There’s Nothing and Nothing – “Legion of the Living Dead” movie review
history bar
2021-05-24 05:45
Zach really pulled his hips this time and returned to the zombie theme when he debuted. Compared with “Dawn of the Living Dead”, “Legion of the Living Dead” is full of funds and ambitions, including ancient slow zombies. , there are also zombie masters who can dodge bullets and have good kung fu, there are mutant zombie tigers, and zombie babies who die at birth…
Open NetEase News to view wonderful pictures
It seems to have everything, but after watching the whole movie, it seems that I have no impression of anything. It can be said that it is large and comprehensive. In other words, it is complex but not refined. Although there are many fights, it is not very exciting, and it is a lot of sensationalism. The emotion is basically 0, the horror atmosphere in the zombie film is not felt very much, and the colorful Las Vegas and the colorful humor of the film cover are just a few tastes.
Open NetEase News to view wonderful pictures
This movie is like watching a person cooking with a shelf, but it is obvious that he is tied up, but it does not let you see what you do and how to do it. When you eat it at the end, there are a lot of condiments, but the entrance is not. tasteless.
Open NetEase News to view wonderful pictures
Shallow focus and disappearing figures
Zach fell madly in love with shallow focus photography during the pandemic. A while ago, in the ending easter egg of “Zack’s version of Justice League”, the Joker’s section was shallow-focus photography, which could only take pictures at a certain distance, so the audience’s eyes were all focused on the characters.
Open NetEase News to view wonderful pictures
The purpose of this technique is to let the audience focus on something in the lens, and make the foreground and background become a noise-like existence, which is very helpful for portraying the inner state of the character in a certain situation.
Open NetEase News to view wonderful pictures
However, no matter how good something is, once it is abused, it is too much.
In the film, Zach seems to be desperate to use a shallow focus lens, which is so frequent that it has greatly affected the look and feel. As soon as the lens is given to the character, it is completely unclear, so there is a sense of separation between the character and the background. Their words and behavior is even more abrupt.
Open NetEase News to view wonderful pictures
Of course, the unpleasant characters themselves are also to blame. Although everyone has their own backstory, various outrageous actions make it difficult for the audience to empathize with a character. Even after watching the whole film, I hardly have a favorite character in it.
Therefore, under the premise that Shallow Focus focuses on portraying the characters, the characters themselves are not outstanding, which makes the “character-centered” narrative created by Shallow Focus almost completely ineffective, and the audience will inevitably feel tired when watching.
Open NetEase News to view wonderful pictures
Hodgepodge and Four Dissimilarities
This film is almost a collection of zombies, there are old and young, male and female, some have animals, can walk, run and jump, some are stupid and some are smart…
Open NetEase News to view wonderful pictures
Not only that, there are also various settings in this film, such as zombies will be dehydrated and become mummified when they are exposed to the sun, and they will come alive when it rains. For example, zombies are actually sensitive to temperature.
But these, the feeling is the setting, even if you remove it, it is no big deal, and you will be happy if you leave it. Bubble Zombies sounds good, but you can’t even rain on a sunny day in Las Vegas; you say that zombies are sensitive to heat, which seems to be useless except for the scene that lures zombies to explore their way.
So this film was released for two and a half hours (it can be said to be a very long time for a zombie film), but it was nothing new. The big scene was not played at a high level of Resident Evil, and the degree of horror was basically zero. There are very few other than special, zombie baby Zack himself is using it a second time.
Open NetEase News to view wonderful pictures
There is nothing and nothing.
Open NetEase News to view wonderful pictures
The decomposition of the action is difficult to defeat the chaotic logic
Zach’s movies have always been good at action, and fighting zombies naturally requires action scenes. However, Zach handed in an unsatisfactory answer sheet in this subject that should have scored high marks.
Open NetEase News to view wonderful pictures
The first is the chaos of scheduling during teamfights.
The most obvious part is when several people escape from the safe. The scene is basically divided into four parts, one is a black man and Dieter, one part is a white-haired woman with a chainsaw sawing the escape route, one part is Martin being abused by a tiger, the other part is It is the protagonists Scott and Guzman to clean up the miscellaneous soldiers.
Open NetEase News to view wonderful pictures
Martin clearly said that he was going to the top of the building to find a helicopter, but he came to the ground inexplicably. The rest of the team should not have been separated, but they are isolated from each other in the movie, which also makes this plot seem to lack the necessary connection. Appears disorganized.
Open NetEase News to view wonderful pictures
Another confusing part is the final climax. The zombie king and the male protagonist are fighting on the plane. With the background of the nuclear bomb explosion, it is reasonable to say that it is a 1+1 scene, but the actual effect is far less than 2.
Open NetEase News to view wonderful pictures
The helicopter is a fierce fighting scene, and the nuclear bomb explosion on the plane is a grand destruction, so one is fierce and the other is dignified, and the two events occur at the same time, which weakens the overall performance effect.
Anyway, when I saw this paragraph, I wanted to spit why it’s a matter of life and death, and you still have the mood to take a look at the nuclear bomb flying by.
Open NetEase News to view wonderful pictures
There are actually many bugs in the problem of logical scheduling. For example, the Zombie King just played with you on the top of the building. You flew to another building, and the Zombie King arrived in time. Dare the Zombie King become the Flash? ?
Open NetEase News to view wonderful pictures
Of course, what I regret the most is the chainsaw that pulls the wind. Except for the mv at the beginning, the feature film only saw a wall? !
Open NetEase News to view wonderful pictures
Every team needs a shit stick
Yes, every team must have a shit stick, this doesn’t mean a traitor or a villain, it’s just a brainless person who blows up this shit.
Scott’s daughter, Kate, is one of the best shitposters.
Open NetEase News to view wonderful pictures
In order to save her good friend, she followed the team into Las Vegas. The dynamic pictures of zombies were so terrifying that they were almost useless. She knew that a nuclear bomb would come in a few minutes, so she ran to the place with a small pistol. The zombie lair saves people, and finally someone else has to save her.
She really saved the loneliness.
Open NetEase News to view wonderful pictures
Of course, father could not escape the blame for indulging his daughter to be a shit stick. Knowing that his daughter’s fighting power is 2.5 zombies, the dynamic picture is terrifying to death , but let his daughter come in. He said that he was not trying to repair the relationship with his daughter. It’s a journey, but my body is very honest. From time to time, I would like to talk about how we should live when we have money. With 15 million, let’s buy a new food truck and sell tofu burgers.
Really is the image of migrant workers engraved in the genes.
Open NetEase News to view wonderful pictures
In short, Zach’s film can be said to show all his shortcomings, and even his previous strengths failed to play well.
Open NetEase News to view wonderful pictures
Overuse of shallow focus in photography, chaotic logic in action, and far-fetched plot splits. Thinking about it is not scary enough, nor interesting enough, so it is a predictable result that the film is so mediocre.
Open NetEase News to view wonderful pictures
Next time, it is suggested that the script should at least be polished and streamlined by someone, and the photography should not be taken in person, using the fancy and impractical technique of shallow focus.
It may be more worthwhile to spend a little more time thinking of a few ideas that will wow the audience.
For example, the skydiving at the beginning is very interesting.
Open NetEase News to view wonderful pictures
(Although it is also stupid, there are no rockets, and it is fine to use a fighter jet to wash the ground on a small scale. The person who wants to go out and parachute into it is really a little clever)
Open NetEase News to view wonderful pictures