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Di Renjie zhi shen du Long Wang (2013)
A Solid 7 out of 10 Movie. Well worth watching for the action.
If you enjoy eastern kungfu movies, this is a good one to watch. It has some plots in it as the "detective" name implies. The plots are not so deep, but does a decent job to make you keep guessing as to who is behind the evil plot and what will happen next.
The fight scene is well choreographed and plots are pretty well tied together. The CGI is OK, not great when they try to do the ocean scenes, but much better on land fighting scenes. The slow-motion camera work made up for any flaws.
Dee is portrayed as very cunning and perceptive individual.
At the end of the day, it is a kungfu movie. A decent one to sit through for entertainment and plot intrigue.
Wo hu cang long: Qing ming bao jian (2016)
Not a Academy Award worthy
It's a kungfu movie with English speaking Chinese and International actors. Going with a different director, it was obvious that the martial arts director Yuen Woo Ping's main objective was not going to be the drama or acting.
It was all about the Kung fu, which IS first rate. But the acting or lack there of, totally made this into the B-rated territory.
Both Michelle Yeoh and Donnie Yen's acting were neither believable nor romantic in anyway. Nobody cried, and nobody cared. They just stared at each other expressionless like deers in headlights many many times throughout the movie.
If you were watching this just for the fight scenes, this is the movie for you. If you were expecting it to be entertained by gripping scenes like the original Crouching Tiger movie, skip it.
This movie has no acting and no character appeal. I've seen better video game cut scenes than this full length movie.
Was there a problem with finding Good English speaking actors? Or was it because of the movie being made on the quick and cheap? I lean towards the latter. It's like throwing a bunch of good ingredients in a pot at the same time and expect it to come out magically delicious.
Also, does Yuen Woo-Ping even speak English or the actors left to coordinate the dialogues themselves?
This movie left a lot of production questions to think about. That's unfortunate, because I would have rather left the movie thinking the movie plot and what characters I favored or hated most. This movie had neither.
3-stars for the awesome kungfu.