Because of the easing of the epidemic, theaters that have gradually resumed work have ushered in many fixed movies, and "Jedi X-Men 3" is one of them.
As the name suggests, "Jedi X-Men 3" is the third in the "Jedi X-Men" series of movies, and speaking of its ancestors, it was also the well-known reputation of ten miles and eight villages.
In 1995, "Jedi X-Men" turned out to be, starring two third-rate actors, directed by second-rate directors, investing only $23 million, which earned $65.8 million in the United States and $140 million worldwide, which is one of the miracles of Hollywood.
Will Smith knocked on the door of Hollywood with this film, and since then the film has continued: "Independence Day", "Men in Black", "Boxer Ali" and so on.
And Martin Lawrence, who was already a little famous, also became a blockbuster and expanded a lot of business.
Michael Bay's screen debut took a crucial step from an obscure advertising director and mv director to a top hollywood action commercial film director.
He used this to create his signature explosive aesthetic style, which laid the foundation for the Transformers series that would later become popular around the world.
Eight years later, "Jedi X-Men 2" released a hero order, three partners who had not worked together for many years got together again, and the three newcomers in the industry at that time had now grown into the industry's independent big guys.
Of course, the cost is higher, and the more exquisitely produced "Jedi X-Men 2" also lives up to expectations, and it won the North American box office weekly champion on the release, and the word-of-mouth box office double harvest, handing over a good answer sheet.
Seventeen years after Jedi X-Men 2, Jedi X-Men 3 was brought to the screen again.
However, unlike the previous two films, the original solid iron triangle missed one of the key, director Michael Bay.
The plot of the third part follows the story of the second part more than a decade later.
In the second part, the Mexican drug king's wife escapes from prison after poisoning, and then sends her son to the door, and two shots Mike (Will Smith) to the hospital.
Then the drug dealer's wife begins a revenge show, asking her son to kill all the police officers associated with a case many years ago, and to kill them one by one in front of Shi Huang.
At this time, the most bloody plot came.
With the help of Marcus (Martin Lawrence), Mike and the son of the poison queen after several confrontations, he suddenly discovers that the poison queen is his old lover more than twenty years ago.
Shi Huang, who had just come out of the police academy more than twenty years ago, was selected to become an undercover agent of the drug lord gang, and Mike, who entered the drug den, became the driver of the drug queen.
The poison queen taught Mike how to talk, dress, and walk, which can be said to be the poison that created the current McLaughley, and finally the two got closer and closer, and even had the crystallization of love.
In the end, Shi Huang chose justice, sent his beloved woman to prison, and then restored his identity as a policeman for decades.
And the poisoner who came to the door many years later to seek revenge was actually the illegitimate son of Shi Huang.
(This plot is quite similar to the story of Ang Lee's "Twin Killers", and friends who have seen it should be quite familiar.) ）
In the final battle, the bastard son, who finally knew the truth, sacrificed his life to take justice and blocked a shot shot from his mother for his father.
After the poison, he was shot and killed by the Houlang team members who arrived later, and the illegitimate son was also treated, and the perfect ending was achieved.
The earliest to see Douban 5.7 points, the mainland 18 days of release box office only 35 million, the old gray subconsciously think that this is a bad film that sells feelings and rice.
And the mind has automatically made up the picture of the Emperor Martin's twilight years of planning to join forces to fry cold rice, and Michael Bay cherishes the feathers and righteously rejects them.
When I watched the movie, I found out that the reason why this movie reached a 5.7 score under the comments of Douban 2w+ people.
1. The second general of the hum ha who is difficult to defeat the years
The duo that was giggling all day and always being evenly matched has changed this time.
In the previous game, Shi Huang is usually responsible for most of the action scenes, while Martin takes on most of the funny tasks, and the two always have endless nonsense, infinite vitality, and add up to form an action + comedy + drama.
And this time the fat Marcus could not move, he had a new identity, a grandfather who believed in Jesus.
The same habit of throwing up easily, the familiar chatter, and the funny as always.
Mike whitened his beard, and he used a black beard to cover up the traces of time passing by him.
But he is still grumpy, still charismatic, still full of combat effectiveness.
The 52-year-old Shi Huang is still very hard, jumping off the building to chase people, jumping helicopters are personally on the battlefield.
There is no denying that both Shi Huang and Martin are old.
Martin's play scenes in the film are basically zero, and the main scenes are gags.
Although Shi Huang is still very hardworking, it is difficult to speak the same as more than twenty years ago, whether it is muscle state or strength speed.
2. Decent backwave supporting role group
In addition to the twilight of the protagonist duo, the film's personnel ratio has also changed greatly.
"Jedi X-Men 3" is no longer a one-man show of two lone heroes, and there are many more supporting roles in the film
(I found that this version of the translator is definitely from Taiwan, don't be too locomotive)
The advantage of the appearance of the back wave on the police side is to solve the problem of the lack of combat strength of the two old guys and provide strong fire support.
The back wave on the other side is Mike's illegitimate son.
The appearance of the bastard is full of all the fighting skills, and most of the action scenes and famous scenes in the film are shown by him and Shi Huang.
Although the bastard is set up as "the other Mike Laurie", he fails to show his father's five-time success in the two previous films in the film, and the sniper rifle is very slippery.
Looking at the ending, the film seems to have plans to make a sequel, if there is a fourth part, it is expected to achieve the picture of father and son soldiers on the front and remote technical support for Uncle Martin.
But I have to admit that not everyone has the charm of Shi Huang and Martin when they were young.
The appearance of the mediocre post-wave did not bring much fresh vitality to the film, but instead reflected the twilight of the bad boys more poignantly.
3. Michael Bay, who has been quiet
Obviously, it is a movie of three people, but I can never have a name.
Because of the conflict between Michael Bay's schedules, the Iron Triangle in the first two films now has only two starring actors left.
Of course, strictly speaking, Michael Bay is not completely gone, and he also made a cameo appearance in the movie.
It's not just Michael Bay who disappears, but also his explosive aesthetic style.
From the first and second parts of "Jedi X-Men" to the third part, the audience can clearly feel the change in the style of station chases, gun battles, and explosion scenes.
Many people may think that Michael Bay's movies are brainless explosions, explosions, explosions.
But in fact, the same explosion scene, different shots present a different effect of cloud mud.
Michael Bay's explosion scene has a distinctive feature, first zooming in on the details of the close-up description and then pulling the long-range view.
His explosion strives for visual effects, textured, from near and far, like the decay of fireworks.
Compared with the two previous works, the biggest difference between "Jedi X-Men 3" is the obvious lack of big explosion scenes.
However, the small explosion scene in the film is also blown up in a disorderly way, and it looks like a huge fire ball generated by burning air.
In addition, there is also a gap between "Jedi X-Men 3" and the car battle scenes of the previous game.
In jedi X-Men 2, a nearly five-minute long car battle, it is definitely not a fantasy to say that the adrenaline rush is soaring, and even "Fast and Furious" is eclipsed in front of it.
And when it comes to "Jedi X-Men 3", although you can feel that the crew has invited a lot of stuntmen to play some bells and whistles.
But it seems that there is always no excitement, but it reminds the old gray of the time when he played gta5.
In addition, you have to ask if there is any emotional element in the movie, it actually has it.
In order to make up for the lack of action scenes, the film added a lot of emotional scenes to Shi Huang and Martin.
Therefore, the tone of the film can be seen from the name, from "bad boys" and "bad boys 2" to "bad boys for life".
"Bad boys for life", the life of bad boys. This means that the film's story is no longer absolutely focused on the bad boys, they will also grow old and become elders.
The film does not deliberately sell feelings, but seeing the scene where Martin dyes Shi Huang's beard in the hospital, there are still some mixed feelings.
It is undeniable that without Michael Bay's explosive aesthetic, the visual effects presented by Jedi X-Men are not as shocking and exhilarating as its two predecessors.
But the film's brisk pace, the pressing and relaxed atmosphere, and the familiar gag chatter of Shi Huang and Martin have shown full vitality and entertainment, which is probably why the film has maintained more than 96% of the Popcorn Index on Rotten Tomatoes for a long time.
So overall, although the movie "Jedi X-Men 3" can't be called good, it is definitely not bad, and it should still have a score of 6.5-7.0 in the old discouragement.
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