"After watching the Hudson Eagle, I thought Hugo Lancaster would not appear in action movies for a long time, because of shame. But unexpectedly, when the "Speed ​​of Life and Death" landed on the big screen, I had to stand up for Hugo Lancaster, and like me, there were 2,000 viewers attending the premiere."

As always, Nicholas McClellan always complained about Hugo while praising Hugo, which has become one of his major features. In this review titled "Action Movie Innovation", Nicholas commented from a completely different perspective.

"Action movies, also known as thrilling action movies, are movie types with strong and tense thrilling actions and audio-visual tension as the core. Movie stories are always unable to break out of fixed modes. A brave and witty protagonist fights incredibly dangerous situations. After a series of intense and exciting violent fights and gunfights, a victorious ending is achieved. From a traditional perspective, the audience of action movies is mainly male audiences aged fifteen to thirty-five, including fighting, stunts, racing and explosions. Justice defeats evil as the main line, and the solution is often to resort to violence.

Generally speaking, action movies tend to be box office darlings, but are less likely to be recognized by the critics because of their oversimplified story structure and flat descriptions of positive and negative characters.

Action movies were pushed to the peak in the 1980s. The great success of the ‘007’ James Bond series, ‘Die Hard’ series, ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ series, ‘First Blood’ series, ‘Terminator’ series,’ has pushed this genre to the extreme, from the adventure legend of the classic period to pure violence and audio-visual stimulation, violent aesthetics gradually emerged, and the violence of the film moved towards gamification, machinedization, abstract painting and beautification. The infinite and indestructible contemporary heroes pushed the special effects and special actions to the more violent and crazier extreme, which directly led to the gradual increase in the cost of film production, and reached the extreme in ‘Terminator 2’: the first work in film history with an investment of over 100 million yuan was released.

At the same time, this has also caused action movies to be criticized more. The plot is weak, the monotonous male heroes, the loopholes of story and character design, and the empty and tasteless plot mining have made the film critics sneer at action movies. If we summarize the action movies in recent years in one sentence, it is, "papapapapapa, bangbangbang, bangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangb

But the appearance of "life and death speed" has opened up a new world for action movies: no explosion, no fighting, no special effects, no high investment, serious storytelling, and still can create amazing action movies!

In fact, the "speed of life and death" cannot be said to be "innovation", but should be said to be retro. Before action movies went to extremes, action-type films in the 1960s were still able to shoot amazing works without high investment. "speed of life and death" used their own practical actions to send people a reminder: an investment of 28 million US dollars can also make excellent action movies!

In the history of films, action movies like "Life and Death Hour" that were not favored but received crazy praise after the premiere is very rare, not to mention that this is a "new" work. Director Jane De Bonte only directed a movie for the first time, but made a splash; Sandra Brock and Leonardo DiCaprio are all newcomers. With Hugo, who has risen strongly in the past two years, the performances of several starring actors are naturally mature, with fresh and smooth styles and perfect coordination; most importantly, the content and skills of this work have made many innovative breakthroughs compared to previous action movies.

The plot structure of the movie is not novel, basically continuing the tradition of action movies, including intense and intense fighting, critical crises, and romance that sprouted from living and dying together. This is an original action movie. But the story of "life and death speed" provides a new perspective for action movies.

The movie takes a narrow bus as the main scene. Time is passing by, but the danger cannot be eliminated. The bus is driving in the downtown area of ​​Los Angeles. The city is blue and white, and the scenery is beautiful. Everything looks so ordinary and ordinary. The crowded traffic in the city can be seen everywhere, but all this may become the death talisman of the bus. The bus has to keep telling you to shuttle on the road, and another bomb may explode at any time covers everyone's heart.

In general action movies, the soaring speed of the car is often a precursor to stimulation, which stimulates people's adrenaline, and the shuttle of racing is even more and more sudden. However, in this work, the increase in speed means the arrival of death, making the audience feel more and more nervous. Every change in speed maintains the danger of the bomb, making people gradually reach the extreme of tension.

More importantly, De Bantt chose the scene of the story in a bus that can be accessed at any time in daily life. The streets and scenery of the city of Los Angeles are the most important part of the movie. The background image at a certain moment may be the place where the audience goes to work, and the traffic jam in a certain street may be the way for the audience to go home, which also makes people feel more realistic and heavy. De Bantt grasps this scheduling expressiveness of life and death, and successfully uses this technique on the subway telling the marching in the second half of the movie, giving a comprehensive interpretation of the speed.

The film closely revolves around the explosion crisis and interprets the expression of speed from different angles. The main line of the story is simple and clear, the plot is compact, and the advancement is fast. All plots serve the main line. The entire story context is clearly presented. It can be regarded as a classic tutorial on "How to tell a good action movie story". It can be said to be a miracle in the history of the movie!

‘Speed ​​of life and death’ can be called the best explanation of the name ‘Tenergy and Exciting’. The whole movie is advancing without any nonsense and hesitation. It is clear and clear, and it is moderate, setting a precedent for action movies, telling weak stories plump and exciting enough. The audience will feel the same at any time when they watch it, and will be more nervous than when they first watch it, as if they are here in person again and again.

Looking at the entire movie, there are only a handful of fight scenes, only a handful of explosion scenes, and even a handful of confrontation scenes. However, the film's tension and stimulation index has not weakened at all. On the contrary, it gradually reaches its peak with the advancement of time. From the elevator to the bus to the subway, one wave after another, leaving the audience with no time to drink water.

It is also a simple story, a lone hero, and an exciting violence, but the "speed of life and death" is completely different and new, and is presented in a concise, clear, vivid and realistic way, allowing the action movie to revitalize its powerful vitality.

‘Oversimple story framework and flat description of villain characters’, this is the most criticized problem of action movies, but it has been alleviated in the ‘speed of life and death’.

The simple story structure assists several story branches to supplement it. At the same time, the main story line does not give the audience any breathing space, throwing the crisis one after another, dazzling. Before people react, the story ends, which makes the whole story particularly full. When the story is clear, the story is full of details.

The simple positive and negative characters rely on the actor's own strength to fill it. Although Sandra Brock, who plays Anne, has a simple role, simple and humorous image, full of justice and calmness, is very good under her performance; Dennis Hopper, who plays Paine, does not have much performance space, his crazy image is still very clear.

Most importantly, Hugo Lancaster, who plays Jack, uses his personal charm to complete the role. The anger and sorrow of his teammates when he dies, shows his importance to friendship; his cleverness and neatness in dealing with the chaos and conflicts within the bus shows his rationality in dealing with difficulties; his calmness and courage in the face of crisis shows his control over emergency scenes... These countless details can be found in his amber eyes, which is undoubtedly a huge victory.

The movie "Speed ​​of Life and Death" proves that the limited space can still fill the content, and the limited time can still fill the details, which undoubtedly opens up a brand new path for action movies!

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‘Life and Death Hour’ attempts to break the constraints of action movies and write a new chapter on the same story track, making people realize that action movies are not only an adrenaline stimulation, but also a visual and auditory enjoyment, making this popcorn movie truly a pleasure!

What role did Hugo Lancaster play in this innovation? It makes people curious."

Nicholas's film reviews made people's eyes shine. This time he did not focus on Hugo, but instead discussed the entire genre film from the innovation of the entire movie "Speed ​​of Life and Death", which undoubtedly caused wider discussion. At the same time, it can also be seen that Nicholas's pursuit of this movie is even more conspicuous than the 93 points he scored.

After all, although 93 points are high, they are still not as fierce as Nicholas's fight with all kinds of films in one go. You know, although Nicholas did not point it out clearly, he obviously criticized all the classic action movies before, and placed the "speed of life and death" in a position to challenge countless classics!
Chapter completed!