Fingers crossed, and the new director in May was almost lucky.
From "On the Cliff", which exploded in word of mouth and broke 1 billion at the box office, to "Your Wedding", which has a mixed reputation and undiminished popularity.
From "Super 9", which scolds and grins, but obediently buys tickets, to the unpopular movie "Looking for Han", which not many people know.
Although it can't be said that the gods fight, May is always a perfect ending.
Oh, wait.
In the List of May films, it seems that there is also a "fish that slipped through the net".
Why do I forget?
Probably because it's so bad I don't want to remember it—
Sunshine Robber
It is reasonable to say that "Sunshine Robber" in the May file a number of films, the sense of existence should be bursting.
First of all, the lineup will make you feel that the money is really worth it.
Director Li Yu, as one of the few female directors of banned films in China, debuted at the peak, and cooperated with the royal heroine Fan Bingbing in many classics.
"Apple", "Guanyin Mountain", "All Things Grow", "Secondary Exposure"...
Producer Fang Li is also Li Yu's old partner.
The director of the factory knew that he had bent down to kneel for the national theater manager because the film "Birds and Phoenix" was too small.
This kneeling, kneeling out of a hot search first, kneeling movie schedule soared, kneeling out of the box office of 86.9 million.
The cast is also all familiar faces:
Ma Li, Song Jia, Sha Yi, Yang Di, Zhang Haiyu, Zeng Zhiwei, Zhan Ruiwen.
Not to mention a lot of bulls, but it is absolutely affordable.
Secondly, the gimmick of the movie is also enough.
Li Yu's new film, just the preliminary preparation took five years, it is said that in order to form this film, Fang Li even put the house on the shelf.
Of course, what everyone is most concerned about is still --
Why is the heroine no longer Fan Bingbing?
For this question, Li Yu also publicly responded on Weibo: a lifelong good friend, not necessarily every one of them has to cooperate.
Although, but...
The reason for this is self-evident.
Forbidden film female director, this time without Fan Bingbing, in the end can not work?
The audience's reaction is the most authentic evidence -
Someone sits in a movie theater, embarrassed enough to start learning to be a strong country;
Someone worked overtime for three weeks in a row and wanted to relax in the cinema.
As a result, two hours of despair are worse than overtime.
In the words of a netizen, This time Li Yu is simply 900 million less souls.
The film is adapted from the novel of the same name by Japanese writer Kotaro Isaka, and the story is actually very simple -
Ma Li represents the decent, and Zeng Zhiwei represents the villain.
In a very romantic, fairytale city, the two sides launched a fierce struggle between good and evil.
Next, the director of the factory will carefully tell you about my viewing experience.
At first, a child's voice appears, and the milky voice tells a fairy tale, accompanied by hypnotic BGM.
Seeing this, my ass kind of wanted to lift up.
Isn't it a comedy?
Could it be that I went on the wrong set?
After a thousand thoughts flashed through his mind, he finally waited for Ma Li to appear.
Worthy of being the Queen of Comedy!
Still so tough, still so funny, not bad, the feeling of watching "Shy Iron Fist" is back! Grandpa Qinghui!
But wait, how this Song Jia has been crying and mourning, and shouting that her daughter is lost, asking everyone to help her find her daughter.
Isn't the story similar to "Waiting for Me" hosted by Teacher Ni Ping?
When she took out a picture, I reacted, oh, it turns out that her daughter is not really a daughter, but a tiger.
This tiger, who has been raised by her since birth, has now been taken away by Zeng Zhiwei, the richest man in the city.
He has been engaged in charity, but behind his back, he is doing the drug business.
The "pet-seeking office" run by Ma Li is tasked with helping her rescue the tiger.
The factory director was eager to have a remote control in his hand, and fiercely ravaged the fast-forward button.
What about laughter?
I'm going to wait for laughter, I'm going to laugh!
Soon, the group came to Zeng Zhiwei's den.
It's a wild castle similar to Charlie's Chocolate Factory, and the style of painting inside and out has a horror nursery rhyme feeling.
This paragraph still has no laughter, but has the flavor of the secret agent film.
Stepping on points, camouflage, probing, arming, stealing tigers, stealing gold and silver jewelry.
After a flurry of soldiers, chickens and dogs jumping, and after a family-like fight, they finally took the tiger out of the basement.
When the boat floats to the sea with the ladder, the film becomes a copycat version of "The Fantasy Drift of the Young Pi".
Four people, one tiger and one boat.
Just when the director of the factory was bored and wanted to urinate, the boat was suddenly stopped by three robbers wearing funny hoods.
Literary fantasy films have become black humor films.
But this is not a substantive story.
It was nothing more than that the robbers ended up taking away the boat and the tiger, and leaving them a speedboat with great kindness.
Ma Li and her party, who returned empty-handed, while cooking and replaying——
Since the plan was seamless, how did the robbers know? Why are they taking away tigers again?
Is there an inner ghost in the team?
Good fellow, who cares who is the ghost among you! Who cares if the tiger is alive or dead!
All I know is that I'm already sitting on a needle in a haystack!
……
When the factory director returned from the toilet, Yang Di also appeared.
It turned out that he was one of the members of the Trio of Robbers.
I thought the front was boring enough, but I didn't expect it to be getting more and more ridiculous below.
It turned out that Song Jia was the inner ghost;
It turns out that the leader of the hood robber trio is Song Jia's boyfriend;
It turns out that Tiger was previously sold by her boyfriend to the villain Zeng Zhiwei;
Soon, the villain who lost the tiger found the rebellious couple.
In order to punish them, poison them.
At the moment of the first attack, Ma Li once again appeared like a savior, and also played a very boring bet with the villain.
At this point, the story seems to be the real climax, but the uncle next to me has already fallen asleep...
Don't think the director is talking in the clouds, because even I don't know what I'm looking at.
Comedy? No laughs.
Literary films? It's quite noisy.
Fantasy films? But it's realistic.
Fairy tale films? Not suitable for children.
Lesbian films? You say it.
In short, I can't say it, I always feel that something is weird.
Presumably, it is to imitate the style of foreign films, such as Wes Anderson's retro tone and symmetrical aesthetics, but to make a four-different failure experiment.
It is said that this movie should have been released on New Year's Day last year.
But because in December, the industry's test screening evaluation was very poor, so I went back to re-editing and reshoot the content.
In the film, all kinds of lily scenes that rub the side balls are cut off at a glance, and the scenes that can't be cut off in the back will be so abrupt.
Suddenly it got better, suddenly it was ambiguous, and suddenly it began to talk.
The characters have no motivations at all, and their emotions are completely fragmented, completely incomprehensible, let alone resonant.
The gambling game is even more ridiculous.
The villain's IQ is like that of a pig who grew up eating pig feed.
Strongly suspect that Zeng Zhiwei, a strange character, was originally a tool person who let the decent brush copies, show intelligence, and show Wei Guangzheng.
In short, this film, which is not literary and artistic, commercial and non-commercial, does not look like Li Yu can make at all.
Rotten, really all-round rotten.
But out of the basic qualities of a professional film critic, out of respect for this movie ticket money, out of my strong desire to go crazy and complain.
I, insist on reading it!
But don't imitate me, sitting for two hours is a double insult to iq and physical health.
Here I still have to advise everyone -
This movie, do not watch, regret for a while, watch, regret for a lifetime!