Hello everyone, I'm Xiao Lizi, welcome to this episode, today's movie review is "Amsterdam".
The operation was as fierce as a tiger, and the box office was less than six hundred and five. That's right, it's you Amsterdam. On October 7, a total of 3 new films were released in the North American film market, namely "Crocodile Lailai", "Amsterdam" and "Broken Soul Clown 2", of which the most anticipated is "Amsterdam", let's not talk about the story, let's talk about this lineup, you can say that luxury is not luxurious. The director and screenwriter of the film are David J. O. Russell, Russell's strength is still there, after all, the "Happiness Line Behind the Clouds" and "Fighter" directed before are both movies with good reputation and box office. And the actor is even more powerful, "Batman" Christian Bale, "Harlequin Girl" Margot Robbie, and Nolan's "Creed" protagonist John David Washington, three big names co-starred, supporting roles include Michael Shannon, Timothy Olyphant, Zoe Saldana, Rami Marek, and the old actor Robert De Niro, and even "moldy" Taylor Swift also showed his face. Just so many big names joined, the investment will certainly not be less, it is said that the film investment reached 80 million US dollars, for a comedy movie, this number is really a lot, so much investment in the goose but failed to exchange for the corresponding return, the film's box office in the first weekend is only 6.44 million US dollars, the overseas box office is only 3.29 million, from its investment point of view at least the global box office to reach 200 million to return the cost, at present, it seems that the film has no return.
What makes a star-studded movie so bad? First of all, let's take a look at the plot introduction, a general died mysteriously, his daughter-in-law (Swift) invited Bell and David Washington to investigate the matter, the two had previously worked together in the army, and then Margot Robbie, who was a nurse in the army, also participated in the investigation, so the three experienced an adventure together. The story itself is not too problematic, but the director's positioning of the film seems to be a bit problematic, whether to make a suspense film, a comedy, or a detective film, rushing to everything is like nothing, and finally becomes a four-like. The plot of the film is a bit chaotic, and it does not reflect the interlocking of solving the case, but the plot is very loose, and I don't know what to talk about for more than two hours. In addition, there are problems with the actors' performances, I don't know if it's for the pursuit of comedy effects, every actor is neurotic, just like Captain Jack in "Pirates of the Caribbean", if there is a Captain Jack in a movie, it will be very happy, but everyone is Captain Jack, then the director of this film is definitely neurotic, I don't believe the director and screenwriter very much, are Russell. Finally, and I am more puzzled, you have a comedy movie, give an R-rated positioning, this is to learn from the "Hangover" series? Just this R-level positioning can reduce the audience by half.
"Batman" Christian Bale
"Harlequin Girl" Margot Robbie
John David Washington
Swift also showed his face
Here, I also want to say two digressions, the film is produced by Disney's 20th Century Pictures, but this actor is from DC/Warner, such as Bell played "Batman", Robbie played "Harlequin Girl", Shannon played "General Zod", Washington played "Creed", this large group of Warner actors, ran to Disney to make a bad movie, this is not considered DC through roundabout tactics to break into Marvel, causing damage to the enemy, if so, to Russell a credit. Of course, this is pure joke, don't take it seriously.
Finally, let's take a look at the scores of domestic and foreign film review media, the Rotten Tomatoes index is 32%, Metacritic scores 48, Cinemascore score B, and Douban score is only 5.9. It can also be seen from this that the reputation of the film is indeed not good.
Finally, the author makes a summary, "Amsterdam" as a film full of big names, but failed to shoot the level it deserved, the overall rhythm is more chaotic, the story is also a little lengthy, the author gave an evaluation of two stars.