It is still my favorite action film series, and it still has that kind of ancient dragon-style martial arts interest, and any other action film can't catch up. But this one is not as good as the first two in general, so I probably won't watch it again. Talk about the advantages and disadvantages.
Pros:
Force grid is still the ceiling of the killer movie. There are a lot of formal and stylized shots, for example, riding a motorcycle with a katana. For example, cutting the passage of ballet and killer breakthrough together. For example, John has continued the personal setting of "can speak a little in any language".
The consistent advantage of this series, Shaw's style of middle shot does not rely entirely on actors' performance and scheduling to show action scenes. Still a high level.
At the beginning, I fled to a gun shop and found that the bullets did not match the caliber of the gun. The gun was temporarily changed. The last bullet carefully turned the wheel to ensure that it was loaded. When the door was opened and turned around, it was a standard cowboy duel posture with a headshot. This is the pinnacle of the killer movie.
At the beginning of The Adjudicator, I didn't like this character, and felt it was a badass, but in the end, the whole film has maintained the compelling format, and I gradually like it. It didn't fall into the typical cliche of "forcing a very high level at the beginning and finally being beaten out of poop and urine".
When the role of Jerome Flynn in Casablanca (that is, Bologne in Game of Thrones) began to talk about the relationship between the killer organization and the sect of the elderly in Hassan, when the elder cut off the ring finger, Ma's trance felt like an Assassin's Creed fan movie. Do you want to link the worldview?
In the period when we went out with Harry Berry, each shot was deliberately stretched very long, and there was a sense of dazzling "you see how awesome our schedule is". Especially the dog part is added. Anyone who knows a little movie will know how difficult it is to shoot animal scenes. This section is really awesome.
I flipped through imdb to make sure that the one who played the doctor is the one who played the locksmith in Hacker 2 back then. I looked familiar before. Okay, 4 is it going to invite Trinity? (Why didn't Harry Berry invite Trinity for the role?)
The High Table Special Forces attacking the Continental Hotel had a sense of the EVA theater version of the Strategic Self-Defense Force attacking the headquarters of Nerv.
What is particularly interesting is that all the people who answer the phone in the headquarters are decorated with all kinds of special coquettish decorations. The one who wears two lip rings and glasses and answers the phone seriously is particularly compelling. The compelling style of this film is actually reflected in such details.
Cons:
Finally understood why no one asked Harry Berry to act. In this film, she is the biggest deduction item, she has no aura, like a neurotic middle-aged woman. It doesn't match the high-cold style of the whole film at all.
In the action part, in fact, the outstanding performance of John Wick's action part lies in this kind of real CQB display, which is clean and cool. It has an innate limitation, and once it gets bigger and bigger, it becomes particularly fake. 1 is very brilliant, 2 looks quite appropriate (it's a bit fake), 3 is already too large, and the action scene is tedious and boring. Both 1 and 2 have a particularly detailed display of the characteristics of the weapons used. How the weapon characteristics are combined with the action scenes, there is basically no in 3, you can't see what gun he uses, and you drive Wushuang all the way. Boring.
The story of 3 makes no sense. The elder of High Table is an Arab prince? This is obviously not enough! Ask him to go back and kill Winston, and then Winston suddenly turned against High Table and then turned back? The reversal is all unprepared.
In the period when we went out with Harry Berry, each shot was deliberately stretched very long, and there was a sense of dazzling "you see how awesome our schedule is". This paragraph is both pro and con. After being stretched, it is particularly boring. One problem with this film is that it was given. There is a feeling that the director "I will give you this all if you want to watch this", which is actually wrong. The source of John Wick's coolness is actually that he is simple and no nonsense.
The last duel is a bit repeated with 2.
The High Table special forces that attacked the Continental Hotel were too inadequate. I originally thought that the high table was forced to be high, but the result was all cannon fodder. It's a pity that I don't even have a clear shot of the weapons and shapes. My brain supplement should be DEVGRU wearing a pure black combat uniform, wearing a four-eye night vision goggles, and a nightcrawler. The result is that the gun is equipped with a tactical flashlight, for fear that others will not see you. And all of them feel skinny, and they feel like they can't afford a cosplay in a well-equipped military house.
Finally, rebel against High Table? In fact, there is no progress in the expansion of the world view in the third episode, nor has it demonstrated a larger High Table power structure. Maybe the fourth episode...
That's pretty much it.
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