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Rating: 4 out of 5 Release Date: 2008 Director: Wilson Yip Netflix Link IMDb Link |
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Starring Donnie Yen with Sammo Hung choreographing; what’s not to love? This is a supposedly true biopic set before and during the Japanese occupation of China during WW2. The real message of the movie is that the Chinese are far superior martial artists and people in general than the Japanese. According to this film, the Japanese are evil, they will shoot you in the head for any reason and they suck at kung fu. But, all is well in the end since “the Japanese unconditionally surrendered to China and China won” (that’s actually in the closing text scroll). I always thought that the Japanese unconditionally surrendered to the allied forces because the US dropped two massive bombs on them, but what do I know. It was actually China that did all the heavy lifting. The main problem I have with Chinese cinema, other than their treatment of horses, is they sometimes try to pass things off as fact, when the facts they present are only half truths at best. 4 stars anyway for some killer martial arts.
