Among several new National Day films, the situation can be described as a typical case of "ice and fire", and it is undoubtedly "749 Bureau", which Lu Chuan serves as the screenwriter and director. On the first day of its release, "749 Games" won the single-day box office, b

Among several new National Day films, the situation can be called a typical case of "ice and fire", and it is undoubtedly "749 Bureau " written and directed by Lu Chuan.

On the first day of its release, "749 Games" won the single-day box office, but what followed was a lot of complaints from the audience. The Douban score dropped from 5.0 to 4.4 today, which is the same as Lu Chuan's reputation nine years ago. The genre film " Nine-story Demon Tower " has the same score,

. At present, the cumulative box office of "749 Bureau" is about 330 million yuan. Although it is still not ranked second in the National Day box office list, the single-day box office ranking has changed from the first day The first place fell to the fifth place in these two days.

"749 Game" has been criticized as "Shanghai Fortress 2.0". All kinds of ruthless and sharp criticisms can be seen everywhere: the storyline is unreasonable, the plot development lacks logic, and the characters are also very thin. What is the problem with

"749 Bureau"? The film is positioned as an action science fiction adventure film, but the final result is that Lu Chuan has great ambitions to lay out a grand world view, but the script he wrote obviously cannot match his ambitions, and in the end it can only end up with "four different", which makes people watch It was like sitting on pins and needles.

Review Before the film was released, the marketing focus of a large number of promotional videos was on the 749 bureau and the supernatural people in the film who study mysterious creatures and phenomena. This is a unique world view that is relatively rare in domestic films. In fact, it is a science fiction that is very suitable for development and has room for development. The proposition naturally attracted the attention and curiosity of many viewers, which was also reflected in the fact that it topped the box office on the first day of release.

Looking at the early publicity, many viewers expected to see the thrilling process of organizing research and investigation of mysterious creatures and events, as well as the exciting battles of super teenagers. However, it turned out that it was another wave of "publicity fraud" and the goods were wrong. These huge The world view is just a background setting, and there is not much in the film. The imagined consumption of group portraits of teenagers with special powers and group battles with monsters is downgraded to "rooftop parkour" and teleportation objects, which naturally disappoints many people.

Of course, if Lu Chuan could write the main line of fighting monsters as Ma Shan played by Wang Junkai and the group portraits of the members of Bureau 749, he would not receive so many bad reviews in the end, but the final result was once again disappointing.

The entire storyline of defeating Creature Zero in the main plot is full of logical loopholes, such as unnecessary sacrifices, contradictory organizational settings, and forcibly weakened combat effectiveness.

As for the most important character growth line of Ma Shan in the whole film, it is obvious that the arc of character growth is missing.

The film uses Ma Shan as the main perspective, trying to tell the story of a young hero saving the world in the process of searching for self-identity. However, all the key changes of this character are very abrupt, and the turns of growth and transformation are very perfunctory and cliched. , not only is it easy for the audience to guess the protagonist's next move, Lu Chuan's habit of using excessive sensationalism between characters to cover up the lack of internal logic in changes makes people feel that it is too much.

For example, before the final battle, when he was hiding in the ruins, Xia Hua, played by Miaomiao, came to him to advise him and told Ma Shan that his uncle Uncle Cao Guo was about to sacrifice himself to buy time for everyone, Ma Shan and After the uncle finished the phone call, he immediately decided to return to the 749 Bureau to fight monsters together. However, it was unclear what kind of psychological struggle Ma Shan went through before because he had grown wings and broke up with his uncle.

At the same time, the performance of the two emotional lines that Lu Chuan focuses on most in the film is also very unstable. For example, the family line between Ma Shan and his uncle Cao Guojiu, which is similar to the "father-son relationship", is relatively better. For example, Ma Shan sent his own production The details of the little helicopter are very touching.

However, the childhood sweetheart relationship with Xia Hua, who grew up together in Bureau 749, feels a bit redundant. Xia Hua’s weak character and the “tool man” attribute that drives the plot make this relationship very blunt and abrupt.

Generally speaking, I feel more regretful after watching "749 Games".

Such a unique world view could have been extended to more mysterious, exciting, twists and turns and thrilling events, or it could have been extended to traditional Chinese folk customs, and materials could have been mined from the vast Chinese history and traditional culture.

In addition, the special effects of the imax version of "749 Game" are not bad. Except for the wings of the protagonist and the meditation in the last minute of the ending, which are a bit hard to explain, most of the big scenes in the film are pretty good and shocking, such as the invasion of the city by Creature Zero. , dialogue between aliens and protagonists, battles with mutated blackbirds, flying saucers gradually taking shape and arriving in the sky, etc.

However, the most fundamental part of the movie is the script and story. The final film’s narrative failure left many viewers with a lump in their throats.

Lu Chuan may be good at writing "Kekexili" and "Nanjing!" Nanjing! ” is a script for a feature film like "The Nine-Story Demon Tower" to "749 Game", two consecutive action-adventure films of the same type with monster elements have failed in reputation. Perhaps he needs a screenwriter who is good at genre narrative to join him. His team and Chinese filmmakers still have a long way to go in exploring this type of monster science fiction film.