Totti Exorcist: From Excellent to Almost Incomplete.

During the May Day holiday, Xiao Cui finished watching The Exorcist in Totti.

Perhaps because of greater expectation and disappointment, this horror film, which has been nominated for six awards this year, is really not as wonderful as expected.

The douban score of Toti Exorcist is 6.4, which is higher than Nick Cheung's last work Magnolia Shen Gong (5.4). Some netizens commented:

This view is very representative, and Xiao Cui agrees. However, a complete story is not equal to a good story, let alone a good movie.

There are two lines in the plot of this movie. One is the revenge of the evil ghost "black brother", which can be called "terrorist line"; First of all, Fazai (Nick Cheung) and Jiang Xue (Guo Caijie) have a ghost love, which can be called "love line". The two lines are intertwined to promote the development of the plot.

But after reading it, I found that the horror line is not scary, and the love line is not touching, and it is so powerless.

Let's start with horror. The techniques used to create a horrible atmosphere in this film are mainly old-fashioned sound and light, special effects and a surprise. Compared with Magnolia Shen Gong, it has no qualitative improvement, even worse than the latter. "Magnolia Shen Gong" also allows female ghosts to perform acrobatics, and the children in GREAT GHOST in this film are basically translucent in PS, and even feel a little happy after watching it for a long time.

And the hair with a pair of yin and yang eyes, its exorcism means is also lacking. Except once throwing two live chickens at a ghost, his main weapon is a gun-a mouth gun.

Compared with an exorcist armed to the teeth,

Or the ghost-hunting duo in "Evocation 2" is fully equipped.

It is obviously monotonous to rely only on yin and yang eyes and a mouth.

In order to deal with the vicious big boss "Black Brother", Fazai used the Monkey King's unique skill-moving reinforcements.

Specifically, just don't be too dramatic. For Xiao Cui, who is looking forward to watching a battle between good and evil, it is unexpected and disappointing enough.

After the disappearance of BOSS, the story seems to be coming to an end. However, this movie took more than ten minutes to describe the love between Fazi and Jiang Xue. Where will you go in the end?

The problem is that in the previous space, the "terror line" was the main line, which attracted the attention of most viewers; As a secondary line, the "love line" is relatively weak and difficult to impress people, although it is also portrayed and paved.

Playing and playing, the main line came to an abrupt end, and the sub-line became the only plot line. This structure is awkward.

So although it was very emotional in the end, it was still difficult for the audience to resonate.

In addition, the problem of unclear details in The Fantasy of Magnolia has been improved in this film, but it still exists.

For example, on the poster, Nick Cheung's cool tattoo is very eye-catching, which makes people wonder what role it plays in exorcism.

However, in the film, this tattoo is basically covered by clothes. It was not until the end of the film that a short shot was hastily used to explain the origin of the tattoo.

According to Xiao Cui's guess, this tattoo should be an "enchantment" to seal the entanglement of hair and prevent it from spreading.

But the film doesn't have too many performances and hints.

It should be an important "prop", but it should not be used well.

At the end of the film, the "Eyeless" Xueyou brother is wearing a black umbrella, and his identity is also a mystery, which should pave the way for the sequel.

Nick Cheung is a favorite actor of Xiao Cui, but there is no doubt that he still has a long way to go in directing.

Let's bless and look forward to it together!

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