How hardcore are men?
Inside the hammam.
He fell from the sky in his pants.
How sharp are women?
Smoke is swirling.
She walked out naked.
The gun in his hand is more eye-catching than the carcass that is still dripping.
How much scuffle is the situation?
In the distance, it was the bodies of hundreds of people with white flowers—the sharpness of knives, axes, and blades cutting flesh.
"Hundred Men vs Bathhouse Edition".
Blood, brain plasma, nudity, violence, splattering...
This painting style... Anti-War God Tablets?
No.
This is a new korean work, "anti-epidemic god film".
"Lifesaving Carter"
Carter
Director Jung Byung-gil, representative works "I Am a Murderer" and "Evil Girl", one of the new generation of Korean directors.
Starring Zhou Yuan.
Not the flower man on the left, but the new version of the tough guy on the right.
At first glance, it actually looks a bit like Wu Yanzu.
Douban reviews are bipolar.
From "cool" to "bad", not just the gap from five stars to one star.
There's even a reverse high score —
What story is told?
To Sir said.
It's good and bad, almost one and the same.
Nudity, special effects, violence, speeding cars, gore, anti-government, viruses, censorship edges... There are all the eye-catching elements.
But here's the problem.
Scale this card, plus any element can become the king of the explosion.
However, it must not be singled out.
01
Drip - character incubation success.
Drops - The game load is complete.
Carter (Zhou Yuan) wakes up in a large bed.
He does not know anything about his origins and professional age; All over his body, there was only a cross scar on the back of his head and a pair of thongs.
And what is more worrying than the "white paper" persona is the immediate crisis -
Enemy.
There are still 30 seconds to reach the battlefield.
Before fighting monsters, first find out the world view of the game.
The completion of the sandbox is roughly a certain overhead period in the future.
Global pandemic 2.0, which is incomparably similar to reality.
When humans encounter this nameless and fierce virus, they will have abnormal physical fitness and violent tendencies after the onset of the disease, like zombies, and the mortality rate is as high as 1/5.
A little familiar?
Cough, isn't it "Busan Trip" + "Crying Sorrow" + "Flu".
△ Zombie army
There are also two initial settings.
1. The world's only cure case has emerged in South Korea.
The daughter of a medical doctor, Aka "human flesh vaccine" - but the little girl's whereabouts are currently unknown.
Dr. Cheng successfully cured her daughter Zheng Hena, who was infected with the virus
Become the focus of global academia
2. Carter's original skills.
Although there is no long object, it is difficult for the big male protagonist to say that there is no goldfinger bonus.
In case of complete loss of memory.
It also does not affect his ability to speak fluent English and fighting skills.
I can't even remember my name~
OK, the worldview review is complete.
The countdown turns on... 5，4，3，2，1。
Carter woke up from his bed with a dozen armed agents standing in front of him.
Not only that.
There was also a strange female voice in her head who constantly urged herself and gave orders.
Want to live?
Gotta listen to her.
You have a device implanted in your ear
Only you can hear my voice
Jump out of the window and jump to the building opposite
Old friends who have played domestic page games know that it is not difficult to start a knife and equipment by fighting.
Carter is no exception.
The female voice told him that as a senior Agent of North Korea, your mission is to find the missing little girl and bring her back to the Republic.
Identity information entry ✔ Main quest received ✔
As for logistical support...
It doesn't matter if no one gives kryptonite.
Make a meat shield to carry the first wave of output on the line.
So after Carter was unharmed and the enemy was either dead or crippled, our big man came to the second mission trigger point - that is, the first bathhouse.
Plasma effects too fake? Never mind.
A hundred painting styles are paid content.
After that, the plot is also very similar.
After two wheel wars, the male protagonist infiltrates the open world and successfully obtains new skins and new equipment.
From the market to the building, from the ground to the mid-air.
On the way to save Zelda's little girl, it can be said that the knife and gun are as strong as a stick.
Fight when you don't agree.
Open up anytime, anywhere.
The degree of gold finger is comparable to that of the Wolf Of North Korea.
Finally the plot hit a third (yes, there is basically no plot except for the action scenes).
The killer was a little cold.
Lori should also be on it.
The little girl appeared, joined the red square, and merged into the main line.
("Lonely Agent": I know this trick.) ）
Do you think the old bridge section between Lyon and Matilda is next?
No, no, no.
Because saving Lori is only the main quest.
Behind this thin action scene, the director also bothered to create many side plots:
For example, political parties fight each other, zombie army raids, ghosts in the army, heroes save the United States... There are about ten contradictory points laid out before and after.
But here's the problem.
Without seeing the parallel cooperation of logic, story and special effects, all chapters have become wasteful efforts.
"Lifesaver Carter" is fake.
Ugly Sir wanted to call for help, it was true.
02
If Sir were to summarize the whole movie briefly, it would probably be the following expression -
Only special effects, not agents;
Only see plasma, not "flesh and blood";
The two-hour film looks like a live broadcast of an uninterpreted game by the director.
Although it is not without advantages - such as the camera angle is bold, the interaction is silky.
At one moment in the bathhouse scene, the blood melting into the water gave the camera a sense of immersion in the bright red.
But whether it's from the interaction of the characters or the storyline of Carter himself, it is almost all biased.
The reversal came inexplicably.
Even a side plot lays the groundwork and then does not respond.
And the parts involved in the plot are all forced forward by the inexplicable dragon set characters.
- NPCs than NPCs.
- What is the situation now?
- Just now seems to have encountered serious turbulence
Causing a power outage on board...
△ The strange gatherings that appeared in the first half and the CIA are no longer followed
Someone has to ask.
As an action movie, isn't the most important thing about the action scenes?
This is also the biggest point of controversy in the whole movie.
The five stars and one stars on Douban are mostly dedicated to the action scenes that occupy 90% of the time of the whole film.
Loved it.
There are many tricks and ideas;
Derogatory.
Spit on its clumsy cheap, too much like a net big.
Director Zheng Bingji once said.
What he wanted to create was a film that was "impossible, purely realistic action scenes, without a trace of computer special effects."
- The result is the opposite.
The action scenes in the film are all full of CG sense and anti-human action design, which are contrary to the director's philosophy, and the contrast is so great that it even seems to deliberately avoid the correct answer.
Seeing Carter flipping heels on planes, picking wheels to play with drifts, shooting 100 meters in the air, fighting the CIA bare-chested — Sir had only one feeling.
Well.
Newton's coffin board was almost overwhelmed.
Other than that, as Sir once said, logic.
Whether it is the nearly naked men and women in the bathhouse, or the political metaphors involving the three countries of The Dprang, South Korea and the United States, and the fight scenes with too much plasma to be paid.
Not just for the sake of scale, but for the sake of action.
One of the most impressive bridges is.
To highlight how much Carter himself can fight, a fight scene in a truck is extremely fancy.
First the driver was killed first, then the pursuing soldier was double killed, followed by countless cannon fodder from the former servants...
Wait a minute.
The driver is dead? So who's driving?
See for yourself —)
△ Little Lori: I didn't expect it, I am a child prodigy
There is more to it than that.
In addition to special effects and villains, some of WTF's American heroism is also correct.
For example, surgery in the wild, bombs transferred from cochlea to teeth, Saiyans who ignore gravity, headshots with 180 degree turns, female agents all over the world have a little relationship with me...
Action movies? （Ⅹ）
Male Frequency Cool Text? （✔）
Until the end.
The biggest suspense and the biggest failure of the whole film lies in Carter's identity and memory.
From the beginning of the North Korean agent, to the late addition of the former FBI agent identity, and then to the later extreme reversal.
The villain is a word.
Directly break the audience's cognition.
Is it really your memory?
Who the hell is Carter? Is the wife his? Is the child his? Which identity is the real him?
But until the last second.
The director also did not give a clear definition.
So the whole movie ended in the suspense that the child only called out his mother, but stared at Carter without saying a word.
△ Carter: So I go?
Presumably the director doesn't need Carter to be "who" either.
After all, there is no Carter, there are other code names, other identities, other positioning.
He wanted it.
It's just a vector without a name in the hodgepodge of cool elements.
03
Underneath this Bad Douban 5.4 film, the Douban comment area is full of resentment against it.
It's not that I don't accept action movies with a strong personal style, it's not that I don't like to see handsome guys naked, it's not that I don't like the special effects and sea, land and air shots that don't like tricks.
Rather, there is a kind of movie that will be curious before watching, and will cherish life more after watching.
During the viewing, Sir kept jumping.
From the first-person perspective of "Hardcore Henry" to the bathroom killing of "Kill Bill" and then back to "Iron Rain", "Busan Trip", "Spy Movies"...
You can see it.
The director wants to rely on Ctrl+V to break through the many action movies.
Pity.
Want to learn "Crime City" does not have Ma Dongxi's "Palm God of War" persona; Want to learn "Hardcore Henry" but less immersive with the rear camera; Want to learn the explosive shell or even the cottage texture that can be seen at a glance; I want to learn "Flu" and "Busan Trip", but I lack enough wonderful group portrait dramas.
No more tributes and more intensive.
It's just a fake one for ten for a bad movie.
△ "Crime City", "Hardcore Henry", "Flu", "Busan Trip"
This is also the reason why many people, in addition to affirming the creativity of "Carter", are anti-general.
Visual ambitions are just embellishments, and the real core of action movies is still the story.
Also on the street is the "Witch 2" some time ago.
Obviously, there is the first pearl jade in front, but the sequel of IP is very different from the previous game.
"Koreans say Chinese, ridiculous";
"Plastic special effects play the concept of superhero, self-inadequacy";
The coolness of martial arts does not make up for the garbage of literary drama; The character image is not paved, flat like a disposable tool man..."
Take a look at these reviews.
It seems that except for the first one, there is no one that is not tailor-made for Carter.
△ Say plastic Chinese this section is really embarrassing to the sky
Finally, back to the movie.
One detail of the finale pulls the off-track plot back a little bit.
Remember the hotel where Carter woke up at the beginning of the movie?
It wasn't a random place.
It is the end of a secret passage from the North Korean Institute of Virology.
Therefore, the whole story from the beginning to the end, forming a closed loop on the coordinates.
However, apart from that, there is no call back in the whole movie.
In the final fight scene, Carter smashes the billboard for state propaganda, takes his wife and children away, and disappears from view.
Is it a renunciation of the national faith?
A pause in the search for self-identity?
Or did the director shoot here just to wipe the edge of the political scale, and did not dare to go deeper?
Anyway.
The answer that the movie doesn't give, Sir hopes time will give.
Rotten to the extreme is not terrible.
What is terrifying is the black hole of commercial movies, a glimpse of the inertia of bottoming out.
outside.
There is no longer the determination to bounce back.
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