I had never heard of it before it was released, and after its release, almost all critics were boasting how perfect the film was. I went to watch it with a try. After watching it, I realized that I had been cheated.
The two-hour story film took three hours to tell, which led to an extremely slow pace. Most of the lines were dialogue between the characters, which made me feel like watching a very long and boring talk show. As a suspense comedy film, its suspense is regular, but comedy itself is a joke: there is no comedy in the whole film. It is all cold jokes, so I can't understand where the jokes are. The only interesting jokes have been reused many times in the film, and it is not funny in the end.
If you just regard it as a commercial film produced like an assembly line, it's understandable. You can barely watch it in the first two hours. But in the last 20 minutes, in order to sublimate their feelings, the director and screenwriter forcibly recite Yue Fei's "Man Jianghong · Xie Huai" from different actors three times! Such forced sublimation makes me feel very embarrassed. I know that the main theme movies will sublimate emotions, but the sublimation of "Manjianghong" is terrible!
Because the story takes place at night and the shooting takes place during the day, they can only turn the picture into night through special effects, so you will find a lot of unreasonable light. Their color palette is so dark that people like me who are highly short-sighted look uncomfortable. There is nothing to say about editing, just ordinary. The only highlight is the use of Henan opera-related clips for transition and tandem connection between each major event. If they subtitle Henan opera, it will help the audience understand.
As a history enthusiast, I also paid attention to the clothes style of this film, and the result was that it was terrible . The red official uniform worn by Qin Hui wore in the later period was actually more inclined to the style of the Ming Dynasty isn't Song Dynasty. The armor of the soldiers is more imaginary. In terms of which generation, I think they are really like Japanese. And the crew is even more disrespectful of history: in order to promote the film, they took "Manjianghong · Xie Huai " out of context on a microblog. After understanding history, you will find that the real characters in history are likely not to say those words. Although the film repeatedly emphasizes that stories are fictional, I think fictional stories should also respect history rather than rewrite history. This film is insulting history and insulting the real Yue Jia Jun.
The most disgusting thing is the marketing of this film. When you walk into cinemas in China, you will see that almost all the posters are Manjianghong, and the posters of other movies are in the corner. Its screening arrangement is also terrible. Almost all IMAX cinemas near me are used to show Manjianghong, and other movies can only be shown in ordinary projection halls. They fabricated the box office and controlled the reviews and scores of major rating websites in China. Therefore, the film creates the feeling that this is an epic movie and tricks more people into watching it to increase the box office. On the Cat's Eye Movie website, it scored 9.5, but only 6.8 on IMDb. This is enough to prove how bad the film is and how crazy the control score is.
This makes me completely dislike this movie. If it doesn't do these bad things, it may be an ordinary commercial movie. But based on all the above crimes, my assessment is a RUBBISH MOVIE!
The two-hour story film took three hours to tell, which led to an extremely slow pace. Most of the lines were dialogue between the characters, which made me feel like watching a very long and boring talk show. As a suspense comedy film, its suspense is regular, but comedy itself is a joke: there is no comedy in the whole film. It is all cold jokes, so I can't understand where the jokes are. The only interesting jokes have been reused many times in the film, and it is not funny in the end.
If you just regard it as a commercial film produced like an assembly line, it's understandable. You can barely watch it in the first two hours. But in the last 20 minutes, in order to sublimate their feelings, the director and screenwriter forcibly recite Yue Fei's "Man Jianghong · Xie Huai" from different actors three times! Such forced sublimation makes me feel very embarrassed. I know that the main theme movies will sublimate emotions, but the sublimation of "Manjianghong" is terrible!
Because the story takes place at night and the shooting takes place during the day, they can only turn the picture into night through special effects, so you will find a lot of unreasonable light. Their color palette is so dark that people like me who are highly short-sighted look uncomfortable. There is nothing to say about editing, just ordinary. The only highlight is the use of Henan opera-related clips for transition and tandem connection between each major event. If they subtitle Henan opera, it will help the audience understand.
As a history enthusiast, I also paid attention to the clothes style of this film, and the result was that it was terrible . The red official uniform worn by Qin Hui wore in the later period was actually more inclined to the style of the Ming Dynasty isn't Song Dynasty. The armor of the soldiers is more imaginary. In terms of which generation, I think they are really like Japanese. And the crew is even more disrespectful of history: in order to promote the film, they took "Manjianghong · Xie Huai " out of context on a microblog. After understanding history, you will find that the real characters in history are likely not to say those words. Although the film repeatedly emphasizes that stories are fictional, I think fictional stories should also respect history rather than rewrite history. This film is insulting history and insulting the real Yue Jia Jun.
The most disgusting thing is the marketing of this film. When you walk into cinemas in China, you will see that almost all the posters are Manjianghong, and the posters of other movies are in the corner. Its screening arrangement is also terrible. Almost all IMAX cinemas near me are used to show Manjianghong, and other movies can only be shown in ordinary projection halls. They fabricated the box office and controlled the reviews and scores of major rating websites in China. Therefore, the film creates the feeling that this is an epic movie and tricks more people into watching it to increase the box office. On the Cat's Eye Movie website, it scored 9.5, but only 6.8 on IMDb. This is enough to prove how bad the film is and how crazy the control score is.
This makes me completely dislike this movie. If it doesn't do these bad things, it may be an ordinary commercial movie. But based on all the above crimes, my assessment is a RUBBISH MOVIE!