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following the highly acclaimed drama "the past by the water", on september 3, youku white night theater launched the crime suspense drama "snow labyrinth" produced by zhang yimou.

the director of the drama is lv xing, who has directed the highly rated crime suspense drama "the undocumented crime". the lead actor is huang jingyu, who was teased for serving in the military in the domestic entertainment industry. in this drama, he plays a policeman again. zhang yu, who has contributed wonderful acting skills in highly rated films such as "dying to survive" and "nobody", plays the villain jiang xiaohai in this drama.

judging from the cast, this drama seems to be "sure to go". however, the ratings of the drama's first broadcast on cctv-8 were only 0.89%, and the effective broadcast market share of the main film was less than 2%. the reputation of the first five episodes was also slightly inferior.

the drama tells the story of a drug crisis that suddenly broke out in 1997, but the narcotics control bureau had not yet been established. the northeastern city of halan temporarily formed an elite team with different members' specialties. after going through many hardships, they finally caught all the criminals.

in terms of camera language and picture quality, the quality of this drama is online. after all, this is the first time that director zhang yimou has participated in the production of a tv series and served as a producer. netizens think that the film has the texture of a movie and the transitions are well shot.

for example, before the crime, the character was wearing a broken watch on his hand. the camera gave a close-up of the watch, the hands turned quickly, and then the dial became bloody, and the scene shifted to the crime scene - the character was hanging outside the window, his life hanging by a thread, which also foreshadowed the character's ending.

however, the plot arrangement of the drama was criticized for not being fast enough. the main points of the complaints included the long fighting scenes. netizens said that although the fighting scenes were intense, their patience was limited and they were annoyed by the question of "when will the fighting end?"

at the beginning of the first episode, huang jingyu's fighting scene lasted for 1 minute and 27 seconds. the movements were the same over and over again, and were quite repetitive. he either pushed people away, hit them with objects, or threw them over his shoulders. it was easy to make the audience feel tired.

the large number of advertisements once again tested the audience's patience, and many netizens complained that there were too many advertisements in this drama.

the good cast is visible to the naked eye, which makes the investment situation of this drama quite good. there is a 55-second advertisement at the beginning (including pure advertisement and the highlights with advertisement).

this 55-second ad, plus the prelude that reveals huang jingyu's identity (including a lengthy fight scene), and then the opening song... by the time the main film begins, 8 minutes and 26 seconds have passed.

after watching for a while, i saw another lengthy fight scene starting at 9:49, which lasted for 1 minute and 47 seconds. the timeline suddenly reached 11 minutes and 36 seconds.

the audience finally watched for a few more minutes, and around the 16th minute and a half, there was another short commercial break...

short dramas and short videos have reduced the audience's patience to a certain low point. as a crime suspense drama, the first episode should start with a fast pace and suspense to quickly catch the audience's attention, but the first ten minutes of this drama have already worn out the audience's patience.

from the perspective of the actors' acting skills, huang jingyu was criticized the most. in the short reviews that criticized the acting skills, almost all of them were about huang jingyu.

huang jingyu was accused of having too homogeneous acting performances, as the role he played in this drama was almost based on the same template as his previous roles.

netizens complained that he was too pretentious and played himself in every role.

some netizens also said that the show will become interesting after the last 4 or 5 episodes when it gets into the main story of drug enforcement.

perhaps some viewers will be willing to trust zhang yimou's level of supervision and stick with the show for a few more episodes. but judging from the current reputation of the show, it's a bit worrying...