In recent years, Hollywood has turned out to be a big hot theme -
Youth dystopia.
A group of young people, and the resistance of the entire apocalyptic world, this kind of passionate setting, so that "The Hunger Games" and "Divergents" continue to harvest the box office.
But in terms of quality, it is still regrettable.
In this genre, there is a series that is silent, but unexpected, and impressive in the finale -
Moving The Labyrinth.
In the first "Moving Maze", the setting is very novel -
A group of teenagers are thrown into a high wall, and the only exit is a maze surrounded by cement walls, which is unpredictable and full of various monsters.
In the second part, the children rush out of the labyrinth and come to the apocalyptic world outside, a ruin, and they fight zombies again.
At that time, I thought it was a novel juvenile film, but I didn't expect it to be a complete series of movies.
After more than two years, "Moving Maze" ushered in its final chapter -
Moving Labyrinth 3: Antidote to Death
the maze runner: the death cure
"Moving Maze" is very popular with American youth, and the first film grossed more than $300 million at the global box office at a cost of $32 million.
But the youth of the Heavenly Dynasty did not want to see it, and the splash of water stirred up was very small.
The final chapter has a score of 7.1 on imdb, but Douban only has a pitiful 5.4 points, and there is a downward trend.
This made me out of the cinema to open the watercress, a fancy look of confusion.
this...... Obviously very good-looking.
The audience grabbed several major lightning points of the film, and really felt aggrieved by it, so let's give the evaluation together.
The story of the final chapter is very simple, a small friend is caught to draw blood as an antidote, and the protagonists want to break into the city to rescue him.
First of all, there is no objection to the setting of the big framework.
The film's doomsday scorched earth world is full of wasteland aesthetics, the world is destroyed, a ruin, and people build the last civilized city on the wasteland.
It has a "Blade Runner-style metropolis" feel.
The city is inhabited by high-end people who drive the low-end out of the walls, while they are constantly developing antidotes to fight viruses, zombies, and monsters.
The protagonists of the first two films, the youth, are the antidotes, who use cruel means to place children in beasts to continuously derive antibodies.
Wasteland aesthetics x doomsday survival, the most popular sci-fi theme, how to shoot will feel good, and then it depends on how the director fills it.
The mixture is the first controversy encountered by the film.
What to want in the film, monsters, zombies, "The Hunger Games", "Resident Evil", "Mad Max", this group of Hollywood running boy bands is stunned to run all over Hollywood genre films.
The new film begins with the classic train chase scene of Fast and Furious.
But although it is a mixture, it has never dropped the chain.
When I was blinded by "Rapid Shock", it was still very cool to see here, and the director also added his own new way of playing, but the enemy was not hard to fight, and directly used a helicopter to hang away.
In the later scene, the bus driven by the protagonists is besieged, and when they think they are not saved, they also drive the trailer and hang away.
I went, simple rough and brutal, would play.
The whole movie feels like burning a large amount of silver, in fact, the cost of this series is not high, but the special effects screen of each one is very exquisite.
At least this is many times stronger than the same type of film.
In "The Hunger Games" and "Divergents", the two major shortcomings of the love scene of dog blood and the rhythm grinding and twittering have been avoided.
Run at the beginning, until the end of the passion without panting.
But the rough and brutal gameplay also makes some viewers unhappy, and the protagonists are like hanging up, without any logic.
Jumping from such a tall building into a pool of water will not kill you;
"Too able to make up blindly, like the wall of the Three Gorges Dam, a pickup truck can be blown up, with an atomic bomb?"
Dude, which action blockbuster isn't anti-human, and it's not something I hang up when mortals go up?
Why don't you ask Wen Ziren why your car can fly?
Don't dream, but also make a Hollywood blockbuster.
Disgusted with the protagonist's opening and hanging, some people dislike it, and the director finally forcibly shoots it to death in order to let the character die.
Our British brother newt, a good friend of the male protagonist and a real female protagonist, was infected by the virus at the last moment to death.
It was heart-wrenching to receive this bento, and it was also regrettable that it could almost be saved.
But in fact, although the way these people die is speechless and buggy, in fact, everyone has his fate and ending.
Some people have been complaining, "I didn't see the maze, the net tm moved."
Open your eyes, the labyrinth is in the first part, and the last two parts, the labyrinth represents an element, representing the doomsday dystopian setting, in which people have collided and lost.
This is the layer of "Moving Maze", it is not just parkour fighting monsters, its genre is more like a science fiction literary film.
Looking at the science fiction masterpieces that have gone down in history, many of them are like this.
Blade Runner 2049
After the destruction and the big scene, there is also a sense of desolation and disillusionment.
The protagonist and his party sacrifice a lot for freedom every time.
It took years, sacrificing countless people to escape from the labyrinth, and to return to the wall for the sake of friends.
Saved this friend, but took another friend.
And their escape is also controversial, they can actually save the world.
They have destroyed hundreds of thousands of cities for the sake of dozens of friends.
The rulers of the city are cruel and use children as experiments, but the purpose is to save the whole world.
There is no absolute fault, there is no absolute right, with this contradiction and revisit the three movies, the experience will increase.
In fact, the tragic casualties are the fate of mankind.
Each maze eventually returns to its starting point.
It is said that a first-class novel cannot be a first-class movie, and the original author of this film is extremely grateful to the director for his restoration.
Luckily, with the "Moving Labyrinth" series, director Wes Ball became a hot rising star in Hollywood.
He once said this about his work -
"Shooting, this one is like filming Blade Runner, and what I am most satisfied with is that each film has its own unique temperament, just can be connected into a complete cinematic universe." 」
In the final chapter, we will find that the director's first two films are doing a good job of laying the groundwork, and even the setting that seemed to us to be very inexplicable at the time.
For example, the zombies in the second part, at that time, I thought that such a good theme how to run to play zombies again.
But now it will be understood that the director cut out unnecessary branches in the original book and presented it in the simplest genre, and in the end we find that the huge, complete, disillusioned doomsday worldview is thus constructed.
From the labyrinth, to the desert, to the city, Wes Ball is getting better and better than the other, like a bullfrog director.
While "Moving Labyrinth" is far less successful than Blade Runner 2049, the young director has the same great potential as Bullfrog.
Look at the new work he is preparing, "The Fall of the Gods", a masterpiece of Norse mythology, the same grand pattern.
No matter how many people like it now, how many people sneer at it, but always feel that this goods can not be exported in the future, what earth-shattering anti-human blockbusters can be exported.