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"Wonderful visual effects, compact rhythm control, humorous lines and dialogues, climax/climax plot settings...all revolve around a clear and clear main story, fast forward, and the burst of adrenaline makes the movie watching process It has become a kind of enjoyment, you just need to relax and devote yourself to this summer feast!"

Michael-Kaltenbach, a professional film critic of "Variety" magazine, gave a huge award of 85 points. Not only the scores, but also the reviews, can see their appreciation for the film.

The most authoritative professional magazines in Hollywood are divided into two mountains, "Variety Show" and "Hollywood Reporter". The views of these two magazines are not only the most professional, but also most concentratedly represent the views of insiders. Every year during the awards season, the opinions of the two magazines can often represent the trend, and their influence on professionals in the circle is also the most powerful.

Of course, in addition to awards season, people are also very willing to refer to the opinions of these two magazines during the summer vacation. This time, "Variety Show" gave affirmative approval.

In an in-depth review, Variety magazine said, "Lancelot Strelow showed his flair for camera transitions and pacing in 'City of God', this time in 'The Day After Tomorrow'." 'Among them, he demonstrated his ability to control the big scene and control his emotions.

As a commercial film, "The Day After Tomorrow" has relatively limited room for development. Strelo resolutely gave up the excavation of humanistic care that he was good at, and concentrated all his energy on rhythm control and overall scheduling, showing the audience a world The grand plan of doomsday permeates the despair of fear and panic through the screen, and the perfect combination of visual effects and plot really sounded the alarm for the danger of the greenhouse effect.

At the same time, Strelo's excavation and outline of details can still feel his excellence. Under the relatively weak plot line, the ridicule of the government/government, the concern for ethnic minorities, and the world pattern The hints and so on are revealed in the details, humorous and wise, which makes the end of the world created by the movie more in-depth and more valuable for discussion.

Needless to say, 'The Day After Tomorrow' is a mature, brilliant, and enjoyable summer entry. "

It can be seen that Michael's praise for "The Day After Tomorrow" is all-round, and finally reflected in the evaluation of 85 points, which is really very rare for a popcorn commercial movie. However, just as the audience's comments on "The Day After Tomorrow" were polarized, "The Day After Tomorrow" naturally failed to escape the shackles of mixed reputation and criticism in the eyes of film critics. severe criticism.

"The Hollywood Reporter" professional film critic Mick-LaSalle (Mick-LaSalle) said in the review, "Don't even ask whether we should treat 'The Day After Tomorrow' as a work worthy of serious discussion, because it is not worth it. Don't take it seriously at all."

Such a simple and rude comment almost pushed "the day after tomorrow" to hell, with only a score of 25 points, the lowest score among the first batch of comments. Although optimists would say that there are at least 25 points left, such a score is enough to raise eyebrows even for a commercial film.

"The weak storyline is almost fragmented, and the first half of the movie has almost no plot at all - even for a disaster movie, this is unbearable - storm, storm, storm, VFX is like a tornado After generally smashing all the plots to pieces, computer special effects bombarded the big screen for an hour, and finally some plots appeared, but the storm, storm, storm that followed brought all the stories to pieces. Turned into mud.

To sum up the movie "The Day After Tomorrow" in one sentence: disaster comes, disaster goes. "

Mick almost relentlessly criticized the film in all directions, and even Lance was no exception.

"'City of God' allows us to witness the birth of a talented director, and 'The Day After Tomorrow' allows us to witness the fall of a talented director. This is Hollywood.

Lancelot Strelow showed strong control in his debut feature, and his mature and wise scheduling ability is impressive; but in the commercial film "The Day After Tomorrow", Strelow Luo has become an inferior version of Michael Bay. The mixture of visual effects and bombardment is like a well-made music video without any plot support. Simple, the most rustic visual pleasure - and Strelow's ability to play with explosions is far inferior to that of Michael Bay.

From brilliant genius director to spliced ​​shot and shoddy amateur director, Strelo only takes one movie and one Academy Awards interval. "

Mick's criticism is undoubtedly all-round, but he also said at the end of the review that 25 points were given to the computer special effects production team, which is the only highlight of the whole movie.

The sharp and tit-for-tat confrontation between "Variety Show" and "Hollywood Reporter" can be said to be a unique scene in Hollywood, which complements the polarization of the audience and has become the most obvious feature after the premiere of "The Day After Tomorrow". In fact, this is exactly the condensed blueprint for the first reviews of "The Day After Tomorrow"!

Thanks to the particularity of this year's summer schedule, under the concerted efforts of the eight major Hollywood film companies, almost everyone focused their attention on "The Day After Tomorrow", which made the film have already won a lot of attention before its premiere. , the summer file in May debuted vigorously under the eyes of the public.

After the premiere ceremony, the two mountains of "Variety Show" and "Hollywood Reporter" wrote film reviews immediately, which is actually the most direct portrayal. Obviously, these are not the only two magazines that conduct professional reviews. All major newspapers have given positive reports on each page, and more than 200 media have concentrated bombardment, so that "the day after tomorrow" has finally surpassed the topic of this year's summer vacation in one fell swoop. The focus, "Troy", briefly became the focus of focus in the first week of May.

Amidst the intense media attention, the first batch of professional film critics for "The Day After Tomorrow" also ushered in an explosive upsurge. Including "Variety Show" and "Hollywood Reporter", as many as sixteen media outlets immediately The film reviews were released, and people paid attention to this summer film that opened the door to welcome guests, and kicked off the summer film battle with the highest standard.

Just like the characteristics of popcorn commercial movies, "The Day After Tomorrow" made its debut amidst the criticisms of film critics, and it was like ushering in a feast of criticism.

The "Los Angeles Times" only gave a bad score of 40 points, "The story is really too stupid, too childish, and too naive, which almost makes the whole movie watching process unable to settle down. An eight-year-old child is generally unable to restrain the urge to go to the bathroom frequently."

The San Francisco Chronicle's review was similar, with a score of forty out of 10 paired with the dreaded review, "There are few films that do: so heroic, so grand, so grand, and yet so So futile, so stupid, so dull."

The film review of the "Seattle Post" is very interesting, "This is a very bad movie, but it is very enjoyable; the dialogue of the lines often makes people drowsy, but there is no shortage of wise and humorous passages." 50 points evaluation It can be seen that they are neutral.

The score of "Daily News" is also 50 points, "It's like Bush and Cheney's package, even if the Democrats are smart, they will lose to such a 'clumsy' combination. The movie also tells us in this way, Even a director as talented as he made 'City of God' would make such a stupid, boring movie like 'Independence Day' or 'Apocalypse' and it's going to be silent in the second week Another summer 'magnum opus'."

They not only ridiculed "the day after tomorrow", but also made fun of the president and vice president at the time, which really made people laugh.

The comments of "U.S. Weekly" are quite a bit like iron and steel, "Like all disaster movies, the camera perspective is always locked on the rich and colorful personal life, as if when the disaster strikes, the focus of the whole world is on The focus on these few people is so-so, and the mass death and escape elsewhere has become a foil. "The Day After Tomorrow" maintains the weight of the entire movie on Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal- Obviously, the two of them couldn't bear such a weight.

Lancelot Strelow has surprised us and we expect him to be different. But alas, he let us down. "

The score of "U.S. Weekly" is only 55 points. It can be deeply felt that they had more and more expectations for "the day after tomorrow", but it is a pity that the super high expectations turned into bubbles in the end. .

In fact, this is also the situation that everyone is worried about before the movie is released: excessive attention will often make expectations reach a high standard, which is a double-edged sword. If the movie meets expectations after its release, it will detonate the box office market; But if the situation is slightly unsatisfactory, it will lead to an avalanche. At that time, it will be difficult to find an intermediate value for the works.

This is the case with "The Day After Tomorrow" now. After the confrontation between "Variety Show" and "Hollywood Reporter", the criticism from the media is almost overwhelming. You can clearly feel the huge pressure on the shoulders of "The Day After Tomorrow", especially in the Under the special circumstances of this year's summer vacation, "the day after tomorrow" has fallen into a situation where there is no way out.

However, just like the absolute authority of "Variety Show", their praise for "The Day After Tomorrow" is obviously not a single tree that cannot be supported by a weak force. On the contrary, corresponding to the voice of criticism, the voice of praise and support has reached an unimaginable height—— It even far exceeded expectations, completely detonating the energy of this commercial popcorn movie!