Shadow Beacon Weekend Edition - Issue 125: Review of Brave Games: Showdown jungle
Brave Games: Battle jungle scores 6.3
1. Tyra: 8 points
Former editor-in-chief of Time.com, film practitioner, partner of "Have Me Media".
Finally saw a Hollywood commercial blockbuster that can make people shine, although it is not perfect, but there is no lack of highlights. The laugh points mainly come from the sense of violation brought by the real person entering the game character, Jack Black and the black brother's acting skills are quite online, the jokes are continuous, and the progress of the game is also reasonable. After watching N bland works with lack of creativity and imagination in a row, the appearance of this film is really surprising.
2. Captain Van Cliff: 8 points
Freelance writer.
Sincere popcorn family fun. As an old video game fan, the setting is definitely a plus, such as identity conversion, who does not want to be different in the game! Yes, it's you, don't think we don't know that you used to be white-haired and faceless. The traces of the old captain's previous life are enough to poke people and deserve a second brush!
3. Lucifer: 7 points
Doctor of Arts.
In the 95 version of "Brave Game", "Yumanji" is a flying chess piece, and in the 17th version, it evolved into FC, and the appropriate evolution reflects the retro feeling. Three lives through, NPCs repeating a line, falling from the sky when resurrected... These grips are interesting enough and accurate enough to be the most natural way to play the old game sentiment cards since Invincible Destruction King. Although unlike Aeroplane, video games add fictitiousness to characters, the essence of the game remains the same: it is still teamwork, collaboration, and trust. If Yumanji can still be reborn in the sequel, he should transform into a dusty Sega Saturn machine to pick me up in the imperial drama.
4. KazeMa Hayabusa: 7 points
Film critic.
Saying that it is a remake, I think it is better than the original. The original version is still the era of board games, every move is a surprise, over-reliance on special effects, to be honest, a bit of aesthetic fatigue. This film uses the gap between the two identities of adults and teenagers to make a fuss, which has both the absurdity of the game and the twists and turns of growth, and is full of jokes, which is one of the smarter popcorn movies that please teenagers. Unfortunately, the action scenes are slightly tedious, without difficulty or freshness. NPCs, Three Lives... The game's various tricks are full of fun, and the addition of blood slots will be more fun.
5. Electronic Knight: 7 points
Film critics, in "Science Fiction World" opened a science fiction movie column.
Very entertaining! It was a great pleasure to watch. There is an eighty-nines action-adventure movie style, and the jokes are very solid and not blunt. Especially in character building, it is rare that the four protagonists have distinct personalities and everyone has a play! Jack Black is too funny, and the Nebula Girl/Doctor Who female companion is too beautiful and sexy! It is basically a low-end version of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
6. Qin Wan: 7 points
Phoenix Film Curator.
Compared with the original "indoor zoo", the new version moves the length of the game to the jungle to complete, and through role playing to show the contrast and growth of the characters, it satisfies both the comedic spoof element and the large-scale scene setting element. In terms of world view and ending setting, the theme of "people have to say goodbye to their past selves" is even more emotional.
7. Lu Zhiyu: 6 points
The operator of the WeChat public account "Watching Movies and Seeing Death", co-founder of "Whale Screening Room", author of the film essay collection "Joker, Circus Tears".
1. Adventure games that are both mechanical and routine, in short, are completely different from the "Brave's Game" in our childhood memories; perhaps, it is really because Robin Williams is not there. 2. The tongue kiss between Dwayne Johnson and his mother-in-law was embarrassing to me.
8. Car Master: 6 points
Film writer.
A modified version of Goldfinger from Breakfast Club. It is quite interesting to play a live-action large-scale eight-bit game, and once you change gears to the growth mode of youth films, you are dull, and the blind pursuit of the character arc is often the culprit that stifles the vitality of Hollywood commercial films.
9. Demon Demon: 6 points
Film culture worker.
Under the setting of "teenagers have many problems, all rely on the game to save", the surprise of the game paragraph is not too much, if all the paragraphs that appear separately from the villain can be deleted, it may make the gamer's viewpoint narrative more pure.
10. Peach Forest: 6 points
Film and television self-media person, Operator of WeChat public account and Weibo "Tao Tao Movie", initiator of offline activity "Tao Tao Movie Group".
A qualified entertainment film. The highlight is more intentional retro, restoring the film to a very 90s action-adventure film, both the character setting and the plot are retro, the main sense of nostalgia.
11. Yin Xiang: 5 points
Film scholar.
The main advantage is that the play takes the "multi-body characters" and "multi-character body" to find good quality jokes, as well as the imitation of the video game narrative, style and visual presentation itself; in addition, it is all old routines, as well as inexplicable villains; the visual is also very stale, probably worth watching only to enter the game, obviously from the impact of VR (how good it is to have a few such places in the whole film). It's a shame that a project that can develop postplots or life conditions (the idea of time in that place in the penultimate scene is interesting) has been made so mediocre.
12. Shameless Not a Jerk: 5 points
Veteran media personality.
It's a super popcorn movie that blends elements of action-adventure comedy, fantasy break-through games and more. Overall, compared to the Brave Man's Game in '95, it's more entertaining and popcorn. The setting of the four high school students can also make this film carry a certain role of "self-worth" and "teamwork".
13. Big Strange: 4 points
Veteran film researcher and freelance writer.
In the early years, when I watched the first episode, I didn't like it too much, only in the concept. The first episode, for the sake of the times, let the game world thing come out. The sequel is about letting the characters into that world. But the script is boring and will only create some low-level jokes and cheap CGI. Robin Williams said in the first episode that "I've seen what you saw in nightmares", and the sequel should have a black fairy tale-like thriller element, but the whole film makes the audience follow the characters to a young age, which is really contrary to the spirit of the first episode. In my eyes, it is a dog-tailed sable, and the rock is considered to be on the "jungle" bar.