Wolf Warrior

[Drunk Monk]

Wow. What extraordinary ultravi. Wolf Warrior 2 just blew up in China, seizing the all time domestic box office record. It is action packed - full auto tank battle explosion action. Wu Jong delivers some major gratuitous ultravi. It's quick cut choreography, one cut, one action, but still satisfying in its complexity. There's a plot about rebels in Africa, and a plague, but that only serves to catch your breath. The rest is explosions and gunfire. Wu Jing can really move, giving his balletic gunplay an air of grace. There are themes of loyalty, racism, justice, revenge, but mostly patriotism. Gaping plot holes and absurd action (classic bad guys who can't shoot the good guys even though they are running about without cover) but who cares? Just blow up more stuff. Wu Jing vs Grillo finale fight is gritty bloody fun. I'm not sure what it says about the PRC now but I'm not going to think on that too hard for now.

The theater was fairly full and the predominantly Chinese audience applauded at the end. Cf and I were amused. It's very DOOM. I could hear y'all chuckling along cf and me at the senseless glorious ultravi.