Stills from the movie A Quiet Place 2
At the beginning of the month, more than a dozen domestic films in the May Day golden file, the level is very average, just passed has not been easy, and there are lower scores.
The audience was looking for an American blockbuster to change their minds, and the release of "Fast and Furious 9" did not satisfy everyone.
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In the future, the latest "007" and "Mission Impossible" are under pressure. However, after watching the trailer of "007", I feel that the level is still there.
In the disappointment of "Super 9", "A Quiet Place 2" quietly struck, suddenly announcing that it would be released this Friday. But its appearance can not make up for the regrets brought by "super 9".
Next, let's talk about a few movies I've seen recently (theater + non-theater).
01 "The Wrath of Man"
A lot of people went to see this movie with director Guy Ritchie and lead actor Jason Statham, and after watching it, they were a little disappointed.
Guy Ritchie still plays with his old structure, returning to events several times, piecing together the truth of the story from different angles and at different times.
With this technique, you can recognize that it is Guy Ritchie, that's all. This movie seems to be neat, but in fact, it is repeating the old way and handling it too hastily.
Directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Jason Statham
A story line that runs through the whole process is the father's revenge for his son. The last few shots, which hit the mob in four different positions (corresponding to where the son was shot), were brutal, but also a general setting.
Overall, this is not a typical action suspense film, nor can it be regarded as a literary film, and it is very embarrassing to be in the middle state.
For these "old directors", they should belong to the category of universal drama, such as the kind of movies we once called feature films.
In one episode, I saw Scott Eastwood's name at the beginning of the film, which I didn't recognize much in the film, and he played the villain who was killed by Jason.
In the end, it was only by searching the face of his father, Clint Eastwood, that he recognized his son's appearance (son on the left, father on the right).
02 Fast & Furious 9
From the rating of 5.5, you can see how disappointed the audience is with "Super 9".
This time there is a magnetic setting, and the fun of the story is also this, not only to suck away all kinds of portable weapons, but also to suck the car around, which is also a key move in the final battle.
The drama of brotherhood is generally arranged, that is, it buries a misunderstanding, so that the brothers can ease up and be decent.
Then he used the trick of reviving the dead, so that "Han" returned to the team, played a play of warm love cards, and the drama of three women doing tough guys in Tokyo was quite cool, but it was also a common trick.
In addition, the matter of flying into space is somewhat ridiculous, but the entertainment film is just to exaggerate and make everyone happy.
The Easter egg at the end saw Jason Statham, and after watching the above "Wrath of Man", it was not addictive, because it was not an action blockbuster road, or I hoped that he could show his fists in the "Rapid" series.
This kind of movie, that is, you know that there are many routines, but you just want to see how to play this time, the more you watch, the more you may be disappointed, the skills are almost played, which is also a great challenge for the creator.
After all, this series has started from the fifth part, and many of the story settings and big scenes have been played cool enough that it is no longer as simple as the scene of crashes and car accidents.
For example, driving a car from the air to hit three buildings in a row, pulling the bank's treasury all over the street, fighting tanks and planes, dodging sky-eye tracking and missile attacks.
There are also massive control chips played by Theron that make cars fly out of the garage and crash, so that countless car wreckage piles up on the ground...
Having seen the attention of these contents, it is impossible to be satisfied with "Super 9".
However, if you want to watch a cooling, energetic movie on the weekend, "Super 9" is still the first choice. Because it's at least a lot faster than the next one to talk about, A Quiet Place 2.
03 "A Quiet Place" 2
I went to Lumiere Studios to see the IMAX version, and the sound effects were good, but this movie was not a surprise, it was a shock.
The inability to make a sound accentuates the intensity of the sound and brings a sudden fright in the silence, which is the most important technique of the film, which is often referred to as "jump scare".
Some shots, which do catch people off guard, translate into a jump, which is very graphic. Because there was a female spectator next to me who was so frightened that her legs went forward, she herself smiled embarrassedly.
The pace is very slow, which is not a problem, but it is awkward to put it on a genre film that focuses on horror and thriller, which is the same situation as the "Wrath of Man" just mentioned.
On the other hand, this is also the need of the plot, afraid that the monster will hear the movement and walk slowly.
And the most embarrassing thing is the end, your emotions have just been stimulated and mobilized, it suddenly stops, and the viewing experience drops a lot.
The only commendable thing about the whole film is the structure, at the same time, different scenes switch back and forth, that is, the usual cross-cutting, showing the reaction of several protagonists after being separated and encountering monsters, increasing tension.
It is under such a plot design that at the end, while the girl kills the monster, the younger brother also bravely shoots and kills the monster on the other side.
They used the same method as the first one, first repelling the monster with noise, and then attacking.
The grasp of this emotion and the language of the camera are commendable, but it is still too hasty to end suddenly at the emotional climax.
It is no problem to play the family card, but it is not "Li Huanying" after all.
04 Murder Without Charge: The Corinne Case
This film has been seen by many people before it goes to theaters. The story is based on the novel The Corinne Case, which is based on true events.
The story involves an important bill that, in reality, allows many war criminals to escape crimes. After the novel was published, the German Minister of Justice announced the establishment of a historical commission of inquiry. The novel successfully influenced legislation.
With such a stable story blueprint as the foundation, the film is also well done, as a court scene occupies the main plot of the movie, did not fall into the cliché, is the recent these theatrical films, worth giving a high score.
The protagonist Caspar's dilemma is that he has to defend the murderer Corinne, who murdered Mr. Meyer, who once treated him like a family member.
The film initially gives the impression that Corinne is a cold-faced killer, who has remained silent in the face of a lawyer and does not say a word.
The young lawyer Casper's attitude of trying to find the truth and justice inspired Corinne to make the final truth public.
Caspar's benefactor, Meyer, was a German SS soldier in his youth and personally shot and killed his father in front of Corinne. That's why Corinne came to avenge his father.
"Acquittal Murder" is the name added when he goes to the Upper House, because Meyer escaped the crime that year. Corinne was unable to get a fair answer through the normal legal process and finally had to choose to settle it himself.
05 Legion of the Living Dead
Let's talk about two non-theatrical films.
Zombie movies are probably hard to break through. Legion of the Living Dead currently has a lower score than Super 9.
On the cool feeling, it is not worse than "Super 9", but the various classics of similar films are endless, "Shaun of the Zombies", "Busan Line", plus the popular drama "The Walking Dead", the gameplay is a lot.
The previous two "Zombie Paradise" are also struggling to get a high score, but this theme is really limited, that is, six or seven points, which is reasonable.
The structure of "Army of the Living Dead" is very simple, it is a typical cool film, that is, a bunch of guys who are not afraid of death want to go to the zombie position to grab money.
If you want to take money to fight zombies, if you want to keep high-IQ zombies away from you and turn a blind eye to you, first find someone to sacrifice.
That's why he called the nasty policeman Potter, whose use was to sacrifice zombies.
From this point of view, the thing that moves a little bit in this story is in the high-IQ zombie.
But this setting is not to the point of being commendable, and the purpose of this type of zombie is to increase the difficulty of the task.
The twist in the middle is also related to this setting, where greedy people cut off the heads of high-IQ female zombies, treating this as a wealth more important than money, because zombie heads can also bite people, so that they can create their own zombie legions.
Naturally, this incident angered the zombie leaders, the sacrifice was also in vain, and the zombies all went out, causing the gang to lose money and die here.
06 "Little People"
I wanted to focus on this movie, so I put it at the end.
If there is no Rao Xiaozhi's film of the same name, the title of Nobody is actually translated as "The Unknown Generation".
However, this "unknown generation" really has to be put in quotation marks, because the protagonist is not a cowardly person who has been stimulated to his potential.
The protagonist, Hatch, is a deeply hidden veteran, so he is not stimulated by potential, but the real ability to suppress for many years is not used, and it will rust.
The impact of this story is as follows.
The first is the contrast between the state of the characters before and after, and at the beginning, repeating the same thing every day shows the boredom of life, including the state of sleeping with a pillow when sleeping.
One of the events that inspired Hatch was that one night, someone came to the house to rob, one of them was a woman, and Hatch saw that the gun in her hand did not have bullets, which is why he put down the baseball club that had been swung.
While his son bravely strangled the man in black, Hatch flinched in front of a woman. The two robbers came in through a pizza box against the garage door.
The reaction of the people around him was to hope that he would be able to give the gangsters a hard blow.
Police said if it was his family, he would swing that baseball club.
Neighbors said they hoped the robbers would come to rob his home so he could move his muscles.
The son said he would interview his father, who had joined the army, but Hatch said he was just an "auditor" at the time.
The more these contents reflect Hatch's incompetence and forbearance, the more powerful the contrast and contrast are made for the subsequent explosion explosion, which makes people more relieved to see.
The second is the continuous escalation of the action scenes after the outbreak.
Hatch finds the two burglary couples through tattoos, but when he sees the swaddled child, his anger is relieved.
It was like seeing the mother of the child that day without a gun that had fired a bullet, and he knew that such a real poor man was not the one he was dealing with.
So, on the way home, the villains shouldn't have taken the bus. Of course, Hutch in anger also fought too hard, the first round he was thrown out of the window, the second round, he returned to the car and slammed, which also led to his big deal.
The villain appears as a rather terrifying gang leader, a Russian gangster who has his brother among those who have been seriously injured on the bus.
In the second action scene, the scene is even bigger, the room becomes a battlefield, Hatch tells his wife and two children to hide in the basement, and tells his wife not to call the police.
In this melee, Hatch continued to fight against the crowd, because the other side wanted to catch the live, so Hatch was knocked unconscious and placed in the trunk of the car, which was a serious mistake made by the gang.
Hatch, who woke up, managed to escape. But he knew that this was not the end of it, and before the Russian big man could come to him, he would burn down the other side's most important industrial base.
Then lure the bastards to the factory where they had set their own traps, ready to close the door to beat the dogs or catch turtles in the urn.
At this time, the black comrades who always heard the voice through the radio appeared, plus Hatch's father, three men with military backgrounds who killed here.
Third, it's a story with a typical playwriting pattern.
But as said at the beginning, he is not simply a counterattack of a small person, but a story of the return of the former tough guy to the stage.
It is to express the story of how a person respects his heart and no longer lives under the mask weakly, but lives back to himself.
In terms of Hatch's hidden identity, he may have something difficult to hide, such as the tattoo on his left wrist, which was recognized by an old man in the tattoo shop and frightened into hiding.
That was a strong testament to his role as a soldier.
There is also the surprised expression of the two policemen at the end of the phone at the same time, and when Hatch says nobody, it may be the code name of a big person.
Finally, the actor who played Hatch's father was the one who played Taber in "Flying Over the Madhouse.".
And the Back to the Future series, Dr. Brown, who resembles Einstein's explosive head.
Both dad and son are actors with humorous cells, which adds a lot to this cool movie.
Speaking of which, I hope there will be a good movie released next month.