Superbody
Director: Luc Besson
Writers: Luc Besson
Starring: Scarlett Johansson / Morgan Freeman / Choi Min-sik / Amar Vickerd / Julian Linschid-Tut / Johan Philippe Asbock / Annalise Tipton / Jen Oliver Schroeder / Frederick Chow / Claire Chen / Cedric Shevamm / Shaw Swain / Paul Chen / Lin Weiheng
Genre: Action / Sci-Fi
Country/Region of Production: France
Language: English / Mandarin Chinese / Korean / French
Release: 2014-10-24
Since I received a lot of reviews that were not too good before, I generally made some psychological preparations.
There's only one reason to want to see Superbody, and that's because of Scarlett Johansson, Luc Besson really has nothing to look forward to. However, Scarlett Johansson is in good shape and good shape, especially the role of Black Widow, which completely gives her a new life. So, we're looking forward to her performance in other action movies, like Superbody.
As it turns out, Scarlett Johansson's performance in Superbody is really good, although there are not many action scenes, but it is still clean and clean. Coupled with her image, like the blonde little white T in the stills, very handsome. Sexy with some competence, the so-called heroic and sassy. Especially if you don't have anything to do, you can get a beautiful pupil. It's awesome.
But apart from Scarlett Johansson, the film really has nothing to say. Luc Besson, including the films he supervised (hurricane rescues, etc.), has a characteristic that it is short, most of them are around 90 minutes, and some are even less than 90 minutes. Such movies are tightly paced, especially action movies, and it is very enjoyable to watch. Representative is the first "Hurricane Rescue", the story is simple, the goal is clear, the mile is clicking, 90 minutes to end the battle, painful!
Unfortunately, "Superbody" is not a real action movie. The biggest selling point of the film is not the gunfights and action scenes, but a brain-opening concept, the so-called human brain development percentage. As a result, the film is based on a hypothetical concept and divergent thinking as much as possible. If the brain is really fully utilized, what will people become? For example, superpowering, or deepening. This concept is too deep and too big, not to mention a small movie, even a book to talk about for a long time. Therefore, when "Superbody" continues the refinement of the previous Luc Besson-style films, the brain hole part is limited to concepts. Lack of explanation and foreshadowing, just very sloppy to let you see something new. I don't even want to explain anything, and in the end it can only be a god stick piece.
As a result, many of the film's fables and concepts are superficial and too casual. It's as if the randomly inserted animal world seems to want to introduce the story into a larger context, but in such a simple way that this parallelism only interrupts emotions and even laughter.
We don't have to wrestle with whether this theme is feasible or not. The problem is that using only such a short film to talk about such a big concept is inevitably very simple, and even there are many unreasonable places. And from the audience, no one really pays attention to this concept. It's better to just make an action movie, and it's good to fight and kill.