After 11 years, one of the most famous French IP series movies "Taxi Express" ushered in the 5th part, for some reasons, the film had no choice but to change roles, but the film encountered Waterloo, and the rating fell from more than 7 points in the series to 5.4, becoming a veritable bad film.
In fact, the series of movies to change the protagonist has always been a big taboo, the original protagonist's image has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, suddenly changed the protagonist, for the audience, just like a movie, it is difficult to get praise.
So is Waterloo, the fifth part of the series, really supposed to be carried by the lead actor? Obviously not, carefully deconstructed, you will find that the failure of "Taxi Express 5" is actually an objective necessity.
This is not only the problem encountered by the taxi series, most of the series of movies have similar problems, that is, they encounter the aesthetic fatigue of the audience, and the evaluation is not as good as one.
Twenty years ago, the first installment of the Taxi series was arguably a surprise on the market, combining comedy, racing, and crime solving to form a distinctive style film, thanks to the skill of screenwriter Luc Besson. At that time, it seemed that this was the only one that could combine these elements so interestingly.
So the first installment of Taxi Express had a rating of 7.8, which is pretty good for an easy-to-unzipped popcorn movie. But the audience is not satisfied with the same thing, the first and second parts remain at 7.8, the third part is 7.3, the fourth part is 7, and the scores have declined all the way, which reflects the declining satisfaction of the audience.
The film style of changing the soup without changing the medicine makes the audience slowly lose their original passion and interest.
The series of movies is declining, is the responsibility all on the phenomenon of "aesthetic fatigue"? In fact, it is not, but the result of competition. When good movies appear on the market, there will be imitators and challengers, and the audience's appreciation level will increase invisibly. The audience will no longer be satisfied with the original routine of the film, but will ask for the innovation of the work.
Similar phenomenon, our domestic film market has appeared in a classic, "Ip Man 4". The Ip Man series has gone through 11 years and finally filmed the final chapter, and came a perfect ending. But in fact, if you look at the original evaluation, you will find that the first three parts of the Ip Man series have actually been declining, and the score of the third part is only 6.4. The last "Ip Man 4" successfully won back the reputation, why?
It is not that Ip Man can play more, but on the basis of Ip Man, the fourth part pays more attention to the relationship between the characters, the emotions of the characters and the values of the characters, which are breakthroughs and innovations for the original series, so the audience buys it, and the audience affirms the emotional sales of the last part.
Therefore, the decline of the series of movies is not fate, the focus is still on how to shoot, rather than shooting according to the original routine. And "Taxi Express 5" just used the original routine to shoot, perhaps the director wants to pay tribute to the classic, but did not expect the audience not to buy it.
"Taxi Express 5" is still using those pompous and not funny French laughs as a selling point, such as the opening chase scene, the front car passenger vomiting on the rear car window of the disgusting scene, my personal perception is how disgusting and disgusting, not funny at all.
Daniel's nephew couldn't drive at all, and then didn't know why he was a part of the police force, with a blunt logic and completely funny for the sake of being funny. There is no improvement in the drag racing scene in the movie, and it feels that the previous drag racing shot can be replaced by editing it, or the narrow French street, or the modified 407.
Lamborghini also did not feel very powerful, the bad guys are basically a group of mentally retarded, not how easy to be ko. When the 407 flew onto the ship, it didn't encounter any decent resistance.
There is also the setting of criminals running away after robbery is also quite boring and deliberate, according to this logic, criminals all over the world should buy a supercar, you can dump the police a few streets, too ridiculous.
The look and feel of the whole movie is that it seems that it has not yet entered the main topic, and it is found that the story has been hastily ended, the diamonds have been chased back, and the reunion ending is extremely boring.
"Taxi Express 5" is not useless, there are many homages to the previous game clips and characters, if you are a fan of the taxi series, you may be able to find a lot of Easter eggs in this work. But as far as an independent film is concerned, the film seems a bit outdated, 11 years later, there is almost no progress, it is really unimaginable.
Obviously not, from the above analysis you can probably know the core problem of this movie, no innovative routine is the key, the movie looks like a small production, the plot is flat, the whole movie has almost no climax, like a glass of boiling water.
Changing roles is not the core issue, the director and screenwriter are the real core responsible. This reminds me of an IP TV series "Will Night 2" recently released in China, the night 2 is also a change of protagonist, and even the supporting roles have been greatly changed, causing a lot of complaining, but frankly speaking, the actor may not really be the core problem.
The look and feel of "Will Night 2" is not as simple as changing an actor, but it feels like watching a TV series that has nothing to do with "Will Night 1", which is completely incompatible, and the entire sense of quality has declined several times. This feeling is exactly the same as the look and feel of Taxi Express 5.
Therefore, "Will Night 2" and "Taxi Express 5" are considered to have ruined the previous work, and the main responsibility is still on the director and screenwriter, and the storyline, innovation, etc. of the entire work are the core points that the audience does not buy.
The highlight of the taxi series is actually the scene of the street drag chase, that modified 407 is very cool, but it has been filmed 5 times, and this car is not allowed to retire, which is really excessive. In addition to the 407 in "Taxi Express 5", it is an ordinary civilian Mercedes and a Lamborghini, which is not fresh at all.
Frankly speaking, as long as you know how to point the car knows, in france these winding narrow alleys racing, Lamborghini this kind of supercar is simply not able to play its own advantages, and now the audience's eyes are open, Lamborghini is not unusual, the downstairs of the home can see a speeding car from time to time. Can't you get a few cool, niche, bespoke vehicles?
So "Taxi Express 5" really makes people feel that they hate iron and steel, and a good series of IP is destroyed into a bad movie, which is really a pity.
Maybe the original protagonist, Sammy Nasseli, is old and inappropriate, and the role change is understandable, but the role change is not a reasonable reason for the movie to become a bad movie. The key to "Taxi Express 5" becoming a bad film is still in the director and screenwriter, the plot is vulgar, full of routines is the core of the film's failure, a so good IP, it is really a pity.