Jackie Chan's box office appeal is not as good as before, which is an unwilling but undeniable fact.
After "Zodiac", there is only one "British Showdown" in the middle of Jackie Chan that is a good film, and most of the other movies rely on the feelings of Jackie Chan's action comedies, and "Dragon Horse Spirit" is also difficult to escape this method.
The story itself is clear and watery, there is nothing to tell, and all the plot developments, dramatic contradictions and sensational bridges are expected.
The script is better than nothing, maybe the text generated by chatGPT is stronger than it is now, and there is no trick in the structure, which is very traditional classical.
Liu Haocun's acting skills are as stable as ever, but they don't affect the perception much, after all, the tool attributes of her and Guo Qilin are too obvious.
It's just that Guo Qilin is too fat, he no longer has the aura of the "Qing Yu Nian" period, and the performances he contributed are all work, and he has not fully inherited the skills of his "biological father" Yu Qian.
The remaining actors, such as Zuer Yung, An Zhijie, Xiao Shenyang, Yu Rongguang, Jia Bing and others, did not have much highlights, purely to go through the scenes and increase the star flavor of the film.
Their combined good-looking is not as good as the red rabbit horse in the film, and Jackie Chan also played Guan Yu (Yu Rongguang played Guan Yu in "Three Kingdoms") and the terrier of the red rabbit, and he did not serve the three masters in one horse, unless Lü Bu was in the people.
Wu Jing's cameo is actually to serve Xuanfa, and then through his mouth to say the difficulty of the dragon and tiger martial artist.
Wu Jing is telling Jackie Chan the story of his past hard work from the mainland to Hong Kong, having nothing to achieve a small success, and then returning to the mainland to become a hit, which is his real experience.
In 2003, Wu Jing gave up his career in the mainland and went to Hong Kong alone to develop, and at first there was no drama to film at all, until the villain in "Kill the Wolf" was not seen.
But when Wu Jing's career just picked up, Hong Kong films were already thinning, and Wu Jing transformed into a director for the first time in "Wolf's Teeth", which had a bad reputation and box office.
After that, Wu Jing returned to the mainland, but at this time he was no longer Yang Yuqian, who was popular all over the country during the "Grandmaster Taiji" period.
After encountering "I Am the Blade of Special Forces Out of the Sheath", Wu Jing's name was remembered by everyone again, and the subsequent story, everyone knew, a "Wolf Warrior 2", Wu Jing reached the top.
Therefore, Wu Jing's self-narrated experience of Hong Kong drifting is an Easter egg, but the most exciting part of the film is the highlights of Jackie Chan movies in the film.
As well as those fan elements of Jackie Chan movies that are installed everywhere, so "Dragon Horse Spirit" can be regarded as a movie version of Jackie Chan's semi-autobiography, in which at least 20 Jackie Chan movies appear.
At the beginning of the film, Lao Luo, played by Jackie Chan, sees a figure hanging a doll in the shape of a clock, which is the same as "Plan A".
Lao Luo led Chitu on the street for people to take pictures, Jackie Chan wore indigenous clothes, this style comes from "Who I Am", on the set, Lao Luo read the script "New Police Story".
As a stuntman, Lao Luo has to run major crews, one of which is dressed as wearing goggles and a leather jacket, and the character image is from "Flying Eagle Project".
There is also Lao Luo's appearance of wearing blue leather clothes on the set, and like "Baby Project", the action design of turning the hat in front of his daughter originated from "Miracle".
The son and daughter took Lao Luo to meet the man's parents, and Lao Luo said that the first time he ate with his wife, he ate "civet stewed water fish whip", which is the famous line in "Police Story 3".
Lao Luo met his childhood daughter at a restaurant, and Lao Luo gave her a little white bear hat and put it on his head, in contrast to "Police Story 4".
When Jackie Chan evaded An Zhijie's debt collection, the shot of jumping from the second floor to the awning on the first floor and then landing on the ground replicates the classic scene in "Food Truck".
During the escape, I met a group of singing children, they happened to be seven people, led by the master to perform, Jackie Chan This is a tribute to the master Yu Zhanyuan and Seven Xiaofu, even the apprentice Wu Jing brought out by Jackie Chan in the film The name of the character played by Wu Jing is called Yuanwei, which shows Jackie Chan's intentions.
Jackie Chan told An Zhijie that he was just a nobody.
Because of his good performance in corpses, he was discovered by the director, and this plot was re-interpreted by Jackie Chan when he guest starred in Stephen Chow's "The King of Comedy".
Lao Luo's daughter asked her mother what kind of people they were with her father, and her mother said that they were simple, action, jump, hospital.
This passage comes from when Jackie Chan visited Spielberg, and the other party asked him how to do those thrilling actions, Jackie Chan said, action, jump, hospital.
At the end of the film, Lao Luo's appearance in ancient armor comes from "Mythology", and the set in the film is a scene in "Myth 2".
After the tidbits were played, Jackie Chan had a picture of standing next to Chitu and liking, this gesture is exactly the same as Jackie Chan's action in the parking lot in "Red Fan District", Jackie Chan took Guo Qilin to practice martial arts to pay tribute to "Drunken Fist".
When Yu Ailei introduced Lao Luo to Liu Haocun, he said that he was old before he grew up, and the title of Jackie Chan's autobiography when he was 61 years old was called "Jackie Chan: Old Before Growing Up".
In addition, there are two scenes of watching Jackie Chan movies and highlights in the film.
It includes but is not limited to "Plan A Continuation", "Police Story", "Police Story Sequel", "Brother Dragon and Tiger Brother", "City Hunter", "Double Dragon Society", "Thunderfire".
Unfortunately, after looking for the fan, "Dragon Horse Spirit" is lackluster.
The same script, if it is Jackie Chan when he is young, will be raised at least two notches.
When I saw Jackie Chan who couldn't be moved in "Dragon Horse Spirit", I was really sad, Jackie Chan was really old, kung fu movies were really down, and action actors were really broken.
The development of film and television shooting technology has completely disappeared from real hearing, real watching, and real feeling.
Changes in the film market have also made real action actors no longer popular, and it is no wonder that Jackie Chan laments that the era of kung fu actors has passed.
"I also thought about finding a second Jackie chan, but it was very difficult, even if a person is good at work, no boss is willing to invest, they would rather make other movies."
The previous feeling of punching to flesh is gone, and action movies can never go back.
Sometimes the end of the era is not so earth-shattering, most of the time it is a whimper, maybe in the future, action movies and Jackie Chan will become a symbol.
We may not see it often, but when we mention this symbol, we think of Jackie Chan, which is enough for us who love Jackie Chan and love Jackie Chan movies.
Because Jackie Chan has come down, but his works will never fade, because only Jackie Chan can do the end of the movie and the audience stay, just to see the tidbits.
Finally, I recommend a documentary "Jackie Chan's Stunts".