Without innovation, and unable to walk the acting school, it will slowly disappear in the audience's vision.
Steven. In the 1990s, Sig was still a familiar action star in China. I remember watching his film at that time, shaking his hands up and down, holding the dagger back, fighting cleanly and neatly, and the fighting part was more exciting. But as we age, Sig's acting style has not changed in the slightest.
First of all, take the image, in addition to some fortune after getting older, the face has a beard, basically there is no change, still wearing a small braid, black suits are more common. In terms of fighting, Sig's movements are still so few, mainly because he can't get past the enemy's joints. The strike position is usually the neck, chin, and often break the fingers of the enemy. His fighting style derives from the Japanese Aikido, where Sig has a black belt level and has a martial arts hall with more than 2,000 students in Japan. Although this kind of fighting technique has a good effect on defeating the enemy, but there are so many moves back and forth, it is really a bit aesthetic fatigue.
Although the movie "Murder Contract" is not interesting, it can be seen that the director is trying to please the audience, and it can be said that the plot is not enough and the elements are made up. What are the specific elements?
First, mystery. Secret agent movies generally give the protagonist a legendary color. In fact, it makes the audience feel that the protagonist may be quite powerful, and there are many special skills and unknown resources. John, played by Seeger, is a former CIA and Drug Enforcement Agency agent in the film and is familiar with group crime. Others can't ask questions, as long as he comes out, three words and two words can make the suspect confess.
Second, beauty. From the very beginning when the Drug Enforcement Bureau approached John, it was clear that this was a popular character for women. Most of the beauties around John are young European women, and it is worth noting that these female characters have black hair. It is estimated that Sig prefers actors who are similar to his skin color and hair color, after all, Sig is a Kalmyk nation, also known as kalmyk Mongols. However, except for the heroine Zara, the other female characters are only fleeting. As an FBI female agent, Zara's fighting skills are really too ordinary, obviously improvised exercises, and it is particularly awkward to fight.
Third, technology. Almost one-tenth of the scenes in the movie are given to drones, and they are our domestic brands, so I don't need to say my name. In order to advertise for us in China, even sharp, the partner who controls the drone, is a Chinese actor with a very down-to-earth name, called Wang Shengde. He often played asian roles, and in Jet Li's early Hollywood film Deadly Romeo, Wang Shengde played the villain known to Chinese audiences.
Fourth, mafia plus terrorists. These two elements are reserved ingredients in action movies, and no matter how powerful the villains are, most of them can be related to mafia and terrorists. In the film, the two become the target of John's provocation, John steals the mafia's car and tracks the terrorists; Zara finds an Arab taxi driver to follow the mafia. Then both sides believe that each other is plotting against each other, in short, the plot is very bloody.
The film should not be high in terms of production costs, the entire film is concentrated in a hotel and a mansion, counting the group performances, there are more than 30 people, the main vehicles: sports cars, cars, SUVs each. To be honest, the film's framing fee and vehicle usage fee are really not necessarily higher than the price of the drone (the drone model in the film should be around 280,000).
The storyline is particularly clear, with John, Zara and Sharp successfully smashing the Mafia and the Terrorist Syndicate. The protagonist's aura is too obvious, except that Zara and Sharp will be beaten during the fight, and John is unharmed the whole time. Whether it is a mafia or a terrorist, punches and kicks are useless to John, and there is no hit. And it's clear that John only uses half of his fighting skills, because throughout the film John fights with his upper limbs and doesn't kick a single kick except for two knee lifts.
In addition, the film also uses details to show John's marksmanship, such as after entering the door, in order to take care of the enemies on both sides, look to the left and hold the gun in the right, and look to the left to become the left hand gun. I thought it was a foreshadowing, John would need to use the other hand because of the injury, I thought too much, people are this habit. Seriously, in actual combat, it is better to change it like this than to look directly to the other side.
In order to increase the depth of the film, John says two separate paragraphs, saying to the terrorists: "I understand that fighters fight for their own cause, for their country, for their religion, for the ideology of their faith, but I am absolutely not in favor of killing innocent women and children." The Tang Bai section at the end says: "What we do is to protect the people of the United States, and the people and officials of the United States do not need to know what we have done, how we have done it, or who did it, they just need to know that they are safe when they turn off the lights at night and rest." ”
Well, for the sake of these two paragraphs, 10 out of 10 I give this movie a 4.