"Extreme" gameplay with no lower limit?

Dannie 2021-12-20 08:01:06

Taking advantage of the previous hot spy comedies [Female Spy] and [Ace Agent], the spy comedies of the past two years have returned to the market one after another, setting off a trend of restoration of similar themes.

MI6 secret agent (played by Mark Strong) and his brother (played by Sasha Byron Cohen) were separated since childhood. Years later, the two met while his younger brother was on a mission. The two who were chased escaped all the way and staged a nonsensical comedy. The drama is to work together to destroy the villain's huge conspiracy.

The plot of [Spy Ace] sounds lackluster and follows the usual character setting of spy comedy theme: stupid male protagonist and shrewd and capable male protagonist, sing one and make "laughing" fruit, this kind of routine is not uncommon and unsatisfactory.

Looking back at the hot spy-themed comedy in 2015, [Female Spy] and [Ace Agent] are both innovations based on the tribute to the classic spy movies in the traditional industrial template. The female agent in [Female Spy] combines the characteristics of self-darkness and weirdness, and the dramatic effect created by the talk show-style nonsensical style mix and match with fat girls is remarkable; [Ace Agent] is fusing the [007] series and [agents] On the basis of the number of ways of the college], it is compatible with the characteristics of the Cult movie: at the end, the big villain explodes the bomb on the human mind, and everyone’s head blooms into a mushroom cloud in the shape of fireworks. The characteristics of the card are brought to the extreme, so that the audience and the director are excited to the boiling point. The female agent in [Female Agent] combines the characteristics of self-blacking and weirdness, and jokingly subverts the traditional agent movies. For example, it is embarrassing every time a move is made, and the drama of highway chasing takes this to the extreme. [Ace Agent] is a fusion of the [007] series and [Secret Service Academy], and is compatible with the characteristics of the Cult movie: at the end, the big villain explodes the bomb on the human mind, and everyone’s head blooms into a firework shape. The scene of Mushroom Cloud has brought into full play the characteristics of cult movies that do not count the cards according to the way, so that the audience and the director are excited together to the boiling point. However, the old bone spirit of the British gentleman retained in the movie as a whole still fascinates many "ascetic" fans and uncles to death.

However, in [Ace Spy], the characteristics of the B-level film are too much demonstrated, giving up all narrative logic and traditional ways, and playing is a "cool" and a "hi". The hot shots of the chase at the beginning of the film are out of order, the editing is messy, the botched scenes and special effects make people travel to the next CCTV ten sets of "Mystery Case Tracking" in minutes, and the freshness of the first-view lens shooting is also It is completely offset by the messy editing effect.

In the most tasteful scene in the film, the two brothers hide in the elephant’s genitals in the face of the enemy’s pursuit, and the two are tortured to death by the elephant’s mating. It has achieved the "evil taste" of disgusting people. The director seems to vent his own taste to the fullest and at the same time deliberately cater to the tastes of some audiences nowadays, even ignoring the suspicion that such an "extreme" is excessive.



Political ridicule is the highlight. In the


movie, Daniel Radcliffe and Donald Trump are used to ridicule Daniel Radcliffe and Donald Trump. The entertainment industry and celebrities have always been the objects of comedy movies. The film is not clever at this point. The screenwriter seems to try to use AIDS to refer to the two people’s usual unruly and romantic life, but AIDS, a social issue that is more sensitive nowadays, is being used to tease, which makes people can’t help but laugh. Besides, it seemed a bit embarrassing. The repeated appearance of the same bridge also makes people slightly aesthetically fatigued. Inviting such a passerby actor with almost zero closeness to act as a public figure, the skill of the makeup artist is also worrying.

As the Middle East peace ambassador, Lomo was accidentally shot at the beginning of the film. His HIV was presented to the audience in slow motion, creating a strong comedic effect, and was interrupted by his brother’s disrespectful swearing during the performance. Both show that the director himself is trying his best to ridicule the current international political situation, as well as a slightly harsh and true expression of the real discriminatory attitude of the United States under the superficial hypocrisy of the Middle East.

At the end, the peace representative was executed for the murder of an MI6 agent and appeared on the news page, chanting "I hate peace." On the one hand, this absurd plot arrangement is joking, and on the other hand, it has become the only remarkable black humor plot in the film. Compared with the unrestricted and vulgar plot throughout the movie, it stands out.


Female characters are getting more and more tasteless

Thinking about two thousand years ago, the [Powers Ace] and [Pink Panther] series, also starring comedians, show off the unrestricted meaty and nonsensical funny, and use the essential femme fatale female characters in the film noir. Setting, in today's spy comedy, it seems that there are many male and male CPs, while the femme fatale characters in traditional spy movies are all reduced to cutscenes.

Regardless of the number of scenes, these "femme beauties" were first defeated by the eye-catching elements of rot in the audiovisual stimulus, and they were completely reduced to soy sauce-level high-level "vase".

When the above two films deconstructed traditional agent films, they fully magnified the basic corruption culture that prevailed after two thousand years. Female images leapt to the second place. Even the female villains who played a larger role in [Female Agents] were mostly revealed. This embarrassment to match the unreasonable effect of the movie. This is even more obvious in this [Ace Spy]. The female villains played by Penelope are very few, and the scenes are extremely far-fetched, barely playing the role of a movie transfer scene, such a Spanish goddess. It's probably out of a joking attitude rather than acting purpose to be deceitful.

The nonsense of the movie is magnified to the extreme, but I don't know what humor is. And all the sensational flashback passages interspersed in have become a slightly calming passage in the film. But perhaps we were frightened by the previous plot. When we see sensational passages, we will always worry about whether another inadvertent spoof will suddenly strike in the next second. This is what is more embarrassing than the laughs made by movies.

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Extended Reading
  • Genoveva 2022-03-22 09:01:59

    I think Uncle Mark Strong has a sort of ego push. //The director is actually French.

  • Lavonne 2022-04-23 07:02:29

    Who wants to watch the live-action version of South Park in the theater, or the version with negative IQ...OMG...Stupid brother achieved the achievement of eight Voldemort movies in three seconds, the Dark Lord was hacked so badly

The Brothers Grimsby quotes

  • Nobby: [from trailer] I love you.

    Carla: I love you too.

    Nobby: [they both climax, and Norman turns to the owner of the bed] We'll take it.

  • Nobby: [upon discovering the joy of shooting a gun] I gotta get one of these for the kids!