Thousands of troops march across the grassland. Taking a closer look, it turned out to be an AI-switched face.
0-year-old Jackie Chan and Nazha formed CP and also served in the US military. He could have enjoyed his old age in peace, but he insisted on reliving "The Adventures of Jackie Chan" in the ice and snow. I thought it was a memory killing, but I didn't expect it to rub the audience's feelings and IQ on the ground.
Zhang Yixing, the person with the least balance in the whole film.
implements his silly character design and provides us with countless horse-catching scenes. It’s been almost half a month since the screening, and the ratings and reviews are really “work hard and work hard”.
Before watching this film, I never thought that the person who saved the Chinese music scene and the Chinese AI blockbuster could be the same person.
I generally don’t talk about bad movies in general. But "Legend" really has too many flaws, and I'm going to complain.
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Old rules, fast and economical, the relationship between this film and "Myth" belongs to: director Tang Jili's own remake.
If you don’t believe me, look, this is Jackie Chan in “The Myth” in 2005:
This is the AI dragon in “The Legend”:
Yes, in order to continue "The Myth", the director also gave fans a better viewing experience, A huge amount of money was spent to implement AI face-changing technology throughout the entire film.
But the whole face-swapping was inconsistent with Ailong. It had been around for 10 minutes before I confirmed that it was really him.
ai Long appears every time, which makes people feel that this movie has some problems with the understanding of the word "feelings". No one wants to spend nearly two and a half hours watching Jackie Chan who is wearing Max.
Looking at the whole thing, Zhang Yixing, who is of the same age as the character, has a stronger murderous look on his face than Ai Long. The collagen on Jackie Chan's face when he was young was not so exaggerated at all.
ailong's picture has a strong smell of immature technology, which caused most of the audience to maintain the same frown expression as ailong throughout the whole process.
"Legend" completely opened up a new movie type for domestic entertainment: abstract movies.
Why don't you do something wrong? You have to arrange a catchy "grandfather and grandson love" love line on Ai Long. That is simply forcing Nazha to fall in love with Jackie Chan.
Two generals appeared in front of Nazha at the same time. Nazha saw the ailong glance for thousands of years. Next to her, Xiao Yixing fell in love with Nazha. The love triangle in the ancient military camp is so abstract. You can even see ancient costumes in this movie. Edition of "Burning Winter".
The scene where Nazha appears creates a "paradise" feeling. In 2024, you can still see the scenery and CG of "Seven Fairies of Joy" on the big screen.
is very dreamy, very saturated, saturated to the point of violation. It’s the kind of retro texture that can be achieved by walking into a photo studio 20 years ago and telling the photographer: I want a set of chivalrous-style portraits.
I think this is the real alkaline movie.
Except for the real shots of thousands of troops crossing the prairie, every frame seemed to insult the eyes of countless viewers, and a strong sense of malnutrition surged into my heart.
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It is no exaggeration to say that there were fans of "Myth" at the same show. After watching "Legend", they cursed and burst into tears.
So what happened to such a movie that "originally had some expectations"?
This story continues the setting of the previous game, but re-creates two brand-new story lines from a completely different era: the ancient line tells about Major General Huo Qubing (played by Dou Xiao), and two gold medal generals Zhao Zhan (ai Long) ) and Hua Jun (played by Zhang Yixing) use a ring-sword column to outwit the Huns.
Modern Line tells the story of Professor Fang (played by Jackie Chan), an archeology professor, who, with his students Wang Jing (played by Zhang Yixing) and Xinran (played by Peng Xiaoran), unearthed a jade pendant at the archaeological site and wanted to decipher the secret of the jade pendant. s story.
Compared with "Myth", the same story is written twice.
There are almost no unexpected innovations in the main plot, and the side plots are completely uninteresting.
To sum it up in one sentence, in this movie that combines magical realism and fantasy settings, every era has its ultimate craziness.
First of all, in ancient times, the craziest critic was Hudu Na (played by Li Zhiting), the Hun king who killed his father and brother.
He wore thick smoky makeup and spoke standard foreign Mandarin. Those who didn’t know better thought that his family would also receive auspiciousness from heaven.
Originally, Princess Mengyun, played by Nazha, was to be betrothed to his brother, but he liked Mengyun too much, so he simply won a double kill in his own tent, becoming both king and queen.
Mengyun didn’t like him as a “super tyrant”, so he repeatedly staged the drama of “she runs away and he chases”. On the way to escape, he met our good brothers Zhao Zhan and Hua Jun in the military camp.
is so familiar. Isn’t this inappropriate “plagiarism” of “Mythology”?
If nothing goes wrong, something will go wrong. The heroine falls in love with Jackie Chan. After all, the last one was shot in this way.
But you all can’t believe how much love-minded this Mengyun is. Zhao Zhan and Hua Jun rescued her from the Huns together. Hua Jun was almost shot into a sieve, but she just remembered that it was Zhao Zhan. Saved her.
This group of people is really confusing. According to the settings, everyone is extremely powerful, but they can't kill this super hero. After Hua Jun kills Zhao Zhan, he directly gives Zhao Zhan a hidden weapon. Totally poisoned.
Mengyun took Hua Jun overnight and rode to the Holy Land of the Huns to get the antidote to save Zhao Zhan. As a result, Hua Jun's horse died on the way, and Mengyun took the initiative to stay in the Holy Land. Hudu Na came in a hurry and wanted Meng Yun to die. His men.
The Hun King, who could not be killed no matter what, was actually killed by Mengyun who was poisoned and dying, and his throat was cut with a knife, and he fell directly into the ice and snow.
On the other side, Hua Jun took the antidote and ran wildly in the strong wind. He had to ride a horse for a day and a night. He dragged his tired and fragile body from the freezing cold to the blooming of spring. It was a miracle that my brother did not die. But he died in front of his brother.
The core of this film from 1 to 2 may be: ancestral be, regardless of male or female.
The more explosive plot in the modern drama is still the same as the previous work with various seamless transitions, traveling through time and recalling past lives, but unexpectedly the funniest line was uttered by Li Chen: That would be so cool. When the words
appeared, I felt as if my grandmother, who had just learned how to surf the Internet, suddenly told me "You are so awesome".
Professor Fang and Wang Jing were transported between ancient times and modern times. Their fate was so miraculous that they unexpectedly met their former rival Hudu Na, now called Heboar, a Huns cultural expert who engaged in singing bowl healing. .
reunited unexpectedly, and the flavor of "Myth" came out again.
I know Jackie Chan has a strong sense of patriotism, but I never thought it would be so strong. During the fierce battle with Heboar in the Ice Sculpture Dungeon, he even used awkward Mandarin to persuade Heboar. Of course, a similar plot also appeared in "Myth".
It’s not unreasonable, it’s just very blunt, as if a legal promotion advertisement was inserted into a very long film.
So the last half hour of the movie completely turned into an elderly version of "The Adventures of Jackie Chan". This fight scene is in Jackie Chan's usual comedy martial arts template, there are no props, one versus many, it is quite enjoyable to watch. .
But there is also a crazy comment in this paragraph, which is Xinran, a colleague who has a crush on Wang Jing.
In order to "seduce" the straight man Wang Jing, she wore a thin bare-legged artifact in the sub-zero weather. The director was really over the top with his humor, and he was able to insert a charming scene into such a scene.
Having said so much, I can only say "Legend". My recommendation index is 5 stars. I especially recommend it to everyone to buy tickets and ask those who hate it to watch it.
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Looking back at Jackie Chan's movies in recent years, it is no longer the exciting action movies like "Rush Hour" and "New Police Story", but he still has not tried to transform or retreat behind the scenes.
didn’t know who it was, but he brainwashed him and successfully performed the AI face-changing scene, allowing the audience to see an unprecedented visual disaster in a Chinese-language movie.
The Jackie Chan movies in recent years have almost become a large-scale "Jackie Chan's Journey". Hollywood's star actors at the same time have already entered a period of transformation behind the scenes.
Jackie Chan is still fighting in front of the scenes, but the audience seems to be less and less willing to buy this kind of moral kidnapping sentiment.
It is not difficult to see that in the movies starring Jackie Chan, his aura as an action star protagonist is too strong, so that the supporting actors who appear around him often can only appear as his foil.
In the movie "Legend", Zhang Yixing, who is also a general, always seems overwhelmed in front of Jackie Chan, not to mention the audience's on-screen perception of other supporting characters.
In fact, looking back at the previous film "The Myth", 360,000 people barely gave it a 7.0 rating in comparisons of Jackie Chan's movies again and again, including the sentiment of the theme song and the love for Ok Soo portrayed by Kim Hee Sun.
It is not a traditional Jackie Chan movie, and even many people did not think it was good-looking at the time.
Sure enough, there is no harm without comparison. This IP itself has strong story shaping ability, but as mentioned in the previous article, it chose the most conservative "self-remake" mode. We did not see the director in this movie and the sincerity of the actors.
In other words, it really sucks. Click on director Tang Jili's Douban homepage. In the future, he will still tie up with Jackie Chan to make film and television works. Judging from the current standards, I can only say, I wish them success.
