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2005's "Myth" has become a classic of fantasy adventure action films in domestic films. After the movie was launched, it was nominated for a number of authoritative awards, and the theme song of "Mythology" alone spread all over the country and became a Chinese golden song.
After 19 years, Jackie Chan and Tang Jili collaborated again on this "Legend", which also uses fantasy adventure as the highlight and the sequel of "Myth" as a gimmick, which successfully attracted a large number of fans into the cinema.
Objectively speaking, fans' expectations for "Legend" are not so high, after all, Jackie Chan's action movies on the big screen over the years have basically been disappointing, only because it is Jackie Chan, so the audience is more tolerant.
According to the data, the movie "Legend" won a total of 30 million screenings and a zero-point box office when it was launched, as a movie that has not yet been officially launched, the box office performance of "Legend" is very good.
But clicking on the first wave of word-of-mouth of "Legend" is still a big disappointment.
"The technical level still needs to be strengthened", "The repetition of lines, plots, and characters sounds like 'self-tribute', and the ugly thing is to reshoot the script of "Myth", "When you are in the theater, you want to leave in fifteen minutes".
The comments of netizens are very sharp, even if the starring role is Jackie Chan, he has not escaped the spicy trial, and the movie "Legend" is indeed lower than expectations when fans do not have expectations. is even more outrageous than "Myth", which was constantly ridiculed when it was first released.
The sense of routine is too strong, the sense of effort is obvious, and the stamina of "Legend" is insufficient
The combination of Tang Jili + Jackie Chan has become a fixed match, and the addition of Zhang Yixing, Li Zhiting, Guli Nazha, Peng Xiaoran and other young actors has injected fresh vitality into the movie "Legend".
But the script is bad and the strength is insufficient, which is a bug that the lineup can't save.
The proportion of the two story lines of the movie "Legend" is unbalanced, especially when the modern drama is played later, there is a feeling of hastily ending, and even the appearance of Kim Hee-sun is not enough to arouse the audience's feelings.
Jackie Chan's action scenes are very hard, but they are also very difficult, the difficulty of the action scenes is much lower than when he was young, in contrast, the young actors in the movie can't afford the excitement of the action scenes, there is no strength in the posture, and there are obvious traces of coercion behind every exaggerated action.
This level of action scenes is unavoidable, but it is indeed a fact that the audience's viewing experience is not good.
In addition, the portrayal of other actors is also more or less problematic.
The first is Zhang Yixing, as an actor who has successfully transformed, Zhang Yixing is really not suitable for the role image of ancient generals, he looks like a boiled egg in many shots, this kind of idol face is hard to turn into a tough guy image The feeling of just losing the idol burden and acting strength cannot be done, and if it is not suitable, it is not suitable.
Guli Nazha's appearance is stunningly beautiful, but the character's soul is empty, and Naza's acting skills have improved significantly, but it can't suppress the boring routines of the script.
Especially when they started to play emotional scenes in the second half, Zhang Yixing and Guli Nazha not only had no sense of CP in their images, but their emotional foreshadowing was also blunt.
Not only that, Peng Xiaoran, who is highly recognized for her beauty and acting skills, is also completely dragged down by the role, and she plays Xinran as a common oil bottle character in straight male adventure films, but this kind of female role is outdated and disgusting, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is an ugly character.
Actor Li Zhiting behaved decently, the arc of the characters was not enough, the image of the treacherous villain was seriously faced, and the expressiveness like boiled water was really difficult to evaluate.
In general, "Legend" is a film that can be seen with intentions, but it feels like a play, there is no sense of substitution in the ancient scenes, the whole movie is more like a mythological science fiction film, the texture is cheap, if it is not supported by the cast, it really seems to be a bad network.
According to the quality of "Legend" so far, the box office of this movie must be lacking in stamina this summer. In addition, after the launch of "Legend", it also caused the biggest controversy "AI face swapping is too fake".
A backlog of a year, and the biggest gimmick turned out to be sparsely done
The audience's biggest expectation for the movie "Legend" must be Jackie Chan, if there is no Jackie Chan, "Legend" will not be more popular than ordinary summer movies in the early publicity.
Moreover, the movie "Legend" has been backlogged for at least a year, and as a movie that requires special effects to complete, the audience will naturally think that the later stage of the movie will be particularly detailed.
But the fact is that the part of the AI face-swapping young Jackie Chan in the movie is really not as good as the level of many UP masters.
On the big screen, any small flaw will be infinitely magnified, and the details of the face in this movie are so bad that they are a mess.
The light and shadow are wrong, the emotional expression is too poor, and the final effect of changing the face is that the eyes are empty and the emotions are unclear. The most outrageous thing is that there is also a distortion of the edges of Jackie Chan's face in the lens.
At such a production level, netizens can't really be blamed for questioning the fake AI face swap.
The most myocardial infarction is that the 70-year-old Jackie Chan tried AI face swapping in order to satisfy the audience in the movie to feel his youthful demeanor, and the final effect was not good, but at the end of the movie, Jackie Chan personally went into battle and played a very hard action scene with Li Zhiting.
This really put the audience on the moral kidnapping of "no merit and hard work", scolding is not, and praise is really not praised.
Of course, "Legend" is not useless, most of the scenes in the movie are filmed on location, the scenery of Xinjiang is really beautiful, and the vast picture sense is indeed spectacular.
At this point, at least "Legend" didn't find a shed to fool the audience.
In addition, although the young actors have all kinds of flaws, their performances are very sincere, especially the image of Zhang Yixing's idol is very heavy, but the parts of shooting, archery, and horseback riding and melee are all very complete.
As for Jackie Chan's humor in many plot clips, there is no feeling of awkward laughter, and there is no stiffness in the use of jokes, to put it bluntly, "Legend" is a movie that needs to be measured according to the ticket price of the movie.
Under 30, it is definitely not a loss, look at the beautiful scenery of Xinjiang, the beauties of Xinjiang, and even watch the acting skills of the actors in the complaint, it is still worth the ticket price.
More than 30, it is recommended to watch "Mythology" to solve your cravings, the quality of "Legend" is not as good as "Myth" at all, and it is not too late to wait for the movie to be released on the online platform.
Finally, what do you think of the movie Legends? Which parts of the movie are more satisfied with, and which parts are not capable of complaining? Join the discussion in the comments section and share your evaluation and opinion of the movie.