Not to mention a good movie, at least a good story is not.
"Once upon a time there was a mountain, there was a temple in the mountain, and there was an old monk in the temple..." Every Chinese should have heard this story. In acrobatics, there is a kind of swing. When you swing to the highest point, everyone is waiting eagerly for the actor to jump off and do a backflip or something, but when you swing to the highest point, you fall back. Then again, apart from making the audience feel a sore neck, there is no other feeling left.
The same is true of this movie. The self-righteous reversal not only makes the story lose its novelty, but also makes the originally uncomplicated story seem extraordinarily long.
What is the baseline for this story? An Azad group's anti-British struggle? After all, the story of China's resistance to Japan can be made into thousands of copies. The vengeance of a last city-state princess? Lu Siniang's story is well written and worth reading. Or a rambunctious wanderlust story? Wei Xiaobao in Jin Yong's writings is also wonderful.
When it's a good story if it's picked up alone, it becomes a street stall if it's mixed together, and it's even more nonsense if it doesn't distinguish between primary and secondary. Not even if you are Aamir Khan.
First of all, that old sailor is nothing more than a robber who cuts the diameter. If this is set in the anti-Japanese period, he is not even qualified to develop into an underground organization. At best, he is a working class with a preliminary self-awareness. In the background of the story, he was also a sailor. What is his goal? What is the philosophy? Don't say a word. Just because I discussed a few words of freedom with the male protagonist, I became an ideal liberator? Does he do anything in the whole movie that has anything to do with freedom? The final result is that the last city-state princess became the leader. You tell me this is freedom? Before you finish the three sentences, you will talk about human nature. If you say something realistic, is it bad to talk about grain? Sorry, so many years of education have taught me that he is not as good as Li Zicheng and Hong Xiuquan. This is still compared with the failed rebels. Others are not even qualified to compare.
Besides, is the last city-state princess a little white who grew up in an environment of lack of education? When she hijacked the ship for the first time, she didn't want to talk except to shoot arrows. When she hijacked the ship for the second time, she didn't seem to say anything except shooting arrows. When she first assassinated Yingdu, she looked at Yingdu angrily. When killing, first act as a force, and then finish with one stroke. In the end he became a leader. My God, this is more Liu Adou than Emperor Xian of Han. Did she get dumbfounded when her dad was murdering? The characters are so thin that they are not as thin as a piece of paper. If you delete her part, you will find that the movie can work without any hindrance. Well, well, she's a female shooter who eats by her face.
Finally, let's talk about the protagonist. He is witty and can deceive people. In the first five minutes, the role was already tenable. The story behind is actually written over and over again on this routine. Brother, can you sublimate the connotation? No, in the movie, it was sublimated a bit. After chatting with Azad about his ideals, he resolutely betrayed the old sailor, and then he rode Zhao Zilong's horse after watching the old guy who couldn't kill a boat of gunpowder blow up the British ship. , After coming out unscathed under the hail of bullets from the British soldiers, taking advantage of the darkness of the night, when the human nature was turned again and ready to scream, he changed, yes, he changed. He saw the seed that the old sailor had planted sprouted, oh my god, it sprouted, it was green, it was alive, oh my god. He was so moved that he was about to accept the call and threw himself into the arms of the organization. -----What the hell. You told me that there is nothing wrong with the one on the small island. It is surrounded by lush vegetation. How can it be a great thing to grow a sprout? This piece of land, who provoked who?
The story is untenable, and no amount of rhetoric and performance is bullshit.
All kinds of insignificant close-ups in the movie, all kinds of deliberate tricks of Aamir Khan, and the meaningless face-sucking of two female vases make this movie seem a strong patchwork style. In Chinese movies, it is the new Shaolin Temple, the great magician, and the pictures of living in the Fuchun Mountains. All of them are typical garbage movies. How can it not be?
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