Tom Cruise made "Mission Impossible 5" at the age of 56, Jackie Chan made "Vanguard" at the age of 65, and Stallone made "Daredevil 4" at the age of 72.....
It seems that the action movie market has always been the domain of male actors.
Until the release of "Extremely Cold City", 42-year-old Charlize Theron used stunning hand-to-hand combat scenes to justify the name of the female star.
In fact, from "Agent Schott" to "Anna" to "New Thunderbolt Baby", in recent years, a large number of brave and warlike female stars have emerged on the screen.
Although these movies are not particularly good, they can also be called pure action movies with high-level heroines.
However, "Black Widow" and "Gunpowder Milkshake" have two action movies in succession, but they have poured cold water on the Hollywood "girl-fighting" boom.
The reputation of "Black Widow" is not satisfactory, both reasonable and unexpected.
On the one hand, the positioning is inaccurate, and there is no in-depth "Black Widow" character to dig into the story behind it.
On the other hand, the form of the whole story is greater than the content, and the plot is bland.
And "Gunpowder Shake" is even more surprising from the plot and scenes.
R-rated, action, beauty, revenge... None of these key elements are missing.
It seems that if you find an actress at random, train for a while, with exquisite action design and appropriate double switching, you can shoot an action movie with a female protagonist.
But in fact, this is not the case.
Since the "Fast And Furious" fire, the action movie trend of the revenge series, combined with the awakening of female consciousness, seems to be a very good choice.
In "Gunpowder Milkshake", you can see the figure of many famous actresses.
Lena Heidi in Game of Thrones and Karen Gillan in Guardians of the Galaxy.
In addition, there is also the joining of Yang Ziqiong, the queen of Chinese kung fu.
According to such a cast, the producers deliberately want to make "Gunpowder Milkshake" into a female version of "Fast And Furious".
However, the action scene of Miss Gillan can only be described as "flower fist embroidered legs".
On the contrary, it is the supporting role of Yang Ziqiong, showing the style of a generation of women.
The framework of the story is similar to the world structure in "Fast And Furious".
In Gunpowder Shake, there is a neutral organization, like the setting of the "Continental Hotel".
Fifteen years ago, Samantha's mother (Played by Lina Heidi) was surrounded and hunted down by the organization for breaking the rules.
Forced to do so, she had to entrust her daughter to others to raise adults.
Fifteen years later, Samantha (played by Karen Gillan) has long since become the industry's top killer.
On this day, the organization assigned her a task, mainly to recover the huge amount of money that had been stolen.
As a result, when she found the suspect, she learned that the other party's daughter had been kidnapped by another gang.
Samantha took the little girl's body and reminded her of her poor and helpless time before, so she decided to save the little girl.
As a result, when she rescued the little girl, she found that her father was dead.
Later, she learned that the gang had deliberately kidnapped the little girl in order to threaten her father with stealing a huge amount of money for himself.
However, it was her kindness that accidentally killed the son of the gang boss, and as a result, she was hunted down and killed by the organization.
On the one hand, it is to save the former self, and on the other hand, it is to compromise with the organization.
In the end, Samantha chose the former.
While hiding from the chase, Samantha met her mother.
It turned out that in the past 15 years, although her mother had not been around to accompany her, she had never left her and had been secretly protecting her daughter.
After learning the truth, Samantha also forgave her mother, and the mother and daughter fought side by side to defeat the enemy.
Looking at it this way, the plot is actually very simple.
However, there are two plot points that are handled more bluntly.
One is the scene where the mother and daughter meet, and because of a word, the daughter forgives the mother, which is too sloppy.
The other is the little girl and Samantha, in the face of their father's enemy, they can actually form a deep friendship, which is a bit unreasonable.
Of course, the flaws in the story, as long as they do not affect the action scenes, are actually not much of a problem.
But in fact, the results presented are not satisfactory.
First of all, the quality of the action scenes is completely on par with "Fast Pursuit".
In the film, Karen Gillan's movements look less smooth and coordinated, and the look and feel is particularly blunt.
From beginning to end, most of the action scenes, the director uses a rapid editing method, making the action scenes as a whole incoherent.
Secondly, Yang Ziqiong, as a generation of martial arts actresses, in front of her, Karen Gillan's performance dwarfed.
To this end, the director tried to use the role of hot weapons to cover up the shortcomings in the action scene.
In this way, it does not match the original positioning and does not look like an action movie.
Therefore, if you ignore all the fight scenes, the film as a whole will appear very mediocre.
All in all, in the name of "big heroine" and "action movie", "Gunpowder Milkshake" is not as exciting as imagined.
From this movie, we can also see the preciousness of being a female star.
In my opinion, "Gunpowder Shake" only has a score of 5.8 on Douban, which is completely expected.