Everyone is familiar with Shange Yunton, it seems that the "one-word horse" shown in the Volvo commercial is his last stubbornness, and the martial arts superstar in the 2015 film "Fatal Pursuit", the performance can not save the reality of his own downfall.
As they get older, if the transition is not successful, it will be difficult for action actors to continue to be loved by fans.
"Fatal Pursuit" as an action film with shanggyenton blessing only got a score of 5.4, which is not a kind of irony, the film produced in 2015 is now only seen by more than a thousand people on Douban, and the scores given are basically below Samsung.
In 2018, he and Longer starred in "Deep Sea Prison Break", which was even more tragic.
After lamenting the "cheap and old", we need to explore the question of why action movies seem unpopular, or martial arts stars are becoming more and more difficult to get ahead, which we may wish to start with "Fatal Pursuit".
The story of the film "Fatal Pursuit" is slightly dog bloody, the male protagonist Deakin gave his girlfriend Anna to his brother to have a child, and when his ex-girlfriend's life was in danger, Deakin decided to donate his kidney.
However, Anna did not miss the old feelings, but took the opportunity to put Deakin together. Just before donating the kidney, Deakin was tragically framed, and by the time the tough guy woke up, the kidney he had donated was gone.
After that, Deegin began to pursue the path of the truth on his own, and in the process of tracing, Digin gradually discovered a series of conspiracies, and finally ended the battle with neat and crisp fist and foot kung fu.
"Fatal Pursuit" is a typical action movie, it has the traditional action film "revenge" routine, and also wants to rely on action scenes to win the audience's hearts, but Shange Winton had to realize one thing: the times have changed, he is also old.
Shange Yunton's old age is obvious, he is no longer the man who was as strong as a lion before, the fight scene is still wonderful, but we can feel a sense of weakness that is difficult to hide, that is to say, Shange Yunton's fist has no strength.
Once Shange Yunton, a 60-year-old man, can't make the audience feel the power, then "Fatal Pursuit" has actually failed half of it, and I prefer to interpret the title as a film that is fatal to Shange Yunton.
The audience's evaluation is quite real, except for the focus of Shange Winton, other elements of the film have been spit out, and the shooting scene is a big slot.
From the actual shooting location, "Fatal Pursuit" was filmed in Guangzhou, but in the subtitles of the film, the shooting location was set to the Philippines, which also made me suspect that the Philippines would not have such a high degree of "Sinicization" when watching the film.
On the whole, "Fatal Pursuit" is a substandard action movie, but it obviously does not match the name of Shang ge Yunton, and the audience does not see the imaginary Shang Ge Yunton, and this film naturally does not get too good reviews.
It is worth mentioning that this film has certain merits in terms of plot design, and the interlocking plot with the thriller elements that appear from time to time could have allowed the film to rise to a higher level, but the director often used a variety of chaotic characters to break up the complete plot, such as the beginning of the dung chaos to make people feel strange.
After "Fatal Pursuit", Shange Yunton has actually fallen into the bottleneck period of his career, which is also the dilemma that many action film actors will face, and the root cause of this dilemma lies in those of us who once loved action movies.
With the increase in the number of films, our attitude towards the film has become more and more critical, and it has begun to be difficult to bear some flaws in the film, put twenty years ago, "Fatal Pursuit" will not be ignored because of its own flaws, but the times can not go back after all, we can only expect these action film actors to find their own path.