"Battle of Tomorrow": The mech is cool, the special effects are dazzling, the story is weak ｜ New Ministry of Arts Review

If the theater movie is simply classified and rough, the action, police bandit, war, martial arts, love, biography, animation, suspense, singing and dancing ... There is a type, which is always the weakness of Chinese movies -science fiction, especially hard science fiction.

So that when "Wandering Earth" was born four years ago, even if the story is not fully told, there is still a gap between the top level of the special effects from Hollywood, but the audience still reports with enthusiastic support and encouragement. In the end, the movie was sold 46.88 46.88. 100 million yuan.

In the past weekend, it took seven years to make it. It was produced and starred by Gu Tianle. Liu Qingyun, Zhang Jiahui, Carina Lau and other Hong Kong star -starred lineups starred in "Tomorrow Battle", under the "Chinese first science -science mech refreshing film", Boom is coming.

"Tomorrow"

The mech is cool and the fighting is very burnt, but after scraping the 62 million yuan box office in advance on Thursday, the box office of "Tomorrow" fell all the way, and this Monday has fallen to about 20 million yuan. In the case of the row ratio, the seat rate, and even the reputation, the reputation is not like the schedule blockbuster "Lone Moon".

The box office of "Tomorrow" declined all the way

There is such a line in "Tomorrow":

"Do your best does not mean doing well."

Unfortunately, this line is also in line with the impression that the film brings to the audience and the market.

Seven years of grinding a sword, Gu Tianle did lead the team to make the own hard nuclear science and science mech films belonging to China. Fighting and special effects do not lose Hollywood, but from the story to the characters, from logic to performance, the other parts of the movie can almost use " "There is no place" to summarize.

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First of all, the story is quite old. The final version of the film is 99 minutes, almost more than 80 minutes, there are sudden and stubbornness, although the fighting drama design is carefully designed, although the mecha is fully displayed in the limited space, there are even relatively wide areas in relatively wide areas. Lane battles and roads chase cars, and generously showed a large amount of rain, dim weather, and bright light shots, which were a bit dazzling. But watching the whole film, I only remember the fire, and even forgot the three brothers of Gu Tianle, Liu Qingyun, and Jiang Haowen to put on the mech and go deep into the tiger's hole. Anyway, it is beating. Anyway, in the future world, the earth's internal and external problems are facing a crisis of survival. Very Hollywood and very old -fashioned.

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Secondly, the characters are quite thin. It is about saving the time as much as possible to fight, so the space left to several protagonists is quite limited. The literary drama of "Tomorrow War" almost only plays a role in series, and the character has a flat character. Gu Tianle and Liu Qingyun Yi Yuntian, but their behaviors and motivations lack support. Zhang Jiahui played the big villain to be distinguished at a glance without suspense. As a mech refreshing film, in fact, the audience can accept your story simple, but the characters in the story should have flesh and blood. Earth, such as "Star Cross". What really moves people is the heart.

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Furthermore, there are logical flaws. For example, under the premise of alien creature around, a little girl with no fighting ability can actually survive in an abandoned hospital; the important "genetic bullet" set in the film can change the alien creature, and in the military There is no additional reserves at the base; a large military base, but there are very few soldiers ... perhaps the hardware geographical environment limited by Hong Kong, or maybe it is limited to the later expenses of continuous super budget. In this few scenes, it has not created the magnificent and magnificent crisis of the whole world.

As a movie fan, I am willing to fight Gu Tianle's feelings. The world -famous film production company in his name is one of the main products of "Battle of Tomorrow".

Since the establishment of the world, since its establishment, it has continuously acquired many related companies such as post -production, digital special effects to consolidate its own strength in special effects production, and continuously increases the post -production level of domestic films. "The Apostle" is also the domestic film "Action of the Mekong River" and "Action of the Red Sea". The wonderful special effects have its credit.

Even, "Wandering Earth", "Changjin Lake", "Railway Heroes", "Mistake killing", and "Lone Moon", which is being screened, are behind these films. a company.

To be a Chinese science fiction movie, he is always working in this direction.

As a movie fan, I am also willing to play nine points to the special effects of "Battle of Tomorrow". Although there are frame drops and shaking, this is a mech blockbuster that we have completed after all. But for this "serious" movie, like Douban netizens, I can barely give it six points. I have to say that the bad story seriously drags gorgeous special effects.

In fact, we have long been used to the bombardment of Hollywood's top special effects, but we will still look forward to the appearance of high -quality Chinese science fiction works. Because we hope to be able to combine these imaginative elements and familiar cultural context through technology to present a new experience that is different from the Hollywood style. Perhaps this is the significance and value of Chinese science fiction, in Chinese fans, in the world film industry.

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Author: Sun Jiayin

Edit: Wu Xuying

Photo: Official stills, partly derived from the Internet

© Xinmin Evening News Department of Culture

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