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That opinion still hasn’t changed while Yuen’s choreography is fantastic it still feels very rigid. Corey Yuen, Wu Dang’s fight choreographer, to me is the third best fight choreographer in the business today, right behind Yuen Woo-ping and his apprentice Donnie Yen. Lastly, you can’t talk about a martial arts film without talking about the choreography. When the relationships start to develop, however, the chemistry between the characters become likeable as the characters in each of the two relationships are perfect complements to each other. Some of the romantic parts of the film feel forced and just thrown in to get the audience to care about the characters more. This also led to some forced moments in the film as well. If you know what the formula is, then you pretty much can guess what’s going to happen. All qualities involved in a Chinese – or any Asian – soap opera.Īll this leads to some predictable moments in the film. One of those deaths is even due to a disease. You will see romantic relationships formed and main characters die. That’s why the film is basically National Treasure and martial arts meets a fantasy, Chinese soap opera. Many of the moviegoers want to get as much entertainment as they can for the little money that they have. Many Chinese films tend to fit in as many genres into one film as they can since many of the Chinese moviegoers are relatively poor. Which is sad, because the climax could’ve been cool, but it became cheesy and groan-inducing.Īs much as I did enjoy the movie, not everyone will, as the movie at times can be a bit schizophrenic. The climax of the film is normally the most tense moment in the film, but the over-usage of CGI kills whatever suspense it has built up. When Wu Dang does use CGI though, it’s really bad, almost to the point of being comical. What makes Wu Dang enjoyable (bearable) is that 80% of the movie uses practical environments, rather than CGI.
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It can be very distracting when you’re trying to watch a fight scene but all you can see is the crappy CGI in the background. There’s too much CGI in recent Chinese kung fu films, most recently The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate. The main culprit for this is the huge use of poorly rendered CGI.
Recently, China’s been dropping the ball constantly with their martial arts films. Once Upon a Time in China, Iron Monkey, Fist of Legend, Drunken Master II, Enter the Dragon are all classics that I grew up watching as a kid.
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I’ve been a fan of martial arts films for a long time.
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