——On routine American personal heroism

Benedict 2022-03-27 09:01:06

I heard that the reviews were good, and that Dwayne Johnson, a very characteristic actor, made me still have certain expectations. After watching it, I felt good in general, no matter the special effects, battle scenes, monster images, and emotional portrayals of characters. All are quite in place, and there is nothing to complain about, but I still feel that something is missing (I feel like I always say this recently).

In fact, some of the clips are still a bit bloody. After all, monster movies, all kinds of blood plasma stumps are indispensable, and the villains die quite miserably. I don’t know if the domestic version is a deleted version, but this is enough to become a psychological shadow for children. Come on. There are two bugs in the plot. One is how the detective has the key to the military medical helicopter. Could it be that he even considered the protagonist to choose this helicopter? It's a bit far-fetched; and Johnson was actually wronged by the shot. After all, with his size there, he still really wanted to see the human fight in the monster movie, and the pair of villains made an obvious handover gun there. The former special forces member was actually indifferent! Can you believe that a strong man who can hang and beat military soldiers is actually threatened by ordinary people who have not received training! Shouldn't the normal style of painting be that he grabs the weapon with a backhand and punches the opponent with one punch! At the time, it was all frustrating to watch. Although the monster fights are well done, the footage is still a bit lacking. Most of them are highlighting the image of Johnson. It is said that you are super resilient. Okay, from the sky to the ground, I don’t know how many times I have been on helicopters. Crazy chug, all kinds of falling tens of meters high, ah, non-human, superheroes are just like this, maybe they can't do so well.

The plot, the core and soul of a movie, is the biggest problem. My mood is flat, I am afraid most of it is because of this straightforward plot. The story unfolds, the source of infection falls, the characters are explained, the animal expert who loves animals more than humans, the persecuted Dr. Gene is really a low-profile, rather amusing villain, sister and brother, etc. (The protagonist's good friends and What about the young orangutan? I thought there would be an explanation at the end of the credits, but I just skipped it.) The villain of the second force is so mad that the mutant monsters rush to the city center and use the military to kill them without predicting their combat power. The radio waves emitted by the radio wave transmitters cannot be detected by TM. The strength of the monsters is seriously underestimated. Even an expert cannot be hired. There is only one colonel commanding the whole process. There are not many fighter jets. Crazy, this TM... I don't know how to describe it.

In fact, their purpose is very simple, that is, to highlight the protagonist, and forcibly weaken the IQ of all the supporting characters, in order to achieve the protagonist's bitterness and hatred, all kinds of unnecessary life-threatening, and finally staged a boring drama that finally saved the world. . This kind of individual heroic American assembly line blockbuster is really tired of watching, maybe I really need to change my taste and look for something with depth and connotation. The Transformers, Tomb Raider, Pacific Rim that I watched before... all have this kind of taste, blindly highlighting the protagonist, diluting the existence of the supporting roles and even the public, resulting in a kind of "the whole world is playing soy sauce, only I am in the audience. The feeling of "carry", it shows the individual ability too much and weakens the strength of the collective and the team. Everyone has the complex of heroism, but it can't stand the toss and turns of your TM. The black colonel of the military is simply a villain whose IQ is never online. Various misjudgments and forcibly refute the protagonists, but in fact, from his point of view, it is really understandable to do so, just like the Department of Homeland Security fired a narcotic bomb at George at the beginning. , like a villain, but who can guarantee that the protagonist will be able to appease George? Once it fails, it will face large-scale casualties, so whose responsibility is it? When the protagonist is working hard and desperately to save the world, who can take a second look at the military soldiers who are regarded as the background and are wantonly slaughtered? If they didn't use their own flesh and blood to build a line of defense, fight to the death, defend the safety of the people's lives and property, and block the progress of the monsters, where would there be a moment when the protagonist would show his prowess? ? In a sense, American-style personal heroism, the three views are sometimes really not very positive.

Borrow a sentence to express the inner point of view: "The people make history, and heroes promote the development of history".

Movies should be like life, and everyone is the protagonist.

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Extended Reading
  • Randi 2021-12-31 08:01:40

    The plot is very simple, there is nothing to say, this kind of popcorn movie is good to watch, the gorilla is quite humorous

  • Kraig 2022-03-23 09:01:51

    The special effects are very exciting, the plot is very general, this is a big movie.

Rampage quotes

  • [Brett is flattened by falling debris, his blood splatters over the window]

    Harvey Russell: Oh. Damn. That was a lot.

  • Davis Okoye: Son of a bitch! Pretending to be dead? At a time like this?

    Dr. Kate Caldwell: Oh, my God!

    [George laughs]

    Davis Okoye: No, no. No, it's not funny and I wasn't crying! I wasn't crying, okay? There's a lot of debris around here!

    Dr. Kate Caldwell: Wait, it this like a thing between you guys?

    Davis Okoye: This is not a thing between us. It's a thing with him! Because he has a twisted sense of humor!