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Back to the Past - Drunk Monk - 02-04-2026
Quote:(12-26-2025, 07:07 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: Back to the Past
This is opening on Friday across the Bay Area. I'm planning on going to the 7:05 showing at Mercado next Tuesday. Anyone care to join me? tg - I still owe you dinner from last year.
This was fun. It's based on a Hong Kong TV show from a quarter century ago. A time-traveler ends up as the Sifu of the First Emperor of Qin. The movie reunites the original cast. I'm told it was a lot of fan service and having never seen the show, I could sense how some of the scenes must have been so hard hitting if you were a fan. Part period film, part sci-fi, some drama and a lot of comedy, but not too much Kung Fu. There's a flying skateboard fight. The set pieces are amazing. And there's some rather large crowd scenes that don't look like CGI (but it's getting so hard to tell now). Overall entertaining, and it had an alternate ending after the main credits where the leads gathered for a meal and wished everyone Happy New Year (it's a traditional cliche deployed by many Lunar New Year films).
The best part was going with my siblings from Lam Kwoon. Keith and I have been Kung Fu fanboys and friends for ... yikes like half a century. Stephan and Wendy are dear friends too - they hadn't been to a movie theater in years and were both blown away by the reclining reserved seats and that a Chinese movie would almost fill the house on a Tuesday night. None of us had seen the show, but we all enjoyed it.
It's not a must-see film but it is very entertaining. Not D00M recommended. There are other CNY films to be seen.