Before being redefined by the deaths of Wen Ziren and Paul Walker, the "Fast and Furious" series was born in the new century. Although the scenes are getting bigger and bigger, it can still be regarded as a crime-themed action movie in general. But from a certain point in time, these "Liangshan heroes" who had fallen into the grass were suddenly "recruited"-and the reason was always the top spot, Fan Diesel's "Family".
It was also from this point in time that the group of "non-staff agents" who had forgotten their original intentions and had a bad name lost their ability to be grounded. The iconic visual impact is more mission impossible than "Mission Impossible", behind it is the CG production that has been exposed year after year. These ridiculous, anti-physical and anti-logical action dramas are nothing more than using more adrenaline, male hormones, steroids and ineffective hair growth agents to keep those who are no longer worried about "forcing new words to talk". Interested audiences.
And this also provided theoretical support for the rumored "Special Operations" debut-at this time, since the audience only wants to see the bald guys who escape from the sky, and the guns explode with the big muscles, then it is justifiable to create more bald guys. And big muscle bullying.
For director David Reach, "Special Operations" is also probably the simplest action movie he has ever filmed. The difficulty of action design in the movie is much lower than that of John Wick who killed three people with a pencil. . Although there are Dashi Johnson and Guoda Statham, who are the most able to play in the series, the characterization is close to the Marvel superhero.
But "Fast and Furious" fans don't care. In the trailer, the seemingly cool street chases, rapid descent of tall buildings, complete destruction of power plants, locomotives and cranes are all the main dishes of this CG meal. However, as far as the cost of up to 200 million US dollars is concerned, "Special Operations" can be cartoonized, can be gag, can have no story, but it is difficult to find truly creative and decisive shots:
"Fast and Furious 5" has full streets with safes, "Fast and Furious 6" has tank battles, "Fast and Furious 7" has skyscrapers, and "Fast and Furious 8" has zombie cars and submarines. In "Special Operations", almost no iconic scenes comparable to it can be found.
But compared with the fake and serious authentic story, "Special Operations" at least dared to admit its absurdity: Kevin Hart and Ryan Reynolds are full of joyous guest appearances, a large number of dick jokes, just to prevent the audience from taking this. The story of comerism is too serious.
After all, to let Vanessa Kirby, who is both handsome and fistful, play the sister of British yuppie Guoda Statham, who is so rough and rough, and has to go full with the AT force field, and the testosterone concentration is so high that no one is close. The body of Dashi Johnson acting in emotional drama, that is an impossible task.
For the series screenwriter, Chris Morgan, it seems a bit stressful to develop decent scripts for both the 2019 Special Operations and the 2020 Fast and Furious 9 at the same time. The second best of the two is the "Special Operations" as it should be. Super soldiers, AI(?) behind the scenes, programmable super viruses, and the Nth appearance of Gaia's theory all come from the brainless Hollywood stereotypes.
However, it can be seen that despite the abuse of CG and editing, David Reich, who is still in the run-in period, still tries his best to keep the melee show's visibility at the level of the first two films. However, since Idris Elba, who plays the villain, is not an action actor, the two big bald heads are just fighting miscellaneous fish most of the time.
But just like Gu Tianle in "Slaying the Wolf: Greedy Wolf", Idris Elba is the key figure that keeps this "Black Superman" from standing still. Considering that the entire "Fast and Furious" series has become too bloated, "Special Operations" has tried to maintain a simple and direct style in terms of characters and plot. The only two main new characters, Vanessa Kirby and Idris Elba, have been amazingly integrated into this bald family. The former symbolizes the convergence of "Special Operations" to the "Mission Impossible" series. And the latter's extremely strong line skills make the ridiculous dialogue in the second to the second stage not so outrageous.
For the two bald protagonists, after breaking away from the real and second-line Van Diesel force, Johnson and Statham found the comfort zone easily and perfectly realized the transition process from pseudo-agents to real agents. In a sense, "Special Operations" is a modernization of Buddy Comedy in the 80s/90s.
Dashi Johnson, who is becoming more and more popular in Hollywood, proves his excellent standards as an action superstar-not only physical fitness, but also business acumen-"Special Operations" will undoubtedly continue for several years. , And will continue the peak period. Dave Batista wants to overtake a corner and has to wait a few more years.
But what's more interesting is that Guoda Statham, who is separated from the second-rate action movie, can seamlessly integrate into the first-line special effects blockbuster. Here comes the question: why didn't he do this long ago?
The summer season of 2019 is in full swing. After Disney has harvested a lot, although traditional commercial blockbusters with advantages and disadvantages such as "Special Operations" will not bring any satisfaction, the rich entertainment is just right. Timeliness-besides, a truly powerful female protagonist is far better than another wave of politically correct sings of the mainstream "Girls of the Thunderbolt" and "Terminator 6: Dark Fate" in the second half of the year.
For Universal Pictures, the prefix of "Fast and Furious" is nothing more than double insurance; but as far as the film is concerned, Hobbes and Shaw, who have completely faded the speed and passion, can be completely new and unique. new series.
Although the creative decline of Hollywood is better at making assembly line products than real movies, "Special Operations" is still one of the most interesting new products of the moment.
Although the stem is a bit old, the rice is at least freshly fried.
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