There's a lot of reviewers here saying this movie has wooden acting and is full of cliches and has a predictable plot. I'm not going to disagree.
But I'm willing to bet most if not all of these reviewers are westerners and not native chinese. I have a chinese girlfriend and we watch A LOT of king fu movies as she loves them (and hey so do I) all made in China or HK, and I'm telling you this is exactly like one of those movies, in fact it IS one of those movies.
It just happens this movie has some English dialogue and casts Keanu Reeves as the token "nasty westerner" - again another typical Chinese movie cliche - I'm guessing before his return to fame in John Wick.
So yeah this movie is cliched and predictable and the acting and dialogue are wooden.....but that's what Chinese action movies are like., in fact I'd say this is top notch as far as this genre is concerned. We just have different standards/expectations in the west.
But I'm willing to bet most if not all of these reviewers are westerners and not native chinese. I have a chinese girlfriend and we watch A LOT of king fu movies as she loves them (and hey so do I) all made in China or HK, and I'm telling you this is exactly like one of those movies, in fact it IS one of those movies.
It just happens this movie has some English dialogue and casts Keanu Reeves as the token "nasty westerner" - again another typical Chinese movie cliche - I'm guessing before his return to fame in John Wick.
So yeah this movie is cliched and predictable and the acting and dialogue are wooden.....but that's what Chinese action movies are like., in fact I'd say this is top notch as far as this genre is concerned. We just have different standards/expectations in the west.