Triple A Movie Review: Guardians of the Tomb (2018), An Australian-Chinese Horror Film

This Australian-Chinese film, which combines the characteristics of various types of films such as adventure, disaster, and horror, is unique in the same type of film. It is called the most scary co-production in recent years. Especially the horrible visual effects are creepy. In this film, you can see sudden dust storms, air explosions, unrecognizable millennium corpses, baby cradle entangled by spider silk, smashed out from the body, densely crawling corps, mutated giant spider king, and spiders attacking granules. What’s more, the realistic effects of the big spider suddenly fly out. The tragic scene of the two search and rescue team members who were dragged into the coffin by the spider army is very scary.

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All of this makes the audiences who have spider phobia and intensive phobias upside down and dare not look it. It is recommended that timid friends must bring your friends and family to watch together, because if you are not brave enough, you might directly be terrified.

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In the aspect of treasure hunt exploration, the film incorporates a lot of Chinese traditional culture, in the process of avoiding spiders and fleeing the underground palace. In the crack of various ingenious organs, such as the flame pontoon, revolving door, boulder tunnel, this film also used a lot of Chinese traditions. Li Bingbing, with the American fierce boy Kellan Lutz, and the younger brother Wu Chun completed a Chinese version of "Tomb Raider." This time, the role played by Li Bingbing is very strong, not only fluent in English, but also particularly brave and confident, even the search and rescue team captain has become his helper.

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The atmosphere of the whole film is very exciting, and it has been pulling the audience to explore and pass the customs. However, the memories of her and her brother’s lost in the labyrinth are too frequent when she was a child. Basically, she sit down and recall to her memories. It slows down the rhythm of the whole film. Also, it has a certain influence on the compactness and coherence of going through the road, finding a way out, and searching for a younger brother.

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In the end, the big match up with the giant spiders was not enough. It was also expected to have a positive battle. I didn’t expect the giant spiders to spit out the screen to kill two people. After Wu Cun hit the "fire" organs, the tombs exploded. Then the big boss is so easy to die. What’s more, it is also not very reasonable for the survivors to escaped from the ascension in this way. The spider spit out of the little girl's mouth, although scary, but it seems to be somewhat unreasonable.

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But overall, as a horror film, the film is still above the standard, it is worth watching.
The theme of "violation of the laws of nature, greed for selfish greed and inevitably killing the souls will inevitably be retaliated and countered by nature" is also positive, which brings viewers to reflect.

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Movie URL: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/409582-nest?language=en-US
Critic: AA
영화: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/409582-nest?language=ko-KR
별점: AA