No one will forget the scene in "The Seven Deadly Sins" where Brad is like a stake and is blown up by Hugo's wonderful performance, which even made the duel between Hugo and Brad lose its suspense for a while. Not only the "Seven Deadly Sins", but also the "Burning Years" before that when Brad was nominated for the Golden Globe, he was still criticized; "Interview with the Vampire" Ryblad's light is also stolen by Tom Cruise.

It can be said that in the past two years, Brad has been completely inferior in the duel with Hugo, which is also an important reason why people have always put Brad in the position of shocker.

This time, the duel between "Twelve Monkeys" and "Death Row Prisoners", people once expected the result, "Twelve Monkeys" has an advantage at the box office due to the innate advantage of the subject matter; "Death Row Walk" led the way in terms of word-of-mouth, and Hugo proved himself again.

After the screening of "Death Row Prisoner Walk", things seem to have developed in the same way, but the "Twelve Monkeys", who were almost ignored during the screening, officially declared their refusal to admit defeat.

Although the popularity of the screening is more than one or two steps behind "Death Row Walk", the film review written by the critics for "Twelve Monkeys" shows that this is a very good work! Among the first batch of 14 film reviews, three media outlets gave full marks of 100 points, namely "Rolling Stone", "Austin Pravda" and "Christian Science Monitor. christian。 sce。 monitor）。

This is an interesting situation, because none of the three newspapers wrote reviews of the "Death Row Walk", especially the "Rolling Stones", which is one of the most influential newspapers in North America, and the perfect score of "Rolling Stones" is very weighty compared to the other two newspapers whose influence is limited to their state.

"Rolling Stone"'s disregard for Hugo and glory to death has never been a secret in the circle. This time, "Rolling Stone" ignored "Death Row Walk" and gave "Twelve Monkeys" a perfect score, which made people have to think a little more.

In addition to these three media outlets, "USA Today", "San Francisco Observer", "TV Guide", and "The Globe and Mail" all gave a super high rating of 88. If anyone can compare, the "Globe and Mail" can almost be said to be a media that hates Hugo, and the other three media outlets' ratings of "Death Row Walk" are also really intriguing.

The Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Sun, and the New York Times all rated the "Twelve Monkeys" below 70; The lowest of these was the San Francisco Chronicle, which scored only 30 points – another assessment worth pondering, especially in today's context.

In the end, the media comprehensive evaluation of "Twelve Monkeys" came to 72 points, although it is not as good as "Walking on Death Row", nor as good as "Seven Deadly Sins" released not long ago, but for the thriller and suspense genre, this is still a very satisfactory score, especially the works that are determined to strive for box office success.

Among the many reviews, the two leading actors of Bruce Willis and Brad are also highly praised, especially "Austin Pravda" said in the review, "Brad gave the best performance of his career so far, and his wonderful and tense performance injected infinite vitality into the film." ”

Not only "Austin Pravda", but many media have said that Brad's performance in "Twelve Monkeys" is impressive, sweeping away the decadence completely suppressed by Hugo in "The Seven Deadly Sins", and re-allowing people to see Brad's aura and talent during the "Big River Love" period. Moreover, Brad's excellent performance also stole countless styles from the actor Bruce and became the biggest highlight of the whole movie.

Feng Shui takes turns, and finally it turns to Brad!

Although Hugo's stunning performance in "Death Row Walk" has received numerous high praises, it undoubtedly diminishes Brad's brilliance; But it must be admitted that "Twelve Monkeys" gave Brad a chance to turn over, and his wonderful performance won everyone's unanimous appreciation, under the operation of Martin Baum's back, the media public opinion swept away the previous low-key and decadent, and even many people began to justify Brad's performance in the "Seven Deadly Sins", "At least Brad's appearance in the last confrontation scene is very good."

This also made Brad's momentum re-raise his head, and at the same time, it also made the duel between "Twelve Monkeys" and "Death Row Walk" find suspense again. At least the overall word-of-mouth trend of these two works is on the same level, which also makes the duel no longer a one-sided situation.

The so-called "competitors" are bound to be carried out between two or more people who are evenly matched and have wins and losses against each other, and if it is only a one-sided crush, this cannot be called competition. And now, the "Twelve Monkeys" have the ability to go head-to-head - and even win - against the Death Row Walk!

For many years to come, it was widely believed that the "Burning Years" of 1994, the "Night Interview with the Vampire" and the "Seven Deadly Sins" of 1995 made Brad what made him; But in fact, people who really know the situation in the circle know that what makes Brad a top superstar and qualified to compete with Hugo and Tom is not the "Seven Deadly Sins" starring Brad with a box office of nearly 200 million, but the "Twelve Monkeys" in which Brad appears as a supporting role.

Not only because "Twelve Monkeys" made insiders really recognize Brad's efforts in acting, but also because this movie also allowed Brad to steal the protagonist's light as a supporting role, and really has the ability to attract and call on the audience.

After "Twelve Monkeys" won excellent reviews among critics, the theater score also received a super high recognition of "A-", which can be seen from this score that at least in the minds of the audience, "Twelve Monkeys" is more watchable than "Death Row Walk". Universal Pictures defines "Twelve Monkeys" as a box office commercial film, which is also inevitable.

However, at present, "Twelve Monkeys" and "Death Row Prisoner Walk" are only screened in three theaters, so the showdown between the two is still full of suspense.

In the third week of December, Jumanji comfortably topped the North American weekend box office charts with a $11 million debut, ending a three-game toy streak at the end of the "Toy Story" streak. It is worth mentioning that "The Line of Fire," which brought together Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, also premiered this week, and ended up in third place with a weekend box office of $8.5 million.

This week's hot topic is undoubtedly very numerous, and the premiere battle between "Jumanji" and "Thief Line" has also attracted a lot of attention; "Toy Story" entered its fourth week of screening, grossing a total of $97 million, setting a precedent for 3D computer animation and winning the recognition of audiences......

Still, the showdown between "Death Row Walk" and "Twelve Monkeys" attracted the most attention.

Thanks to AMC's strong crowd, "Twelve Monkeys", which itself has the potential for commercial films, took the lead, and the box office of $60,000 in a single museum almost amazed the entire North American market.

In the current film history records, there are only five works that exceeded 50,000 at the box office in a single theater on the opening weekend, "Schindler's List", "Edward Scissorhands", "Kiss of the Spider Woman", "The Joy Luck Club", "Howard Manor"! Even the "Before Sunrise" premiere weekend, which dominated the topic at the beginning of the year, only earned $43,000 per theater.

And now, "Twelve Monkeys" actually set a box office of 60,000 US dollars in a single theater in one fell swoop, directly surpassing "Kiss of the Spider Woman", only behind "Schindler's List" and "Edward Scissorhands", becoming the third place in the box office list of the opening weekend in film history.

Just this one number can show the great achievements of the "Twelve Monkeys".

The main reason why "Twelve Monkeys" was able to achieve such strong results and even directly rank among the top three in history is Brad! Relying on the super popularity accumulated in the past three works, Brad has become the most powerful actor in the past two years. In the limelight of "Feeling Idol", Brad has surpassed Hugo, who has been named the world's sexiest man by People magazine for two consecutive years, and is at the top of the list of dream lovers.

Although in the eyes of public opinion, the "Seven Deadly Sins" was almost robbed of all the brilliance by Hugo, but no one can deny that this movie is starring Brad, and the box office of 195 million US dollars has also made Brad's audience recognition and box office appeal to a higher level.

"Twelve Monkeys" came strongly in such a situation, the theme itself has box office potential, and the quality of the finished product has been unanimously affirmed by critics and audiences, and Bruce himself is a first-line actor with box office appeal, coupled with Brad's effect, and finally detonated a single box office of 60,000 US dollars, stunning the entire North American market.

Although people have already recognized that the "Twelve Monkeys" are capable of achieving the box office, if not 100 million US dollars at the box office, at least 60 million or 70 million dollars; However, in the face of such an outstanding single-theater box office at the time of the screening, all the news media were still in an uproar, and Universal Pictures was even more overjoyed, and almost ready to start beating gongs and drums to celebrate the victory.

This is indeed a victory, regardless of the results of "Death Row Walk", it is a heavy breakthrough for "Twelve Monkeys", and it is an important turning point in Brad's career, Brad is indeed a long sigh of relief, after the blow of "Seven Deadly Sins", he needs the victory of "Twelve Monkeys" to boost his morale. And the truth is, he did!

As a film with a slightly inferior reputation and brighter commercial prospects, the strong competitiveness of "Twelve Monkeys" at the box office of a single museum makes this showdown even more exciting; In the face of the menacing momentum of competitors, "Death Row Walk" also handed over its own answer sheet, showing a fearless attitude, fighting for the box office of a single hall with a single hall box office, and declaring its sense of existence with absolute strength.

Mars hit the Earth and has officially caused a sensational explosion!