"Special Forces" is a set of fateful series of movies, so far the three live-action works are not coherent, each attack is like a "re-correction" reboot, Cass every time he shoots a blood change, but still always repeatedly take off failure, can not become a climate.
"The Rise of the Cobra" excessively restores the cartoon style, and the box office can only barely maintain the balance of payments; "Total Strike Back" is too hard to pursue the power of realism, but it is disgusted by the audience, the box office is equally flat, and the reputation is doubly bad.
The "Snake's Eye Origin" that started from the prequel is more unlucky, the film itself is poor enough, but it also encounters the ravages of the new crown epidemic, making the IP that was already difficult to sell money more miserable.
I've never been a big fan of Rise of the Cobra, both in terms of visual style and plot logic, all of which are childish to the extreme, like a script made up by a child when playing with toys (although in some ways, this movie was born this way), a bad TV pilot episode, and a smorgasbord B-movie with over-the-top elements.
"Total Strike Back", which was met with a lot of noise, I personally liked it, but this like was the kind of like that understood that it was a bad film, but I could find its merits, not the kind of like that completely denied that it was a bad film.
The plot of "Total Strike Back" is more loose, and the modern weapon that has been downgraded from the sci-fi level equipment of the previous episode to "intimate" is indeed a serious incoherent gap, but its attempt at realism is not only a drawback, but also reduces the degree of exaggeration to make the movie look like a movie, rather than a large live-action animation that insults the audience's intelligence and taste.
After two consecutive "team battles" were lost, Snakeeye Origins followed bumblebee's approach, attempting to reboot the entire series through a prequel-played supporting role.
The Transformers and Special Forces candidacy series were both produced by executive producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, but this reboot strategy was successful in the Bumblebee experiment and successfully contributed to the start of "Transformers: Rise of the Mighty Warriors", but it was used in "Snake's Eye Origins" and failed.
Embarrassingly, "Snake's Eye Origin" is not willing to be just an action movie, and this time it finally wants to take the character more seriously, but in the end it still smashes the pot.
Essentially, Snake's Eye Origins is a genre synthesis of Avatar and Breaking Point, which both depicts outsiders entering a foreign culture, understanding the value of local culture, and finally becoming a part of them, helping them resist external troubles, while interspersing the setting of the undercover movie, the initial relationship between Snake's Eye and the White Ghost.
That is, Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swazi in "Breaking Point", or Van Diesel and Paul Walker in "Fast and Furious", one is a big brother in a foreign culture, and the other is a new member who is valued by Big Brother. From a structural point of view, "Snake's Eye Origin" does choose a set of formulas with many successful precedents to learn from, but the difference in operation with its predecessors makes "Snake's Eye Origin" doomed to annoy a vote of audience.
Generally speaking, the protagonist in charge of undercover is serving the decent party in the story, and the organization he goes undercover into is a group with criminal activities, but in "Snake's Eye Origin", on the contrary, it is the villain who sends the protagonist to go undercover, and the protagonist goes undercover not only to the decent, but also to the group dedicated to defending the country and saving the world.
Of course, the situation encountered by Jack in "Avatar" is also very similar to snake's eye, jack went undercover into the Na'vi tribe, is the decent in the story, Jack gradually became a member of the tribe, but hid his true purpose.
But the point is, Jack didn't end up forcing Netini into a demon who had been banished by his own tribe and against his own tribe, but Snake's Eye did.
Although we understand that Snake Eye's choice to go undercover stems from emotional selfishness and from the desire to kill his father's enemy, although he has decided to atone for his sins afterwards, this is still not enough to clear his faults, and he clearly knows that it is not right to sacrifice others in order to satisfy his desire for revenge, but he still forces the most moralistic and audience-pleasing characters in the whole film to Liangshan and fall into the magic path, which is not something that can be easily compensated.
Moreover, in order to leave a way back for the sequel, the movie has not really made up for the snake's eye completely. The white ghost also praised that he also saw "honor" in the eyes of the snake's eye, and the white ghost at that time must have looked away.
After watching the movie, you will not only sympathize with the white ghost, but also have a high chance that you will not be able to forgive the snake's eye behavior like the white ghost.
The white ghost is a completely good person, who has vowed to die loyalty to the family, loyalty to the country, loyalty to friends, and loyalty to benefactors since childhood, but only because he is too loyal and trusts others too much, he is betrayed by his friends and punished by the family.
The latter, in particular, is arguably the last straw, as the White Ghost has since been revoked by his elders for his powerful but forbidden heirlooms only because he had to hunt down the villain.
The White Ghost never wanted to devour the heirloom alone, nor was he corrupted by that force, he used it only to protect his home, and then his grandmother, in order to abide by the discipline of "the greater the power, the less it can be abused", so he took his grandson out of the house. I said this grandmother, your grandson is really unavoidable, has not abused ah, can not be accommodating?
As for the "skin color change" that many "Special Forces" fans care about, I am not sure where the necessity of changing snake's eye from white to mixed yellow race is, in my opinion, the crew did not use the racial change to do a different adaptation.
This version of Snake Eye is actually no different from other white male protagonists in Hollywood action movies, always going to fight an underground boxing to highlight that he is banishing himself, and then seeing a beautiful heroine who does not want to take care of him will intentionally or unintentionally flirt.
Some people may retort: Who said that to find an Asian face, it is necessary to highlight the setting of Asian ancestry in the human setting? Will this instead reinforce stereotypes? It is also true to say so, but now this way of presenting, it is not more interesting, just find a mixed-race child to play the role that white people have often played in the past, and the snake eye in the original public impression is not quite a white character with this personality, so since it is necessary to change it, why not change it thoroughly and more interestingly?
I don't have a problem with the other newcomers to the Special Forces classic team, and I know that many viewers are still missing Rachel Nichols and Sienna Miller (but I really don't know what to miss), and are reluctant to accept the new version of Scarlett and Baroness.
But to be honest, Samara Viven and Ursula Corbello are both eligible castings, as long as they are given a reasonable stage to perform, but unfortunately, due to the small number of scenes, the two can not have the opportunity to impress the audience for the time being.
Samara Viven looks like a very exemplary female agent, and it is as if she is forced to take this role by an agent who hopes that her artist can play a hero blockbuster, the whole person is weak; Ursula, who has appeared longer, is more eye-catching, Hollywood is now lacking a charming beauty like her, revealing evil spirit, before we had Sharon Stone, there was Angelina Jolie, but now there are not many representative actors of this type, and Ursula has the conditions to become their successor.
I don't hate Snake's Eye Origins, which is a very ordinary action entertainment movie in terms of overall production level, but because it is another wrestling after the "Special Forces" series of wrestling twice, and because the drama is full of plot design that makes the audience wonder how to feel, it is even more mixed.
As early as before the release of "Snake's Eye Origin", there were already sequels and spin-offs in advance, but "Snake Eye Origin" is now once again unfavorable, and it is really curious whether the prospect of making three collapsed "Special Forces" series and its future adaptations will be cut off.