Popcorn belongs to popcorn, even entertainment films are divided into high and low, and "Special Action" can be said to be passable in this type of film, but there is still a long way to go with the word "excellent".
The need to change the positioning does not mean that even the kernel must be discarded
From the beginning of "Fast 1" at the beginning of the century to now, this series has launched 9 films, and the pattern of the film is constantly expanding, from the beginning of the small gangster street racing crime film to the one who sneaks into the military area to save the world at every turn. Special Agent Movie".
Of course, this is actually a very normal operation. After all, with the expansion of the series, the world view must be expanded. If it is all based on those few racing streets, it is impossible to shoot things over and over again.
And this "Special Action" is to further expand the world view, but it has to be said that the effect is very inconsistent.
The "Fast" series has never lacked sci-fi elements, such as the "Sky Eye" that appeared in "Fast 7", but the series has always understood the distinction between primary and secondary, and there can be some sci-fi elements, but the overall classification of the movie is still action movies .
Therefore, even if there is a futuristic technology such as "Sky Eye", "Quick and Furious" mainly plays all kinds of dazzling racing cars and exciting action scenes.
But in the movie "Special Action", it is the first time that the elements of "racing" and "action" in the entire series have been suppressed by "science fiction".
The car chase scene in the film is designed to be very simple. For viewers who have watched countless crime films, police and bandit films and other action films, this overly simple car chase scene is actually a waste of time. This can also be seen in "Special Action". 》From the beginning, there was no intention to focus on the "speed" aspect.
As for the action scenes, not to mention, the villain BOSS is a fortified person similar to Captain America, full of sci-fi elements, but it can actually be seen that the producers are perfunctory to the action scenes.
It's a very simple reason, since the boss is a reinforcement person, it is much easier to design action scenes. The screenwriters of two ordinary human action scenes also need to consider not to make them too outrageous, but a reinforcement person, even if he is hit by a car No problem.
Therefore, "Special Action" looks, in fact, the action scenes are not bad, but it always gives people a very strange feeling.
Although it is only a rumor, it is still a film belonging to the "Fast and Furious" series. In order to expand the world view, "Special Action" abandoned the two elements of "speed" and "passion" , and used "science fiction" and " sci-fi" instead . Chaoying (superhero)” instead, the attitude is also quite perfunctory, how can it make the audience not feel violated?
embarrassing drama
Generally speaking, for a commercial entertainment popcorn movie, the audience's requirements for its plot are not too high, as long as there are no places that are too forced or embarrassing.
For the movie "Special Action", the action scenes account for about 75% of the whole film , so there are very few literary dramas themselves. Basically, it is only necessary to make a transition to connect various parts of the martial arts drama, and make the original simple story. The ins and outs can be explained clearly.
It's a pity that, perhaps because there are very few literary dramas, the producers are basically in a state of emptying this part , so that the whole story has quite a few inconsistencies.
Typically, the heroine Hattie was injected with a virus. At 30 hours, she found that she would die if she did not destroy the virus within 42 hours. So in the remaining 12 hours, the three protagonists went to the two ends of the earth one after another. Fighting a few big fights, getting caught, escaping and a series of adventures, tossing the middle part of the whole movie, but the final time still did not exceed the standard?
At the beginning, the villain black BOSS was not injured even if he was knocked down by a chimney with a height of tens of meters because of the biochemical transformation, and even went through two transformations to further strengthen his body.
As a result.... in the final battle, I was knocked down by two bald heads with fists...
Since these plots are the key to promoting the progress of the plot, the points that are different from other details can be "ignored" to a certain extent, which makes the audience feel quite embarrassed.
Therefore, it is not a lie to say that some audiences laughed and said that "this movie can't be watched with a brain".
In fact, it is very easy to make these plot points reasonable, such as adding a few more hours to the "survival time" of the heroine, and the black BOSS should not be so strong at the beginning.
It can be seen from these plots that the completion of the film "Special Action" is really not high. The screenwriter basically writes what he thinks of the story , and the logic and reasonable relationship before and after the plot is completely out of his consideration.
CP
The movie "Special Action", as everyone knows before its release, must be mainly about two bald heads - Hobbs played by Johnson and Shaw played by Jason , the two heroes between the two.
In other words, this is a CP movie .
The characteristic of CP movies is that the chemical reaction between CPs is the most important part of the whole movie . As long as the interaction is popular enough to satisfy the audience, weaknesses such as weak literary drama and inconsistent positioning can be covered up to a certain extent.
"Venom" is a typical example. The quality of the film itself is not high, but the interaction between the protagonist Eddie and the symbiote is very interesting, so it still won a very high box office despite the low reputation.
And the interaction between the two bald heads in "Special Action" can only be said to be nothing but a loss , and there are not many bright spots.
Hobbs and Shaw are set up in the movie to be opposites that are not pleasing to the eye, so the audience of this movie can see a lot of their bickering scenes and all kinds of scolding each other.
But the disadvantage is also here, their bickering is too much, and there is no nutrition.
Throughout the film, whenever there is no fight, these two bald heads are sarcastic at each other, and the bickering takes up a considerable part of the total drama. Even when they are captured by the BOSS and are about to be electrocuted, they are still bickering. Unfortunately, when they bickered, all the villains stopped what they were doing and listened to their nagging.
Moreover, it's not particularly interesting when they fight each other, it's basically "you're a rotten person, I can blow you up at any time", "I'll blow you up when this is over" and so on.
In this way, it directly makes many viewers have a feeling that "these two bald heads are talking too much" , relying on a lot of meaningless bickering to create a chemical reaction between CPs, which can be said to be the lowest level approach . The macho men quarreled with each other like aunts quarreling in the vegetable market, which made the audience wonder whether to laugh or cry.
Of course, there are indeed some interesting interactions between Hobbs and Xiao, such as Xiao deliberately cheating on Hobbs in the forged ID card, but given that the literary and drama part is too bad, it is still impossible to say for the overall shaping of CP. success.
Compared to the CP couple of Hobbs and Shaw, Hattie, played by Vanessa, can be said to be much more lovable. Not only the appearance is perfect, but the action scenes in the film are clean and neat, and there are also things such as legs entangled with Johnson. The temptation scene of the film does not deliberately emphasize the political correctness of feminism in Hollywood today.
It can even be said that the chemical reaction between Hobbs and Shaw is not as interesting as the interaction between Hobbs and Hattie. As the main CP of the film, this level can only be said to be barely passable .
Although the film "Special Action" is not well completed and its shortcomings are obvious, as an entertainment popcorn film, it can still be said to be passable.
But as some netizens said: "If you want to watch this movie, it's best not to watch it with your brain, don't think too much, just watch the action scenes. "
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