first part, the audience feedback may be low, because "I have already seen this content."
The same move, again, may not be able to work.
In particular, the reasoning of benguet stories relies heavily on freshness.
Although the characters are different and the reversal patterns are different, the vague sense of similarity may weaken the audience's recognition.
Of course, that doesn't mean Manslaughter 2 is ugly.
On the contrary, from the perspective of genre films, "Manslaughter 2" is a qualified work.
Although it is a remake, the second half of the story has changed a lot, similar to "the second half is pure original".
The impact of family affection in the story is very strong, and the performance of Xiao Yang, Ren Dahua, Song Yang and other actors is also very remarkable.
The most precious part is the consistent "contrasting context of the strong and weak rich and poor ghost swords" in the film, which is a very rare shining point.
I look forward to a better box office performance of "Manslaughter 2", and I also look forward to the third part of this series that can be released.