The next day, sure enough, all the media and entertainment pages were brushed by "Ambush on All Sides", most of them were bad reviews, and occasionally good reviews, mostly for the film's pictures, scenery, costumes, etc.

For example, Sohu Entertainment reported: "Ambush on All Sides" shows the consistent style of Zhang Yimou's movies very well: exquisite scene selection. The peony workshop in the film is a high-end entertainment venue in the Tang Dynasty, the entire 360-degree rotunda is gorgeous, and all the carved beams and paintings are finely carved in various peony shapes. In the film, whether it is the bamboo sea or the Ukrainian scenery, they are all serving the movie, showing the rich oriental charm of the movie.

The costumes also broke through the vulgar shapes used in previous martial arts movies, showing uniqueness from the fabric to the shape, such as Liu Dehao and Hu Yifei's fast catchers and hats. In the scene in the Peony Fang, Hu Yifei's satin pants and boots with fine embroidery, Zhang Ziyi's long skirt, three-meter-long water sleeves and embellishments all express the customs of that era.

Cinematographer Zhao Xiaoding also received a lot of praise: "The exterior of the whole film is mostly shot in the forest, and because of the large number of action scenes to be filmed, it is impossible to choose a dense forest or bamboo forest. Therefore, on the one hand, Zhao Xiaoding has to use a suitable optical lens to express the density of the forest, and on the other hand, he uses a long focal length lens to follow the characters, which greatly compresses the space, so what is presented on the screen is a picture with a strong sense of speed that the audience sees, which has also become one of the highlights of this film. ”

It is said that on Metacritic, a foreign film review website, it received an average high score of 89 points based on 37 reviews published. On Rotten Tomatoes, 88% of the 160 reviews gave a positive rating; Metacritic ranked it as the sixth best-received film of 2004.

But no matter how you cover it up, you can't cover up the script full of loopholes.

If the painstaking management of the Flying Knife Gate is just to lure the officers and soldiers of the general state capital to fight to the death, then the next battle book, indicating the time, place, and characters, can be completed. But in this way, the little sister had no chance to see Hu Zhutou, so the whole story disappeared. The story of this movie unfolds from such a premise that it cannot withstand scrutiny, which can only be described as unbelievable.

The end of the film is the biggest failure of the whole film. The little sister was stabbed by Liu Zhutou in the central vein, and after she fell, she repeatedly "died and came back to life" four times, and the false delay of the plot made the audience unbearable. The first two leisurely wake-ups can barely be accepted by the audience, but when Liu Zhutou and Hu Zhutou were both defeated by this, the "corpse" of the little girl in the snow actually stood up again after sleeping for a long time, and she walked and spoke normally, not at all like a dying person.

The little sister pulled out the flying knife on her chest to save Hu Zhutou, and the blood spurted wildly in an instant, who knew that after a while, the little sister opened her eyes tenaciously in Hu Zhutou's arms. Xiaomei's breath is really "hard to swallow".

The much-watched martial arts scenes are also distorted, and the excitement is far from what the audience expected. Even compared with Zhang Yimou's "Hero", it is obviously not at the same level.

The characters' feelings are thin, even Liu Dehao was scolded, and the performance is not a big leap but a big regression, especially when it comes to expressing the contradictory inner world of the characters, it seems too superficial. In the film, Liu Dehao's stiff facial expression is accompanied by a lame line, "Brother, it's not seriously injured!" Coupled with the exaggerated gesture language, it made many viewers laugh.

However, Hu Yifei's performance received a lot of applause, and many media praised him for "his acting skills are not pretentious, natural and casual, and it is really like a gust of wind." Maybe everyone in the movie is pretending, and he is the only one who is true. ”

After the release of "Ambush on All Sides" in China, the criticism from the media and the audience was fierce, which simply exceeded the expectations of the two films.

This is the evil fruit that has been planted at the beginning of the filming of "Ambush on All Sides", except for the reasons of art itself, "Ambush on All Sides" is a wrong film shot at the wrong time. To some extent, "Ambush on All Sides" teaches the film industry a lesson: striking while the iron is hot may not be successful. In fact, Zhang Yimou can't greatly improve his film level in the short term, and in "Ambush on All Sides", in order to maintain the sense of picture in "Hero", he did not hesitate to use colors and four seasons environment, and was more deliberate and lacked common sense in changing the criticism of the story and poor characters, which led to the embarrassment of always laughing in the emotional climax scene of the whole movie.

On the increasingly popular Douban network, the score is only 5.5 points, and the comments complained about below are simply miserable.

"I can't stand it, it's ruined Hu Yifei, I've waited for a year for this effect, I'm disappointed! "Source Code" should be released soon. ”

"Tongqiu "Source Code" will definitely break 100 million this time, and Zhang Yimou will teach him how to make movies."

"For Brother Fei's big breasts, I gritted my teeth and went to see it a second time, and I cheapened Zhang Ziyi."

"Hey, we're the same upstairs. Why is Feige's figure so great, I'm C, you're bigger than me, how did you train it. ”

"Haha, look at Fei Ge's big breasts."

Hu Yifei's Facebook has simply become a concentrated place for fans to complain, and even Fan Binbin began to complain, "The bed-play is so long!" This kind of ambiguous words immediately made countless fans onlookers, and they spoke and ridiculed, "The rumored girlfriend in the main house is jealous, and the master comes to comfort the main house." ”

Lin Zhiling also came to join in the fun, praised Fan Binbin's words, and posted a photo of covering her mouth and snickering.

But in this atmosphere of bad word-of-mouth explosion, the film did affect the box office of the movie.

In the Hong Kong film "Big Event," which was released in June, a group of clever Hong Kong police officers used the media to make a good comeback in front of Hong Kong citizens, salvaging their near-crumbling reputation in the police industry. The role of the media is not to be underestimated, and in the film, the policemen who originally wanted to use the media were eventually burdened by the media and couldn't help themselves. Unexpectedly, more than a month later, around "Ambush on All Sides", the mainland media also really "showed".

This time it was too ruthless, and many media across the country bombarded it almost tacitly, so that everyone understood the power of the media.

On the morning of the premiere, the box office trend of "Ambush on All Sides" was very good, and when it was supposed to perform better in the afternoon, the box office unexpectedly declined. The analysis of many professionals who appeared to say, "It should be after two o'clock in the afternoon, various newspapers have been listed and disseminated, and many media have used the same title as if they were issuing press releases, such as don't be in an ambush on all sides, so it is relatively rare to collectively target a film with such a clear attitude." ”

The person told reporters that the headlines of some media are unbearable, and highly guiding words such as "Ambush on All Sides" deceives people, don't be fooled" will appear on the front page of the newspaper.

As for these reactions from the media, Zhang Weiping's fiery temper almost started without thinking about it.

And then the more he sprayed, the more opponents he squirted, after all, he only had one mouth, how to do it through the national media. At first, he seemed to be angry, but in the end, he could only express his helplessness such as envy of Koreans.

There was a reason for the incident, and the pot was finally returned to Zhang Weiping.

Someone went to interview reporters, and was surprised to find that they seemed to want to target more than "Ambush on All Sides" itself, but to vent an emotion, "We need a right to be treated equally, the producers artificially classify our media, so that most of our media have no possibility of reporting first-hand information, in the face of market competition, the media must also survive, and we entertainment journalists must also survive, we actually just want to tell them, don't take us seriously." ”

"Why don't we love our own films as much as the Korean media?" also requires the producers to reflect on how to treat the media so that they can serve the film willingly.

But in any case, with the end of the ten-day release, "Ambush on All Sides" officially broke 100 million, but it is an indisputable fact, and it once again wrote a box office myth of domestic films.

And the audience and the media, who have been working hard for more than ten days, boiled again on July 18, all focusing on the cinema, to test Hu Yifei's goods together.

The media shouted loudly, "Hu Yifei, this time I am going to inspect your goods!" "They've just won big and are qualified to say that. (To be continued.) )