09-10-2016, 05:44 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-10-2016, 05:58 PM by Drunk Monk.)
I'm posting this on this thread because both films are from this year and surreptitiously titled Bodyguard. There's some variation in some of the English titles (beloved/super) but these might shift. I must check if the Chinese titles are the same....later.
This is the 2nd film written & starring Yue Song (see http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFor...p?tid=2976). It costars Shi Yanneng who I knew from my early Shaolin years. Like Song's 1st film, there is a threadbare plot and a lot of action. Bodyguard protects hottie, and an evil gang wants her to get at her dad - actually there's a lot more intrigue because the adversaries are martial brothers (Song is iron legs ala Idle in Munchausen/Yanneng is iron fist ala Iron Fist et.al.) and there's more but it never interrupts the steady flow of fight scenes. The choreography is much stronger - good wire work, some major falls, some stunts and some preposterous fights. Yue takes on double hatchets, a giant, a gang of like 50+ baton & ratchet wielded, a cute double dagger villianess, a dude with a horse-cutting lance, and of course, Yanneng. It's superhero fightin' where people get kicked through concrete walls - quite tongue-in-cheek, with echoes of Shaolin Soccer silliness. Very entertaining as long as you park your brain outside. VERY DOOM.
This is the 2nd film written & starring Yue Song (see http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFor...p?tid=2976). It costars Shi Yanneng who I knew from my early Shaolin years. Like Song's 1st film, there is a threadbare plot and a lot of action. Bodyguard protects hottie, and an evil gang wants her to get at her dad - actually there's a lot more intrigue because the adversaries are martial brothers (Song is iron legs ala Idle in Munchausen/Yanneng is iron fist ala Iron Fist et.al.) and there's more but it never interrupts the steady flow of fight scenes. The choreography is much stronger - good wire work, some major falls, some stunts and some preposterous fights. Yue takes on double hatchets, a giant, a gang of like 50+ baton & ratchet wielded, a cute double dagger villianess, a dude with a horse-cutting lance, and of course, Yanneng. It's superhero fightin' where people get kicked through concrete walls - quite tongue-in-cheek, with echoes of Shaolin Soccer silliness. Very entertaining as long as you park your brain outside. VERY DOOM.
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