It doesn't know what it wants to be. It tries to be a Martial arts movie. It tries to be a Fantasy/Adventure movie. It tries to be a Marvel Movie. It tries to beso many things EXCEPT the most important one: an actual Shang-Chi movie...
Shang-Chi has no powers... he's basically Marvel's Bruce Lee with a bit of James Bond. Son of a nearly Immortal Crime Lord, Fu Manchu, now Zheng Zu, and trained as a super martial arts assassin, Shang-Chi is Marvel's #1 Martial Artists... without powers, aside some chi manipulation, because of his mastery of martial arts... not a gift bestowed by magic dragons or bracelets like Iron Fist and Shang-Chi in name only.
The main issue with the movie is that it feels like they had an Iron Fist script and changed it to Shang-Chi in order to avoid Twitter mob outrage. You know because only Asians can know Martial arts.
I won't go into detail on how they screwed over The Mandarin, his rings, and quitw honestly, everything. Despite taking a massive shit on Shang-Chi and Iron Man comics, the movie is quite fun. Incredibly enough awkwafina is not as annoying as she was in Ocean's 8.
Honestly it's not a movie that you should risk covid- 19 to watch, if you can wait a few days until it pops on Disney Plus then do so.
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