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After being reminded by Chen Qiming, Liu Weiqiang finally reluctantly put down the microphone and announced the start of the movie.

Like the first film, "Feng Yun" focuses on special effects.

At the beginning of the movie, a group of martial arts masters including Nie Feng and Bu Jingyun were imprisoned in a dungeon.

The story unfolds slowly.

Jue Wu Shen (Simon Yam) of Wu Jue Shrine led his son Jue Xin (Sun Yaowei) to send an army to China, and successively deceived and captured the current emperor and a group of martial arts figures in an attempt to force the heroes to surrender.

Even the martial arts myth Wuming (Zhang Yimou), Bu Jingyun (Chen Qiming) and Nie Feng (Leon Lai) were defeated and injured one after another when they joined forces to fight Jue Wushen.

Thanks to the guidance of the Pig King (Lin Xue), Nie Feng and Bu Jingyun fled to the Gate of Life and Death with Chu Chu (Xu Shujuan).

Later, the two were taught by Wuming and the First Evil Emperor, and their martial arts improved greatly.

During this period, Nie Feng finally met the second dream (Li Ruotong) of his life.

However, Jue Wushen's army came to the city, and Nie Feng did not hesitate to break through the barrier in order to save Second Meng.

It turns out that the real purpose of Juewu God's invasion of the Central Plains is all related to the Dragon Tomb, an ancient tomb of a royal family. According to legend, whoever obtains the secret of the Dragon Tomb can command the world and have the supreme power to control China and serve the people.

The fate of the Central Plains is at stake, and the survival of the martial arts world is even more imminent.Inside the Dragon Tomb, Bu Jingyun, Nie Feng and Jue Wushen launched a shocking battle that would determine life and death.

After the war, Nie Feng, who had become a demon, took the dragon bone to Niejia Village and used the dragon bone to restore his true nature.

At the last moment, Nie Feng was determined to steal the dragon's bones with the general, and regained his demonic nature to fight Bu Jingyun fiercely.

Nie Feng killed Chu Chu, Bu Jingyun disappeared after using Ba Sword to get rid of the evil eye, and Nie Feng returned to his true nature.

Compared to the first one, the quality of this one has generally declined.

There is nothing we can do about it. Throughout film history, except for a few movies, most sequel movies will suffer from a decline in quality.

The reason for this is mainly on the audience's side.

The first film appealed to the audience's taste. If the quality of the second film does not break through, it will naturally be regarded as a decline in quality by film critics.

The same is true for "Wind and Cloud 2".

For the audience, this drama is impressive and a special effects blockbuster worth watching.

But for film critics whose tastes are never well understood.

No breakthrough in quality means slipping quality.

Therefore, when the premiere ended that day, a lot of negative comments about "Wind and Cloud 2" immediately appeared in the media the next day.

The first is the film review from Oriental Daily.

"The storyline of the film is not complete enough. In terms of storyline, there is a lack of necessary plot foreshadowing, and the story unfolds a bit abruptly.

Most of the time is used to show the charm of special effects. The 100-minute feature film does not end perfectly at the end.

As a sequel movie, "Wind and Cloud II" is really lacking in the explanation of the relationship between the characters and the connection between the development of the story before and after. The story is too simple and youthful. ——Five points! "

Subsequently, Ming Pao also gave an unfriendly evaluation of "Wind and Cloud 2".

“The arrangement of the film’s civil and military scenes is not reasonable enough.

Compared with the dazzling martial arts drama, the literary drama has almost become a foil, with only 200 lines in [-] minutes.

There are also dozens of sentences wasted by Vivian Hsu and Li Ruotong calling "Brother Feng" and "Brother Yun", which makes people seriously doubt that the director's only role in arranging these two vase characters is to call them "Brother".

The emotional scenes are weak, and the love scenes in the film are also confusing. There is no foreshadowing, no plot, and no climax. The world is still the same world, but there is no love anymore.

Among the male protagonists, except for Chen Qiming, whose acting skills are as good as ever, the others, including Li Ming, are all martial arts machines. They don't even move their eyebrows when facing beautiful women.As for the martial arts part, the last third of the film seems a bit lengthy. The final boss, Jue Wushen, dies early, making the film end up as an exhibition match between the two brothers. However, the performance is not Tai Chi, but the Landslide and Earth Splitting style. of collisions and blows.Overall, the story and emotional drama are not enough! ——Four points! "

Two consecutive professional film review media gave negative reviews, causing "The Storm 2" to encounter serious word-of-mouth doubts after its release.

At one point, the audience who was waiting to watch even started to retreat.

But fortunately.

If there are negative comments, there will naturally be positive ones.

On the third day after its release, the Hong Kong Film Journal finally issued a review of this film.

And it is a very objective and positive review.

“This is a movie well worth going to the theater to see.

The film combines story and special effects very smoothly. The entire film was shot based on blue backgrounds and specially made real scenes, with a large number of rich Chinese-style scene settings and costumes that are loyal to the original work.

In terms of special effects processing, the modern visual images are perfectly combined with the elegant and light martial arts tradition of the new martial arts.

Combining local culture, computer stunts, solid martial arts and video language, the characters, plot and special effects are perfectly integrated to create a brand new martial arts world.

In addition, editor Chen Qiming grasped the direction of the story well and let technology serve the content and characters. This is especially the prerequisite for the success of fantasy themes that require special effects. He maximized the three-dimensional comic language into sound and light images, which is loyal and high-end. Create your own style based on the original work.

"The Storm 2" has set a very good example for Hong Kong movies with exquisite special effects and genre movies.

It breaks the traditional restrictions on Hong Kong films and pushes Hong Kong films to a new peak. This will be another milestone for Hong Kong films.

It creates a very good start for Hong Kong movies to become blockbusters! "

Chen Qiming doesn’t know who wrote this article.

After reading this article, he felt a little embarrassed.

It's really a bit exaggerated.

Milestones, peaks, examples...

These words were all applied to "Wind and Cloud 2", which made him feel quite ashamed.

In fact, after the film was completed, Chen Qiming knew after watching the finished film that this film was really not as good as the first one.

It’s not that it wasn’t a good shot.

The main reason is that when Chen Qiming was preparing this script, because he was too busy, he didn't polish the script carefully at all, and just copied it according to the "Wind and Cloud II" in Mengli in [-].

You know, in the dream, there was six years between the two dramas of Fengyun.

Six years later, the differences in directors and screenwriters directly gave the two films a sense of separation.

This is also the reason why Oriental Daily said in its review that the plots of the two movies did not match each other.

However, although he was ashamed, Chen Qiming was still very happy that someone could give such a good evaluation.

Because this will have a huge impact on the movie’s box office.

Hong Kong Film Magazine is originally the most professional film weekly in Hong Kong, specializing in publishing film reviews.

In Hong Kong, the influence of this film weekly is very large.

Its high ratings can really affect the movie box office.

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