If this film was born before "Men in Black", the reviews might not be as bad as it is today, but it was almost 20 years ago that the first MIB was released. Some of the cutting-edge equipment is about to be invented by a great technical house, but you are still standing still, especially in terms of narrative and rhythm, you have been dumped by your predecessors more than a street, you can understand why film critics and fans are so angry .
In fact, the story setting of RIPD is really interesting. Let's not talk about the American-style "Youyou Baishu" worldview structure, and the insurance configuration of the old and the young with a handsome and a gag, only the two protagonists are set with the contrast between the blonde beauty and the Chinese old man. The wonderful creativity that appears in the world is enough to make people look forward to it.
It's a pity that the movie failed to live up to such an exquisite design, and it fell short in other respects. The stylized story has no bright spots, and the villain that affects Kevin Bacon is too bad, superficial, violent and tacky, not to mention the emotional line that has no sense of existence. I want to make a story about a person's ghostly love, but helpless emotions pave the way. If it is not in place, it only makes people feel blunt and redundant, and even the appearance of the heroine is too casual. When put together with RR's bitter melon face, it is like Huanglian burning bitter melon, which makes people less interested.
In terms of special effects, the production cost of the movie, which is claimed to be more than 100 million yuan, is really not cost-effective. It is nothing more than that some buildings collapsed and cars collided, and ghosts rushed into the sky all the way. The weapon used for the decisive battle is, wait a minute - a gun? This sense of discord is like watching a popular movie about vampires vs werewolves, but the two sides couldn’t negotiate like gangsters, so they hid behind the cover and shot each other with guns; He took out a sniper rifle and shot the Zombie King wearing an official uniform of the Qing Dynasty and holding an AK47 in the head. There is nothing unreasonable, but it is not right.
As a movie about "ghosts", the whole movie doesn't even mean to create a terrifying atmosphere. The evil ghosts are nothing more than pale and festering skin, at most four hands and eight eyes, and a stench that makes flowers Withered trees withered tungsten filaments burnt wallpaper mottled, plus evil for no reason. Of course, you can also call them evil aliens, Satan's subjects (demons and ghosts are two different things), descendants of Dracula, and evil robots. In short, as a fantasy movie changed by comics, the villains have no characteristics, and the shapes, habits, attacking moves, and bad tastes are all lackluster. Once the attitude of dealing with the work, the enemy is so weak and weak, how can you expect the protagonists to do well? How about glowing and heating in the absence of contrast? So it's no surprise that the movie ended up being the norm.
The film finally received only 30 million yuan in the United States, which can be said to be a huge failure. In vain, the governor has a thick phlegm in the film to learn the western accent, and RR screwed up the big productions one after another, and he will become the spokesperson of the box office poison.
Considering that the movie was adapted from the dark horse comics, and the setting basically copied the original work, it can be said responsibly that the director seemed to be forced by the underworld to make a movie to pay off his debts, and did not take the movie seriously as a work at all. Maybe there are film dealers interfering, the original author is involved, the producer seizes the power, and the starring drama tyrants are all kinds of insufficiency and outsiders, but in the end, the result everyone sees is that, like a student copying characters, the film covers Drawing and painting on the bodies of MIB, Constantine and other seniors, the 100 dogma of Hollywood's gold screenwriters is bound in the main creator's mind. Every step of the movie steps on the steps expected by the audience, no surprises, and even less surprises.
However, going back to the beginning of the article, watching a movie late, in addition to the huge risk of being spoiled by scumbags, the advantage is that you hear criticism and scolding like a landslide and tsunami, and you have no expectations in your heart, but you find that it is still the same. There are stars, special effects and comics as the basis, and it is not a bad movie, but you can still watch a "popcorn" movie, so as to kill 90 minutes of a weekend morning, and then take a deep breath, thinking " It doesn't seem that bad." Well, it's like taking out the forgotten fifty cents from the washed clothes, feeling that I found it cheap, and then I am happy.
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