"The law will punish them and give them opportunities. In a few years, they can come out, get married, have children, and be good fathers."
"But what about my daughter? She will never survive again. She will never survive again." No chance! "
- This is a line spoken by Wang Qianyuan in the movie " The Wandering Blade ".
The movie I have been thinking about has finally been released. Brother Fei watched this movie with very high expectations, but he did not expect to be so disappointed. I had previously predicted that the box office would reach 1 billion, but this time I was severely slapped in the face. .
In my opinion, "The Wandering Blade" is a superficial and flashy film. Below I will combine the box office data to make a short film review to give some advice to viewers who are curious and want to see this movie. Awake.
1. Box office.
html According to the box office report on Saturday, May 18, the market received a total of 111 million, an increase of 60 million from Friday. "The Wandering Blade", which had high hopes, did not detonate theaters as expected. The top three ofare "Thelma and Louise ", "Wandering Blade" and "Rise of the Planet of the Apes: New World".
A total of four new films entered the list on Saturday.
Gosling's "Stuntman" fell out of the top ten on the second day of its release. The box office was a disaster. The total box office in two days was only 4.01 million. It was unstoppable.
The performance of the two imported films was mediocre. "Tonight, Even if This Love Disappears from the World" starring Shunsuke Michieda only ranked ninth with a box office of 4.91 million; while the romance film "" starring Takeru Sato and Masami Nagasawa "April Girlfriend " premiered with 1.63 million, missing the top ten.
Xu Guanghan's " Missed Your Years " box office plus pre-sales reached 8.57 million. It seems that this movie has a great future in the May 20th schedule.
" Zhaoyun Muyu" directed by Zhang Guoli and starring Fan Wei and Zhou Dongyu, on the second day of its opening, the total box office took in 9.28 million, barely surpassing "Peacekeeping Riot Squad" and ranking fifth.
To be honest, this film is far from what was expected. Zhou Dongyu's box office appeal has hit rock bottom. If he doesn't think of a way, he will be known as "box office poison".
"The Wandering Blade", which only won one single-day box office championship, was beaten by Jia Bing's "Thelma and Louise" the next day. It collected another 18.62 million on Saturday, and 's cumulative box office barely reached 30.28 million.
According to its trend, the share of the film schedule will continue to be divided up by the May 1st old films. Tomorrow Louis Koo and Raymond Lam's " Kowloon Walled City " will almost overtake it. The follow-up trend of the film is quite ugly, and the box office forecast is also from 2 in the media's opinion. 100 million, dropped directly to 100 million.
For a theater movie, there is definitely no way to make back the money. If there is no special way to reverse the reputation and film schedule, box office failure has become an established fact.
2. Film review: "The Wandering Blade" has nothing but its appearance.
The reason for this situation is that the film's reputation is too mediocre, it did not completely ignite the audience's enthusiasm, and the Internet discussion did not form a public opinion. Therefore, the box office can only be like this.
"The Wandering Blade" is adapted from the suspense novel of the same name by Keigo Higashino, directed by Chen Zhuo, starring Wang Qianyuan and Wang Jingchun, and joined by actors such as Qi Xi, Zhang Youhao, Wang Tianchen, Zhou Zhengjie, and Aruna.
The plot is quite simple, it just tells a story of revenge.
Li Changfeng, played by Wang Qianyuan, has two identities. One is a construction worker who gets up early and returns home every day and is busy with work. The other is a single father who raised his daughter Li Qian (played by Wu Shuang) alone.
On the second day of his daughter’s birthday, he had so much fun going shopping with his female classmates that he missed the time to go home. At this time, it was raining again. Li Changfeng was still working overtime at the construction site and asked his daughter to go home early.
After parting ways with her classmates, Qianqian went home alone and was kidnapped by three underage boys who had dropped out of school...
One of them, Luo Zhicheng (played by Zhang Youhao), a timid boy who could drive, was called by his father. After returning home, he was not involved in the subsequent crime process.
The next morning, her daughter was killed.
A few days later, Luo Zhicheng found Li Qian's mobile phone in his car and sent a text message to Li Changfeng to inform him of the location of his daughter's murderer.
After that, the plot started to get out of hand, and Li Changfeng's road to revenge began...
The ending song of "The Wandering Blade" was sung by Wang Feng, and there was an easter egg at the end, imagining that Li Changfeng bought a pet and took his daughter home, as if nothing had happened. happened before. The shortcomings of
movies are very obvious. I summed it up in four words: is superficial and flashy.
Its "appearance" and "hua" are reflected in the fact that this movie fits the story of three junior high school students in Handan, Hebei; its "untruth" completely loses its potential.
In other words, such a great subject matter is so empty, let alone reflection and emotional resonance. The specific analysis of
is as follows:
First, it lacks suspense and the plot is unreasonable and too big.
This novel by Keigo Higashino tells a suspenseful human story, but this film does not have any plot twists, all clues are unreasonable, and more importantly, the investigators are always a beat slower than Li Changfeng.
Especially the landlady who rented a house to him, her behavior was really puzzling.
She watched half of the video. She didn't know why she helped the wanted criminal Li Changfeng for free. It was okay to conceal it and not report it, but she actually drove to help him find the second murderer.
Sister, this is a crime of cover-up and accomplice. It violates the criminal law and has a record of ruining three generations. The screenwriter is legally illiterate. Are you also legally illiterate? Don’t you know this basic common sense?
Earlier, Li Changfeng killed a murderer. Later, Liang Jun (played by Wang Jingchun) also persuaded him that he could watch the bad guys being tried in court. You are lying. Do you think Li Changfeng does not know the law?
Two people are gone. This is a major case. It should be particularly shocking in the local area, but there are not many people handling the case. Li Changfeng is running around with dangerous weapons. It doesn’t matter if he can’t find any clues, but at least the whole city is under control. Sou Shan should have it.
Unfortunately, not only are these not available, there is also a plot in the middle where Liang Jun lets Li Changfeng go. What is this, dereliction of duty! Obviously you, Liang Jun, engage in favoritism and sympathize with Li Changfeng, brother, but you are the captain of the criminal police.
Second, the tangled psychology of hesitation.
The name of the movie is "The Wandering Blade". I just want to ask the director, what is "Wandering" and what was your intention in making this movie?
Then let me tell you, hesitation means wandering around, hesitating, not knowing which direction to go. It also refers to the entangled side of the heart. How to choose?
It can be seen from the ending that the director has no idea what "hesitation" means, and he interpreted it as Wang Qianyuan feeling dizzy due to lack of physical strength.
Third, the theme is preaching, and the large subtitles at the end are superfluous.
Everyone knows that the theme of this movie is family education. If you can't even see this, you probably haven't passed the nine-year compulsory education. For what purpose did the director ask Liang Jun to give a dictation of family education at the end?
What’s even more irritating is that the large subtitles are used as support, which again underestimates the audience’s understanding. You are incompetent as a director. Don’t treat the audience as the same as you, okay?
Such a shocking theme, but the filming was so mediocre, and I don’t know how the director did it. Every aspect of "The Wandering Blade" wanted to involve the three minors in Handan, but the main creator did not have a diamond, and the porcelain was covered It was a mess.
Brother Fei’s personal rating is two and a half stars, one star for Wang Qianyuan’s performance, one star for the subject matter, and half a star for the entire crew. 6 points cannot be higher.
3. It’s time for Wang Qianyuan to wake up.
Wang Jingchun and Wang Qianyuan in "The Wandering Blade" are both actor-level, and there are naturally no problems with their performances. However, there are many unreasonable things in the plot of the movie, which should be pointed out to the director. If you want to make it a high-quality movie, everyone needs to work together. effort.
Similarly, who is the most outstanding in this movie is none other than Wang Qianyuan.
I like Wang Qianyuan very much. He has proven himself with his acting skills in "The Piano of Steel" and " Rescue My Mr. ". Especially in "Rescue My Mr.", he even received more attention than Andy Lau.
Before, his ability to handle the box office was still good. For example, the box office of "Big Shot" and " " were 380 million and 538 million respectively. In Guan Hu's " Eight Hundred ", he was the number one leading actor. The box office was 3.1 billion.
But after "Crackdown", Wang Qianyuan and Bao Beier became obsessed with Japanese and Korean remakes. Their representative works include "Break", "Big Shot", "Lobster Detective", "You Are the Murderer", "What's in the Zoo " and so on.
In recent years, Wang Qianyuan’s works have been released five times in a row.
In 2022, the box office of "The Hunt" and "The Man Who Loves Me Most in the World" were 12.55 million and 7.64 million respectively;
In 2023, all three movies had a box office, "The Storm" with 42.06 million; "The Rescue" with 42.04 million; "Procuratorate" 61.83 million.
The above movies also have a common feature, that is, their reputation is very mediocre, and there is not a single high-quality masterpiece. This time, coupled with "The Wandering Blade", has made 6 movies in a row.
At this point, Wang Qianyuan really needs to wake up.
First of all, reduce remakes.
Now Wang Qianyuan is actually the big Bao Beier. If the remake continues and the reputation is as unsatisfactory as ever, he will completely become Bao Beier, and his path will become narrower and narrower in the end.
Secondly, choose the script carefully.
We will reject all bad scripts. Don't star in bad movies just for the so-called salary. Even if you have top-level acting skills, you can't stop mediocre creators. In this regard, Zhou Dongyu is a good example.
Finally, there was silence, a hit.
With your acting ability, there will definitely be no shortage of scripts, especially for crime and suspense films. Your appearance is a plus. Among the many scripts, find excellent directors and actors to work with.
Excellent original scripts are hard to come by. You will definitely encounter a director like Wong Kar-Wai and a script like "Flowers". If it comes back again, it will definitely gain both box office and reputation.
4. Conclusion.
The production of "The Wandering Blade" has a lot to do with director Chen Zhuo. Previously, he was able to remake the high-quality suspense film "The Invisible Guest" into "Crossing the Sea" with a score of 5.8 on Douban.
It is conceivable how mediocre his creative power is, so many good actors have been ruined by him, and it is simply not the same size as Cao Baoping's "Wading the Angry Sea".
Chen Zhuo, you took the picture very well, please don’t take it next time!
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