On October 29, "007: No Time to Die" was released, which was full of audience expectations.
Over the past 59 years, the 007 series has launched a total of 25 films. It has become one of the world's longest-lived and most influential IP, and also the top IP of the United Kingdom, known as the "Star Wars" of the United States.
The film is the curtain call of "007" male protagonist Daniel Craig, and it is also the farewell work of the sixth generation Bond.
The heroine Leia Saidu, the winner of the best newcomer actress at the Cannes Film Festival, has superb acting skills and prosperous beauty, which is the favorite of countless fans.
Director Kerry Fukunaga, representative works "Beast of No Bounds", "Jane Eyre" and the divine drama "True Detective".
Soundtrack Hans Zimmer, masterpiece "Interstellar".
But unfortunately, "007: No Time to Die" lost both domestic word of mouth and box office.
Douban was only 7 points, and the box office was also mediocre, with only 50 million on the first day of release, far lower than the 378 million on the first day of the release of "Fast and Furious 9".
What's so wrong with the film? Poison King takes you to find out.
01 Messy plot
The opening is scary enough.
When the snow was falling and the woman complained about her husband to her daughter Madeleine, the masked killer quietly arrived.
The woman was killed, and the daughter was driven by the killer to the ice lake, and her life and death were uncertain.
Years later, Madeleine grew up, became a couple with Bond, and lived in seclusion.
But when Bond "says goodbye" to the grave of his former Bond girl, Wesper, the Ghost Party suddenly appears to kill him.
Bond suspects madeleine of her association with the Ghost Party and betrays him.
Bond, threatened with death, sent Madeleine away and went on vacation to a new place.
This walk is five years.
These plots seem to leave a lot of mysteries.
For example, who is the person wearing the mask? Why would anyone want to hunt down Bond? Is Madeleine really related to the Ghost Party?
But these problems do not stand up to scrutiny in terms of character building and thematic narrative.
The influence of the Masked Man on Madeleine was not discussed later. It started with a gimmick.
For Bond, it doesn't matter who hunts him down. Otherwise, how could he have gone on vacation again.
Later, several members of the Ghost Party armed to the teeth broke into the government's biological laboratory and stole the biological weapon Hercules.
Hercules is a genetic weapon that can quickly wipe out tens of millions of people.
To this end, Bond's friend Dr. Swann invites Bond to come out of the mountains and retake Hercules, but Bond, who is bent on retreat, does not agree.
Who knows, the members of the Ghost Party actually killed Dr. Swann, and Bond was very sad and decided to go out of the mountain.
Fans say that Bond and Dr. Swann are good brothers, and Bond is back in the jianghu for the sake of his brothers.
But in the film, the two do not have any emotional foreshadowing. Let the audience watch this film, first watch a few prequels to do their homework, which is really higher.
Unable to see the emotions of the two, Bond's sadness and acceptance of the task are also inexplicable. For the sake of the brothers against the Ghost Party, Bond's image of "dedicating himself to the nation" no longer exists. The audience does not believe in the story, and naturally does not believe the characters and fall in love with the characters.
02 Commercial enclosure
As a commercial film, the fragrant car beauty and gun battle car chase scene in "007: No Time to Die" are in place.
In the chase scene in the Italian mountain city, Bond fights a dozen people alone, and the motorcycle flies directly to the wall.
When surrounded, Bond drove a special luxury car, allowing the other party to "bang bang", and the bulletproof glass still could not be penetrated. Bond pushed a button, the car turned on 360 degrees in place, and the machine gun swept through the field, hitting the opponent badly.
With another button, the car spat out white smoke and Bond escaped.
Bond is forced into the forest by the villain, and by pulling a rope alone, he kills the enemy's n Land Rovers.
The bomb exploded in his ear, and Bond only had a few seconds of tinnitus before immediately entering the fight.
The fight scenes in the film were exciting, but they didn't touch me. I knew that Bond would not lose. His motivations for his actions also failed to make me empathize.
When Bond fights for the first time, he has a grudge against Madeleine, is not nervous about his lover, and he is confident of himself.
After learning that he had a daughter, Bond did not show much concern. When rescuing her daughter, it is not an exaggeration to say that she saved someone else's child.
Netizens commented, "Bond kicked away the heroine, never raised a child, apologized a few years later, said a few soft words to ice the previous suspicions, and then made a breakfast for the child, picked up a toy, the person is actually a good father, too ridiculous." ”
All of Bond's character motivations are basically derived from "love".
Because of the misunderstanding of Madeleine, he lived in seclusion for 5 years, returned to his agent status because of the death of his friend, and because the child was taken away by the villain to destroy the villain base.
Even Bond died because he was infected with a strange virus. As long as he makes contact with Madeleine or his daughter, the other person will die. Bond couldn't bear to do this and died generously.
Perhaps the intention of the screenwriter is to make Bond more "flesh and blood" through the emotional line, like an ordinary person. But all "love" is suspended and unconvincing.
03 Weak villain
Villainy is a must for a good movie, and the writers of 007: No Time to Die seem to be aware of that.
The screenwriter added to the villain boss Rami Marek's original family problems such as "the whole family was killed" and "grew up in a drug factory"; on the makeup, Rami Marek's entire face was full of faint capillaries, which made people shudder.
But the villain's motivation for destroying humanity is "I just want the scene to be clean." ”
The villain's skills are even weaker to the extreme, Wen does not see any tricks, and Wu has no combat effectiveness, which weakens the watchability of the film.
The villain's painstaking business for many years was easily destroyed by Bond alone.
At the end of the movie, many people watched the subtitles before leaving, and everyone tacitly waited for the Easter egg.
But unfortunately, there are no Easter eggs.
The sixth generation bond is old and over.
Mercy is characteristic of Bond, but women's issues are prevalent today. Bond will not change, and may be scolded.
Bond original author Ian Fleming said that he created 007 because he felt that the world situation was ever-changing, but the plot and positive resistance provided by spy wars and action movies at that time were far behind the times, and the meaning behind 007 was obviously far greater than a personal hero image.
Today, the world situation is a far cry from the cold war. 007 began to fall in love, love family, and want to retire. The 007 series became Hurricane Rescue, it became Fast and Furious, but it was no longer itself.
Perhaps, this is the root cause of the unsightly appearance of 007: No Time to Die.
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