On June 12, "Alien Parasite: Origin" starring Zeng Zhiwei and Xu Dongdong premiered online.
The series "Alien" is undoubtedly a super classic in science fiction film history, and the latest work in the series, "Alien: Death Ship", will be released in the summer in 2024. Unexpectedly, the domestic network university was forcibly remade, which really made people laugh and cry.
Rotten, the domestic online remake of "Alien", the audience didn't buy it, and the box office was only 302,000!
"Alien Parasite: Origin" was produced by a Hong Kong film team.
Director Zhong Zhixing is a gold medal special effects artist for Hong Kong films, and has participated in the production of many Hong Kong-style blockbusters such as "Chinese Heroes", "Shaolin Football" and "Kung Fu", and has won the Best Visual Effects Award at the Golden Horse Golden Statue many times. However, the director passed away in 2021, and this "Alien Parasite: Origin" is his posthumous work.
Zeng Zhiwei needless to say.
can be called one of the iconic bigwigs of Hong Kong films, one of the Seven Monsters of New Art City, and a Hong Kong film giant that once gave Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers a headache.
Zeng Zhiwei's "Best Partner", "Five Lucky Stars", "Infernal Affairs" and other series are all classic works that Hong Kong films can't get around.
The heroine of the movie, Xu Dongdong, is the Jing girl supported by Wang Jing.
You must know that Wang Jing's aesthetics have always been very fixed, Xu Dongdong's acting skills are almost none, and he completely relies on his hot body to break into the entertainment industry, which is also the reason why many Internet universities are willing to invite Xu Dongdong to star, after all, when the audience sees Xu Dongdong, they know that this film will definitely be a scene of selling meat.
It's a pity that the audience doesn't buy this kind of bad movie.
The box office on the first day of the movie's release was only 302,000, and according to the current trend, the final box office of the film may not exceed 3 million, I don't know if it is enough to ask Zeng Zhiwei's salary.
Although the movie claims to be a remake of "Alien", it is basically a gimmick.
"Alien Parasite: Origin" is only 75 minutes long, but after watching the whole movie, you will find that the whole film is filled with water, the plot is not a little nutritious, it is simply boring and boring, the story takes place in the future, the Zerg invaded the earth, and humans resisted for 20 years, during which humans did nothing, and they studied how to communicate with the Zerg every day. Finally cracked the frequency of the Zerg.
A message was sent to the Zerg's boss, the mother, asking for peace.
But the mother worm didn't dare, and she also made a plan to use venom to make the zerg parasitize on humans to achieve the goal of dominating the earth.
In the film, Xu Dongdong plays the commando leader of the Human Resistance Army, and Zeng Zhiwei plays the doctor who studies the Zerg. One is a Hong Kong film goddess, the other is a Hong Kong film boss, this time the acting skills are surprisingly consistent, of course, Zeng Zhiwei's acting skills have nothing to say, the Golden Horse Golden Statue Best Actor and Supporting Actor, but Zeng Zhiwei has no highlights in "Alien Parasite: Origin", the lines in the whole film do not fluctuate, and he is here to earn a pension at first glance.
Not to mention the special effects of the movie, not even five cents.
There are a lot of loopholes in the plot, the Zerg in the film can be invaded interstellarly, and they will be killed by human pistols, just with this kind of combat power, human beings will be forced to the point of extinction, isn't it a joke?
Of course, with this kind of small cost and large network, you can't expect the film to be very well-made.
But Hong Kong filmmakers really don't know what the pattern is when they shoot sci-fi themes, the world is over, and there are no more than 20 people in the whole film, maybe to save money, the zerg also appears scattered. Not to mention heavy equipment such as fighter jets and tanks, as well as high-tech weapons such as drones and mechanical dogs?
I'm afraid that the combat power and IQ of the Zerg in the film are not enough for us to fight in a synthetic battalion.
To put it bluntly, Hong Kong movies still use the routine of police and gangster films to make sci-fi films, which leads to the whole movie being full of childishness, and then learned to play the role of the actress of the Internet University, and the mother worm in the film is parasitic on the second female body, and various postures make people blush.
Why bother!
Stop it, 71-year-old Zeng Zhiwei made 3 bad movies on the Internet in 6 months, and the audience received bad reviews, and the evening is not guaranteed!
The most disappointing thing about "Alien Parasite: Origin" is undoubtedly Zeng Zhiwei.
Hong Kong filmmakers basically regard acting as a profession, so they don't have any concept of high morality.
In many cases, it is the emotional filter of mainland audiences that thinks Hong Kong movie stars are too good, 71-year-old Zeng Zhiwei is very fast in making bad movies, and in 2024 alone, Zeng Zhiwei will star in "Infernal Drug Ticket", "Black and White Sneak", and "Alien Parasite: Origin".
Word-of-mouth is all bad reviews.
are all copycat movies that are popular, Zeng Zhiwei has no bright spots in these bad movies, basically he just shoots when he gives money, and even the lip shape doesn't match many times, can he keep it if he goes on like this?