In mid-December, Cyberpunk 2077, developed and produced by well-known game developer CD Projekt RED, was officially released!
That's right, the video game that Keanu Reeves joined.
According to Steam's official online statistics, the number of Cyberpunk 2077 players has exceeded 1 million.
Humans invent games in order to provide themselves with a way to entertain themselves and meet the needs of the spiritual world. Playing games is fun, and when games and movies are combined, it becomes "doubly happy."
Boss Level
The film tells a game-like story of infinite loops.
Captain "Roy", played by the male protagonist Frank Grillo, finds himself caught in a death cycle, staging a "little trick of death" every day.
After being killed, he was resurrected, so he started his "game life".
Just like breaking through the level in the game, when he goes through five levels and slashes six generals, the survival time is getting longer and longer.
He later discovers that his death cycle is related to his ex-wife's organization, and she puts herself in the cycle, as if to expose the organization's unknown conspiracies and stop them.
In order to break this cycle, but also to find the truth, the male protagonist begins to learn how to catch his ex-wife's boss "Colonel Vito" (Mel Gibson) alive.
In the end, the male protagonist defeated "Colonel Vito" and saved the beauty.
Breaking through, resurrecting, breaking through, defeating the big boss, and finally saving the heroine, isn't this the routine of the classic game "Super Mario"?
Especially at the beginning of the film, the full 80s and 90s pixel style is simply too familiar to old players.
It is also embarrassing to say, obviously it is a movie with a strong game style, but it is translated as "leader level" on Douban, which is simply a bull's head is not right.
As soon as this translation came out, it was immediately complained about by netizens!
But anyone who plays a game can think of a similar name without using their brains:
The last level! The ultimate level should be okay!
So, I prefer to call it Loop: The Ultimate Battle (hereinafter referred to as the Ultimate Battle).
So, what kind of happiness can this movie bring?
First, a strong cast, a rare B-grade film configuration
Due to cost considerations, the general B-grade film has a shorter length and rougher production, and will not invite any big stars.
However, "The Final Battle" has a strong cast rare in B-grade films.
The film's director, Joe Kanahan, has directed films such as "Dragon Agents" and "Man-Wolf Wars", and has worked with liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Ryan Renault, Ben Affleck and other actors (the director is on the right side of the picture below).
Frank Grillo, who plays the male protagonist, may not be able to associate it with the name at once, but the roles he has played will certainly not be unfamiliar to Chinese audiences.
He played the villain role "Crossbones" in Marvel movies, starred in "Captain America 2, 3" and "Avengers 4", and played the villain boss "Daddy" in the domestic movie "Wolf Warrior 2".
That's right, it was he who fought with Wu Jing.
Naomi Watts, who plays the heroine "Jama", has starred in the "Mulholland Road", "Veil" and "Divergent" series, and she is the goddess who made King Kong's heart move in the 05 version of the classic movie "King Kong".
In this film, she is still incredibly beautiful with a short blond hair, playing "Dr. Gemma", who developed the "main axis".
Mel Gibson, who plays the villain "Colonel Vito," is a Hollywood heavyweight director and actor.
His works are countless, including the Mad Max series, the Deadly Weapons series, the biographical war film Hacksaw Ridge, and the film history classic Braveheart.
The three protagonists are so powerful, and the supporting roles are not small.
Annabella Wallis, who plays a dental nurse, has participated in "Blood Gangster", partnered with Atango in "The New Mummy", and starred in "Annabelle", which is famous in the horror genre.
Playing the bar owner "Jack" is Ken Zheng, who has participated in the "Hangover" series, "Gold Picking" and "Avengers 4" and other movies, and is most well known to domestic audiences as "Shu Hua Man" in "Transformers 3".
What is even more surprising to domestic audiences is that there is also Yang Ziqiong in this movie!
Yang Ziqiong plays the Chinese swordsmanship master "Master Feng" in this film, and she will play an important task in this film to teach the male protagonist "Roy" swordplay.
I really can't imagine that a movie with such a cast is actually a B-grade film production.
Second, popcorn flavored funny science fiction films
Although "The Ultimate Battle" is an action movie set in a science fiction background, in fact, the pseudo-science fiction setting does not have to be more real.
Scene action scenes are naturally also indispensable, car chase scenes, gun battle scenes, explosion scenes should have a lot, popcorn flavor.
These are not highlights, the real highlights are all kinds of funny bridges and all kinds of memes. For example, if you race on a city road, you will definitely encounter a bus or train.
Therefore, the male protagonist summed up an experience: don't look at things when driving (small partners who like to look at their mobile phones while driving remember this sentence)
When he discovered that he might have a tracker installed on him, he groped in the mirror in the restaurant toilet.
But when the waiter opened the door and saw him, it was a different story entirely.
(Those who have seen it will know that the picture is a bit hot-eyed...) ）
After finding the tracker and learning from the dental nurse that "Colonel Vito" is behind it, the man decides to drive through the wall and kill the enemy's hole.
Unfortunately, his handsome man did not succeed, and the car crashed into the rammed wall but did not move.
It was difficult to blend into the office building of the big villain, but it was blocked by a bunch of villains blocking the elevator entrance.
It is impossible to break out of the siege, and you can't run away, so what to do?
Can only commit suicide, a bunch of villains look confused.
At this point, the setting of the infinite loop of the story is fully utilized, and this slightly nonsensical behavior creates a good comedic effect.
How funny is this movie? Some viewers directly smiled and their faces were pasted on the screen.
In addition to a variety of funny bridges, the movie also implanted a lot of stems.
When he broke into the villain's base for the second time and used a gas canister to blow up a group of creeps, he was caught by the security director.
Unexpectedly, he actually said: I can do this all day.
Brother, did you steal the exclusive line of "American Team"?
Before the female killer "Guan Yin" started, she always liked to play a few sword flowers and pose
Borrowing the scene of Harrison Ford directly killing the opponent in "Raiders of the Lost Ark", he complained about the handsome behavior of the female killer before the fight.
What is more interesting is that every time "Guan Yin" kills the male protagonist, he will say a slogan: I am Guan Yin, and Guan Yin completes the task.
Isn't it like the NPCs in the game, which will have a fixed slogan every time the mission is completed?
Also, director Joe Kanahan didn't forget Ait's old partner he had worked with. The son "Joe" is very curious about the work of the male protagonist, so he asks: Are you like the protagonist in "Hurricane Rescue", do you have any superpowers?
He smiled: "Liam Neeson?"
The addition of these memes is like an Easter egg buried in the game, and only familiar players will smile when they find it.
Third, the infinite cycle of life, the core is still moving
The setting of "the infinite cycle of life" is not uncommon in movies.
For example, the famous "Groundhog Day", "Source Code", "Edge of Tomorrow" starring Atang Ge, these films that use the "infinite cycle of life" setting, not only experience different endings in repeated repetitions, but more importantly, find their inner belonging.
Similarly, saving the world is not the core purpose that "The Ultimate War" wants to express, what it really wants to express is "Roy's" regret and guilt for the loss of family affection.
Looking at the back of the father and son snuggling up to each other, the scene full of warmth made people tear up.
After reading it, some netizens sighed:
Decorate with the coat of science fiction to make up for the regret of losing family affection, and do and cherish.
Some netizens also regretted the ending, and could not see the picture of a family of three rowing.
It is undeniable that "Loop: The Final Battle" belongs to a very old-fashioned setting in 2020, both in terms of logical framework and central idea.
But it is not useless, and we can still get joy from the movie and feel the importance of family affection.
Especially in the 2020 year that is about to pass, full of sad atmosphere, how we hope to be like the male protagonist, have an infinite cycle of time, to make up for and even save the people they love the most.
But time is always moving forward, and we can't go back in time. All we can do is:
Cherish every moment of the present!
Bluestone Film Editorial Office | Cold brother
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