Since the debut of "Tang Detective 1" as a dark horse, "Tang Detective 2" has completely become a hot IP with the leading posture of the Spring Festival file, and it has not been on the Spring Festival file since then.
In fact, after "Tang Detective 2", the controversy has been endless, but everyone is too lazy to look for the review memory of that year.
In "Tang Detective 3", the controversy sounded again, or perhaps because everyone waited for another year, so the expectations and wait-and-see points of all the officials have increased, coupled with the impact of the film's large-scale publicity and pre-sale box office, which has caused "Tang Detective 3" to become a phenomenon-level movie.
Of course, the rise in the box office of Tang Tan 3 is also directly related to the current pricing of movie tickets.
So, how exactly is Detective Chinatown 3 for me? Let's tell you a joke here, the movie reviews are subjective personal opinions.
Or for the sake of that damn desire to survive, I changed the route of commenting on movies before and then suppressing, and first directly talk about the shortcomings of "Tang Detective 3".
In fact, in general, "Tang Detective 3" gave me the impression of disappointment more than expected, and there were even no surprises.
I talked about it in "Tang Detective 2" that the film has been on the verge of a disconnect between farce and main narrative, and it would be better if it could be collected in the form of comedy, but the good guy "Tang Detective 3" directly aggravated the farce effect, and various elements such as absurd and funny reasoning in the film were stewed in a pot.
In order to create hilarity and joy, directly gave up the minimum narrative structure and logic, but Chen Sicheng, you are not Kusturica nor Jiang Wen after all, you have to play an experimental break structure to jump out of the plot, and even let the characters and the audience hear the background music to play and break the four walls, which seems to make the original comedy detective type has been unstable "Tang Detective 3", closer to the critical point of collapse, or has collapsed.
I can feel that the film wants to imitate the earlier Hong Kong New Year films, engage in a combination of fists back and forth to the audience, but also in terms of genre, the film has tried the breakpoint narrative structure of the song and dance film genre, but the film changes the song and dance to playful and playful and change women's clothing, but this kind of experimental creation will always have to bear the cost of its failure, and the reputation and controversy of "Tang Detective 3" this time hopes to affect what to do after the Tang Detective series.
The next step involves minor spoilers, which can be considered by the little partner.
The plot of "Tang Detective 3" follows the end of the previous film, Tang Ren and Qin Feng were invited by Noda Hao to Tokyo, Japan to investigate a case, but during the period they suffered heavy blows and tests from the previous Q, and the two major events were intertwined to form this chaotic Tokyo tour, focusing on the Tokyo tour and the melee, followed by the Q secret test, and finally the painless secret room assassination case.
The film takes embellishment as the main theme, and all kinds of insignificant funny bridges as the staple food, while the trailer publicity plays with the original reasoning, and the suspense is heavy, so it is no wonder that the audience will turn their faces.
Originally, I thought that in order to go to Tokyo, Japan, where Benge reasoning originated, it should be enough for people to see the reversals, let people see the abyss of exclamation of human nature and explore the bottom again, and then dig up easter eggs on the whole network to over-interpret various brain holes, hehe, I think more.
If the first case talks about the two sides of good and evil and the intersection, and the second case talks about morality and justice, the speculation of human nature, then the case of the third part is just a case, and it is particularly simple, of course, I am not saying that I can directly guess who the murderer is, which means that the case is not good.
There are many classic reasoning films and television works, which point out who the murderer is from the beginning, but even so, we follow the detective to peel back the cocoon, find out the motives and modus operandi behind the real murderer, and it is also very enjoyable.
Of course, you may say that if you regard the Tang Detective series as a serious reasoning work, then you will lose, but even if it is a horizontal comparison of the previous 2 Tang Detective cases, the Tang Detective 3's Secret Room case is difficult to satisfy and be happy in terms of the amount of time, the analysis logic of the scene, and the richness of the case level, not to mention what bigger issues we can dig into in this case.
In fact, the topic of Japanese orphans, the discussion of egoism and self-sacrifice, etc., can be used to make a good article and sublimate the theme of the case, but unfortunately, the film does not even bother to do even the mention of dragonflies, and the detective process is interrupted and divided again and again, especially after Kobayashi sauce was kidnapped, I feel like a movie to watch a different scene, but the actors are the same wave.
However, frankly speaking, the narrative techniques and forms of such cases have always been the storytelling methods of the Tang Detective series, but the first two parts benefit from the real case within the case, which are interlaced and superimposed on each other, so that the main line of detectives can still closely attract the audience to look down.
And "Tang Detective 3" completely separates the chamber case and the Q test test, the film is afraid that the audience will continue to look at the case as a case within a case, and also directly from the mouth of the Japanese police detective with lines, the chamber case is just a coincidence. In this way, the two main story that do not intersect with each other, and constantly add various funny bridges in the middle, which completely turns the film into a stitching monster.
Since talking about the test test of Q, let's look at this line, I actually don't care too much about who Q is, because everything that can be analyzed on the Internet has been analyzed, and it is not necessary to make an unexpected and unreasonable reversal in order to reverse, so I pay more attention to how Q will appear, how it can appear that TA is the title of the first detective class, the atmosphere can not be done and so on.
outcome.... emmmm, how to say it, first of all, let's talk about Q is an organization of this setting, from the perspective of the play, to the individual as a single unit and the audience to establish interaction, is the most able to let the audience remember and empathize with the creative method, so many types of film and television works, whether to shape the positive or the villain, in the end are locked in the individual rather than the group.
I know that the film wants to establish a decent detective team headed by Qin Feng to start resisting the Q organization represented by the dark side, but you see that the decent faction is still represented by the individual, that is, Qin Feng, to put it bluntly, it is to represent the team with the setting of the individual role.
But the Q organization of the film seems to be just an organization, without any personal role to represent the number of people at the round table of Q, the Q organization, I personally think that it has dissipated the mystery and cohesion of the initial rendering of Q itself, I will say so, even if the Q members in the film slightly hinted that one of them was the boss of the organization, I felt that Q identity decryption would not let me see... Ah that's the feeling.
Then there is the way in which the Q identity truth appears, and the most common one is also chosen, which is said with lines, rather than exposed by events. To use an inappropriate analogy, Thanos, who has been brewing for a long time in Marvel, finally appeared in "Reunion 3", and the first scene directly broke Loki's neck, telling the audience that I played the real thing, and directly showed Thanos' personality and aura.
And Tang Detective 3 is the Japanese police detective who ran to Qin Feng and said: "What Q is an organization, Qin Feng, you pass the test, do you want to add a member." ”
I was thinking about how the Q organization was so confident that Qin Feng would definitely join them, although the topic set up by the Q organization was still the most chewy human nature experiment in the whole film, such as bread and three poor people, and saving friends in the sewers or killing humanity, but these could not become the key to Qin Feng's blackening, and the film did not show that Qin Feng had a hint of blackening, and then said that the final rescue of Kobayashi sauce was jumped by Murata Akira himself.
So to speak, Q is still not as smart as imagined, if Q can use this case, even if it is to play with the issue of human nature and animal nature again, qin feng is constantly pushed into the dark side, and finally let Qin Feng make a real choice between time and darkness, I think it is better than the Japanese police detective marketing style in the film to let Qin Feng run Q members.
Speaking of Japanese police detectives, he is a Q member directly weakens Q's charm, all the japanese police detectives in the front of the film, can not see that he has any keen detective ability, just a pure police tool man, as a result, he became a core member of Q, if the last Japanese police detective does not sit on the Q round table, he is only a believer in the Q organization with Akira Murata, it is still reasonable, at least to a certain extent to maintain Q's aura and charm.
Well, don't talk about Q, since the hi (farce) drama bridge section is the "main dish" of Tang Detective 3, so we can't bypass it, in Chen Sicheng's own words, comedy is actually difficult to shoot, because everyone has a strong difference in the problem of laughter.
Indeed, most of the laugh points placed in the film are difficult for me to enter the situation, the hospital scene is the most ingenious arrangement, from the cinema audience reaction, it should be the most laughter, but overall, the film is full of laughter is not a little too much and fart vulgar show, let me watch the film constantly in the brain out, how to come again?! I suspected the director was driving but I had no proof of the idea.
Putting aside these very subjective perceptions, in fact, these farces that are long enough to be anti-guest are extremely harmful to the main plot of the film, and the credibility of the characters and cases is greatly reduced.
For example, in the film, Q's big test of Qin Feng, the impression is five exams, killing the poor, cosplay digital memory, sumo duels, Shibuya throwing money, and finally whether to be a murderer to save friends.
Not to mention that the whole big test is not split and directly placed in the middle section, isolating the previous secret room detective to cause a sense of division, and in the middle of this has to play the 36D such a stem, suddenly breaking the seriousness of Q to establish a whole set of test questions.
After they rescued Kobayashi sauce and returned to the secret room case, the film abandoned the logic of detective reasoning, each character is like a sudden epiphany, Jack Jia suddenly retracted the image of a simple mind and developed limbs, ran back to China to find clues about Japanese orphans, and arranged for Tang Ren to return to China with the purpose of finding rescue soldiers, but these detective roles in the Tang Detective universe can not be described by paddling, it is simply a fight with the time of running subtitles, abrupt and forced.
I just want to ask, when Lin Mo's god-like dog nose function was slightly displayed, how did it become a pure driver.
Snow's debut atmosphere emotional performance that evil charm smile is done very well, but in fact, this scene is still quite isolated, always feel that there is something to cut off due to time considerations or other reasons, suddenly appear and then there is no following.
The most embarrassing thing is the appearance of the fivesome, but they have taken the awkward route in the series before.
In short, it is felt that the last is to establish the Tang Detective universe and the establishment of the Tang Detective universe, the function is too obvious, completely disregarding the narrative direction and the logic of the front and back, if you do not understand the Tang Detective universe or have not watched the first two and episodes, or watched the audience who do not remember, they all think that the back is to the artists to advertise to bring funds into the group, because the previous film advertising implants everyone has seen numb.
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Yo, after watching "Tang Detective 3", you can understand why it was released until the Spring Festival file, because this movie is a commercial entertainment film that caters to the Spring Festival file to nourish, and the film does everything possible to create joy.
And I have to say that Chen Sicheng, as a genre director, can have a fight with the olfactory sense of Lin Mo's case, and the overall "Tang Detective 3" is more tacky, and the tacky is just the choice of the most extensive age group of the audience in the New Year.
Of course, the tacky here is not a pejorative word but a neutral word, we don't need to interpret the meaning of this word too much, at least when I watch "Tang Detective 3", the whole process is still very happy, as long as I enter the half-neurotic serious context of the Tang Detective style, I can still feel the unique style that can only be found in the Tang Detective series, which may also be the existence that the Tang Detective series can stand out. People who like it look OK, and people who don't like it are one star service. So it's still that sentence, do you like this movie or not, and really score people.
As early as "Tang Detective 1", the narrative structure of the film is in the serious detective reasoning type, adding elements of absurd comedy, so that the fusion of two seemingly insignificant genres can indeed be refreshing, of course, to trace back to the source of 2009 Gehrig's "Sherlock Holmes" You can take a look, Nini played by Holmes and Judlow played by Watson, the role and narrative are with Gehrig's anger and black humor genes.
However, the Tang Detective series plays more violently and exaggeratedly, and has formed its own style from the first part, although many people do not like the crazy role of Wang Baoqiang playing Tang Ren, but the complementarity and contrast between him and Qin Feng may be the real impression of this pair of CP.
In terms of the volume and complexity of the story, I even think that "Tang Detective 3" is better than 2, which also benefits from the fact that "Tang Detective 3" is more well-funded, the scene scheduling is more grand, the internationally renowned actors are more numerous, and more importantly, the Tang Detective Universe has officially stood up in this part, paying attention to only standing up, but standing disappointing The subsequent development remains to be seen.
In the process of case investigation and analysis, "Tang Detective 3" is still full of imagination in the form of restoring the form of the case, and through three movies and episodes, it can also be seen that Chen Sicheng really loves detectives and reasoning.
In addition, the film's large-scale naked eye can see the burning of money abounds, the opening of the Tokyo airport confrontation drama is a long shot, the use of song and dance film scheduling camera language, all-round display of two groups of people and horses hilarious tearing, which actually set the tone for the overall ghost horse style of "Tang Detective 3", and then the film is in this form of expression.
Although this secret room case is too simple, the role of the parties in the case is more plump than the previous two parts, and the relationship between the parties and the murderer in the courtroom and the story behind it are quite lamentable.
Anyway, every movie today wants to make a movie universe, in addition to the bear haunting universe itself muffled to make a fortune, Chinese movies to do a series of movie universes, I think the Tang Detective universe has its important place.
Especially outside the movie netizens are talking about who Q is, the broadcast of the "Tang Detective" episode has widened the entire character relationship network, and it can be seen that the main creator has the intention to run a Chinatown detective world, but the current controversy and word of mouth are also doomed to the Tang Detective series in the future Road will be very difficult and need to think more.
Finally, I think that the reason why "Tang Detective 3" is quite controversial is that there are too many elements of the film, but each element can arouse the resonance or recognition of some people, or rejection and dislike, and every audience has its own reasons for full liking or dislike this movie, and these explanations are also correct from their personal positions, I don't know if this is the result that Chen Sicheng and Tang Detective's creators want to foresee.
You have to ask me after "Tang Detective 4 and 5" is not expected, well yes, the official has officially announced to Tang Detective 5, I say a word in my heart I will still look forward to, or will go to see, I am curious about how this Tang Detective universe develops, how big the ability of Q members is, How can Si Nuo and Qin Feng, Song Yi and Qin Feng compete.
Well, "Detective Chinatown 3" will talk about this first, if you have different views and opinions on the film, take you as the standard.