The Mid-Autumn Festival movie "Boss" "Peak Explosion", which has high hopes, has won about 130 million at the box office in three days of release, two of which are only released at night.
According to this trend, when the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday ends, the box office of "Peak Explosion" should be able to easily exceed 200 million, and 300 million is not impossible. By the time the National Day movie boss "Changjin Lake" is released on September 30, the final box office of "Peak Explosion" may be around 300 million to 400 million, but it may be difficult to break through 500 million.
This achievement is also not satisfactory, after all, before the release of "Peak Explosion", the major film media predicted that the box office of the film was between 220 million and 400 million, and obviously, the box office performance of "Peak Explosion" was basically in line with the forecast target.
It is worth mentioning that the word-of-mouth score of "Peak Explosion" has also come out, as of the time of this article, it is only 6.7 points, which may not reach the expected score of many viewers including the author, and the author has seen the IMAX field of "Peak Explosion" and believes that the word-of-mouth score of the film can be between three stars and four stars, that is, about 7.5 points.
On the one hand, the box office has risen steadily in line with expectations, on the other hand, the reputation is not high, and there are still a lot of complaints in the film review area, why is this?
The author believes that "Peak Explosion" may have the following four problems:
First, the plot - not enough preparation
On the whole, the plot of "Peak Explosion" is no problem, the basic structure of the story is divided into two lines, large and small, the big line is the tunnel and the rescue of the county, and there are repeated twists and turns. The small line is a father and son leading four ordinary passengers out of trouble, and there is a dark line of father-son relationship in the middle.
Of course, the plot without problems is not to say that it is certain, because the setting of these plots basically does not exceed the psychological expectations of the audience, that is to say, the story has no strong turning point and no strong burst point, and the ending of almost every plot is already in the expectations of most audiences.
On the one hand, the reason for the lack of strong turning points and strong explosions should be in the stability of the film's screenwriting work, after all, behind the theme of China Railway Construction and old railway soldiers.
On the other hand, it is actually a matter of duration, "Peak Explosion" is only 114 minutes long, not even two hours, which leads to a lot of plot preparation is very simple and causes the plot to be abrupt.
For example, Hong Yizhou (Zhu Yilong) entered the underground river to look for his father, both ends are smeared to find, Hong Yizhou's father (Huang Zhizhong) does not know that his son is on the way to save himself, when Hong Yizhou risked his life to finally see his father, it should have been a very explosive scene, but because there is no paving directly let Hong Yizhou suddenly appear and then a "dad" unveiled the mystery, the audience brewed good emotions have nowhere to release.
There is also the fact that helicopters cannot transport personnel to the entrance of the cave on the hill, and the film only allows the rescue personnel to give up after only one attempt, ready to blow up the tunnel that has been repaired for ten years. Then, Hong Yizhou took the initiative to ask Miao and his father to climb the rock with their bare hands for so long in the rainstorm to reach the mouth of the cave, and also paid the price of life, this scene seems to be not enough.
Is there really no other way to get into the cave entrance? How many more times is it okay? Is it okay to put down a person vertically? In short, this scene is not paved enough, which will lead to Hong Yizhou's rainstorm unconvincing climbing, resulting in the sacrifice of Hong Yizhou's father not being of great value, and it is strange not to be complained about.
If "Peak Explosion" can expand the length of the movie to two and a half hours like "2012", or even reach three hours, and do the details of the plot in place, the overall plot will be more reasonable and more ups and downs, and the burst points and tear points will be released perfectly.
Second, the actor - the average strength faction
If "Peak Explosion" does not have a big coffee, some viewers are certainly not happy, is it that Zhu Yilong, Huang Zhizhong, Chen Shu, Zhang Guoli and other people have a small coffee position?
Realistically speaking, the acting skills of the actors in the star lineup of "Peak Explosion" are good, and they are very strong, even Cheng Taishen, who may not be familiar to the audience, is also a famous powerful actor, and Zhu Yilong, who is mistaken by many people as also belonging to the ranks of "small fresh meat", is a high-quality acting school.
The problem is that "Peak Explosion" lacks a big name who can independently carry the box office and carry the word of mouth, to take a perhaps inappropriate example, some of the supporting roles and dragon sets of "Bright Sword" are rotten to home, but Li Youbin alone can bring the whole drama up.
This is the problem of "Peak Explosion", the strength of the actors is too average, and there is a lack of big names who have a strong persuasion to the audience at the box office and word of mouth of the movie. Of course, it is not absolutely nothing, Zhang Yi, but unfortunately he shows too little face, at most even if it is a big dragon set.
To use a less appropriate analogy, trains run fast, all by headband, but that was before. "Peak Explosion" is filmed with high-speed rail, high-speed trains do not rely solely on the front of the car, it is said that some carriages also have power output, that is, average power, which is in line with the film's idea of casting actors, the average strength.
Third, the line - someone is dragging their feet
Some actors in "Peak Explosion" have no problems or even excellent lines, such as Zhu Yilong, Jiao Junyan and Huang Zhizhong are very good, but there are also some actors whose lines are problematic, which drags their feet in a certain sense.
For example, Chen Shu, the Ding Zong she plays does have the style of a big project manager most of the time, but some lines, especially the lines spoken loudly, are not handled well, and some of them have the feeling of shouting lines, in fact, this role is not as good as changing an actor, such as letting Zhang Yi play, which may have a better effect.
For example, Zhang Guoli, he plays a high-level cadre of the state, who can mobilize satellites at any time, but whether it is the aura or the lines, he is not handled properly, and some netizens joke that Zhang Guoli has performed the feeling of the senior cadres alive as the uncle of the neighborhood committee.
In fact, it seems more appropriate to give this role to Zhang Shen, who is from "Wu Belle", good at playing the big boss of various large groups and large companies, the image is high-end and atmospheric, the lines are sonorous and powerful, he stands next to Zhang Guoli, how to see how to look like his micro-service private visit.
The audience can tolerate the problem of one person's lines, but if several people have flaws in their lines and characters, the perception of the movie will plummet.
Fourth, special effects - not the main cause
Many bad reviews of "Peak Explosion" put bad special effects in the first place, but this is not accurate.
On the one hand, the special effects in the first half of "Peak Explosion" are quite good, especially the section of the ground subsidence and the train derailment, which is not at all lost in the "2012" California earthquake scene, and even "Peak Explosion" may be more in place to combine special effects and real scenes.
The main problem with the special effects of "Peak Explosion" is that at the end of the film, a mountain explodes, a mountain slides as a whole, and then crashes together. Such a large scene, the film did not make an earth-shattering sense of shock, which also lacked the tense atmosphere of 160,000 people in the county who were in danger and escaped from death, and the audience would not be strongly moved.
On the other hand, if the plot of "Peak Explosion" is complete, the actors are selected appropriately, and the lines are handled well, the special effects are poor and will not affect much word of mouth, typical such as Yang Jie's version of "Journey to the West", what level of special effects is ah, far worse than the sequel, but the reputation is much better than the sequel, which not only has a nostalgia complex.
Therefore, the movie, or should first tell a good story, spend a lot of money on the screenwriter first, then the director, the actor and the costume, and finally the special effects, can not be reversed, the screenwriter is the soul of a movie.
In the end, although the author complained a lot about "Peak Explosion", I still think that "Peak Explosion" is worth watching and recommending, because the author and many audiences are only aimed at the perspective of film art, and there are two generations of railway soldiers in "Peak Explosion" that people can't help but be moved, as well as their inheritance, dedication, responsibility and sacrifice.
I remember that in the 1990s, I saw a movie called "Road God", in which a road construction worker shouted to the crowd when he was injured and hospitalized: Those who build roads are gods.
Lu Shen, this is the first word that the author thought of after watching "Peak Explosion".