King of Kung Fu Jackie Chan loses out in the Chinese New Year slot, so why was "The Divine Detective Pu Sung Ling" abandoned by audiences after 4 days in theaters?

Carol Chan's "The Hurt Locker" isn't a bad movie from the perspective of commercial cinema, but it's a bad movie that doesn't fit the mold when it comes to Chinese fantasy movies.

There are several reasons why Jackie Chan's latest costume fantasy film, "The Divine Detective", flopped at the box office.

No. 1: "Detective Pope" is not Jackie Chan's area of expertise

Carlone is of course good at action-comedy, with a mature industrial sector such as the Jackie Chan family class, which has decades of filming with a deep accumulation of experience.

When Jackie Chan gets old and makes another movie, he will only try to do it in the field of kung-fu action movie, and kung-fu action movie related fields. If you go beyond that, don't mention any literary dramas.

Even if it is an anti-Japanese war movie like "Flying Tiger" or a sci-fi action movie like "Blood of the Machine", Jackie Chan will not be able to make it.

While also featuring plenty of action sequences, they also possess an unfamiliar comb-over with the action-comedy formula that Jackie Chan has long specialized in. But Jackie Chan then shoots the action-comedies he specializes in, in post-Zodiac productions such as Kung Fu Yoga and Jedi Escape, to name a few.

C Jackie Chan is limited to age, ultimately, regardless of the action design, or other aspects, will result in a large number of action design, to reuse the comedy bridge, etc., the audience naturally no longer buy Zhang.

In recent years, Jackie Chan's only critically acclaimed movie, British Versus, has a role that matches Jackie Chan's age. The old, aging figure, the inability to fight, the insistence on dying, combined with the European and American-directed plot, it's really quite wonderful.

This "Sleuth Pusongling", because it is a Chinese fantasy film, there are a lot of magic fighting scenes in the film, for Jackie Chan to excel in the action comedy aspect, naturally there is not much performance.

2nd, China's fantasy and magic movie has been rotten

Nearly a decade, since 2002 Zhang Yimou's "Hero", Chinese films are filled with a large number of costume blockbusters, but the type of subject matter are historical wuxia, and fantasy and magic is not much.

After 2008's "Painted Skin 1" or 2010's Tsui Hark's "Dee Yan Jie's Empire of Heaven," there was Stephen Chow's "Journey to the West," which was the first Chinese movie to be released. After that came Stephen Chow's "Journey to the West" series, Paul Cheng's "Journey to the West" series, Xu Chengyi's "Demon Hunter" series, and so on.

The above mentioned big-selling fantasy and magic movie, the word of mouth quality are not many. Not to mention the other "Zhong Kui Fu Demon," "Legend of the Sealed God," "Three Lives, Three Worlds, Ten Peach Blossoms," "The Great Wall," "Legend of the Descending Dragon," "Qi Men Dunjia," "Monsters of the Forest," and so on.

Chinese fantasy and magic blockbusters have long been stunk up by those movies in the market.

Chinese audiences have become aesthetically fatigued by these movies, and their acceptance has naturally declined.

3rd, "Detective Pu Songling" special effects over the top but mediocre

The production of special effects in this film is relatively good, but one of the subject matter does not have the sci-fi "Wandering Planet" of the groundbreaking freshness. For two, the special effects in this movie are decent, but not as stunning as those in "Dee's Four Heavenly Kings".

Secondly, "The Hurt Locker" itself mimics "Demon Hunter," following a similar formula to "Dee's" cinematic take on historical figures. But the level of special effects is not as imaginative as Tsui Hark's (though both suck), and it's not as good as "Dee" at detecting crimes, and it's not as good as "Demon Hunter" at family fun.

The Sleuth feels like it relies on a little bit of everything, but all together it's middling and very mediocre.

Finally, the lack of cultural connotations in Chinese fantasy movies represented by Shen Tan Pu Song Ling

In fact, it's not just Shen Tan Pu Song Ling, it's the same for all Chinese fantasy and magic blockbusters in the last ten years, and there's a huge problem with most of them, except for a very small number of movies.

"Wandering Earth" is now on the air, with its connotations of the Chinese homeland, Chinese thought and culture, much praised by the audience.

These Chinese fantasy and magical movies do not talk about what to react to traditional Chinese culture, they are even the most basic art aesthetic, special effects production above.

In the end, they are not Chinese, not foreign, not trippy, not classy.

It's obviously an oriental fantasy, but there are western castles, western monsters, western art, western aesthetic culture, it's all over the place.

Shen Tan Pu Song Ling is slightly better, not so westernized, but on the other hand, it's completely easternized.

The look of Jackie Chan with the little house demon on top of him behind him, as shown above, plus the appearance of tons of demons inside the main movie. These art aesthetics, production style.

I don't know if you've seen a Japanese movie, Sakai Masato's Kamakura Monogatari.

The art aesthetics, the style of the demons in it, are just like this movie. It's a Chinese fantasy movie that ends up looking like an oriental fantasy movie.

Together with the above reasons, the movie fans naturally do not have a good feeling about the movie, and cannot form a word-of-mouth effect. And the general audience, naturally, has no sense of intimacy, and the box office is poor.

In the end, "Sleuth Pusongling" is just a moderate commercial fantasy film, but if you look deeper into the Chinese fantasy culture, it is a big bad movie.

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