Regardless of the reputation of [Death Squad], there are still a lot of fans who like this kind of tough action movie, and the box office can still be conservative in droughts and floods. Silvester Stallone came to this tough guy lineup, which is very dreamy and inevitably makes people lament that Lian Po is old, and now he can only use the crowded tactics. It is cool to watch the tough guys line up on the poster, and it is inevitable that people worry about the difficulty of directing the group show. Even if the script is designed for everyone's personality and weapons at the beginning, it is still a technical job when the director implements it. Unfortunately, the [Expendables] Except for Jason Statham and Jet Li, the others are all reduced to cannon fodder. How does this fantasy lineup look like bluffing?
We don't doubt Stallone's ambition and ability. The screenwriter [Rocky] was nominated for Oscars 30 years ago, and the [Expendables] script of this group drama is also quite satisfactory. Tough guys of all colors divide up the amount of lines according to their own fame. During the period, there were also Mickey Locke, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger who came to make soy sauce. Except for these three famous actors, the recognition of the other actors is still too low for the audience, and the low ones are just as hard to remember as their roles in the film. As a team that maintains the excellent genes of traditional tough guy action movies, there are jokes, pick-ups, brotherhood, and secret fights between brothers in the script. Of course, the more important thing is the action scenes that do not need to be completed by computer actors. Jason Statham and Jet Li each contributed a small climax, and the difficult scenes that Statham completed on the plane were even more exciting than the movie climax at the end. But in the eyes of viewers spoiled by special effects, these are not as amazing as the fast-moving handsome vampires in [Twilight].
Jason Statham’s "Little Li Flying Knife" is impressive. As for Jet Li’s speedy fighting without stealing the bell, it always seems so funny. After all, everyone is blasting with a pistol, and Li is alone. It always seems so not monotonous. In addition to these two protagonists, it is really difficult to figure out what other tough guys are good at. It is estimated that the more difficult thing is to see the details of the action scenes. [The Expendables] action movies have the roughness of a tough guy. The beauty of the picture is not the most important for photography, but the important movement speed. For example, Statham teaches his lover’s bastard boyfriend in basketball. The camera is always a fast-moving middle shot. Before the audience can see clearly, he sees a group of men being put to the ground by Statham. Most movie action scenes are handled in this way. This is not just portable photography and quick cut. The key is that the scenes are mostly medium shots and small shots. In addition to the irregularities of the picture, you want to see clearly in large-scale action scenes. What happens here depends on your eyesight.
The roughness of photography really matches the aura of these tough guys, but apart from these dazzling and tiring shots, the [Death Squad] has nothing to praise. A tough guy is like the Transformers in Michael Bay’s lens. Almost all of them are used for propaganda. Stallone’s ability to direct group dramas is just like the details in the action scenes of the film, even if it is very hard to pay attention to. [The Expendables] action scene is still inevitably compared with the Bonn series and the recent [Agent Shao Te]. The former’s portable photography, fast editing, and scene scheduling have always influenced the current Hollywood movies of the same type. The latter’s good reputation lies in the role-building, and the only thing left in this film is a tragic tough guy.
For such a movie, it is a bit difficult to expect a tough guy to be funny, but is it necessary to have a strong and tender feeling? I thought that Jason Statham was the only one in charge of picking up girls. I didn't expect Stallone in the last twilight of the film and Sandra, the only female commander, staged a relationship between young and old. Don't expect Jet Li, who wants to make more money to marry and have children, and other people will not receive this treatment. These tough guys all have their own rules of survival and are good at destroying them, but how they look like people, they are fearless and have no weaknesses. These days, even superheroes like to show off their dark side, so how come these tough guys still maintain a traditional glorious image? Unexpectedly, this group of tough guys turned danger everywhere, went into a tiger's den, went through several fierce battles, defeated bad guys, rescued hostages, won love, and retreated. It seems that the tough guy will never die, even if it has become immortal in the eyes of the audience!
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