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"Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" is Marvel's first film to feature an Asian superhero.
The studio gets ten when it comes to identity politics, but much less about everything else.
The main character fur, the generic fight scenes and the effects are just puzzling
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Avner Shavit
Friday, 03 September 2021, 08:49 Updated: 11:02
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Trailer for the movie "Shangchi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" (Film Forum)
(Photo: Shai Librovsky)
Three-and-a-half years ago, Marvel hit the box office with "The Black Panther," its first film to feature an African-American superhero. Then came "Captain Marvel," in which they finally gave the baton to the woman. This past weekend it was the turn of another landmark: "Shang-chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings," in which an Asian superhero starred for the first time. Unfortunately, the film is more similar in its level to "Captain Marvel" than to "The Black Panther," and in any case less good than both, and not good at all.
Beneath the general and rather meaningless definition of "superhero movie" or "comic book movie", "shang chi and the legend of the ten rings" is revealed as a combination of three different genres: martial arts movie, fantasy movie and family drama. His protagonist lives in the United States as one man, works in the provision of parking services and enjoys spending time in karaoke clubs with his best friend, played by Aquapinia,Which as usual turns out to be the most successful element in the environment.
In addition to the karaoke cliché, "Shang-chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" replicates another corny scene - the moment when the innocent-looking protagonist is miraculously beaten by a gang of thugs on a bus, thus revealing that he has a dark past.
We only recently saw it in "Just One", and here it is happening here as well.
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Unclear platonic connection.
From "Shangchi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" (Photo: Film Forum)
The drama on the bus allows the whole world to discover that Shangchi is not just one, but the son of the leader of a group of warriors named the Ten Rings, so named by the mystical weapon in her possession. His attempt to escape from it and from his vocation lasted only ten years. Now, for reasons that will be revealed in time, he has no choice but to return to the East and confront his father, to prevent him from doing a crazy act that will lead to a terrible disaster.
Upon his return to his addiction, Shangchi undergoes a journey of self-discovery and identity formation, unites and reconciles with his sister and also becomes acquainted with a magical village, with a variety of creatures and dragons, more or less cute. It all sounds promising on paper, but not in practice.
In "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" there are many more than ten problems.
The effects in it are poor, almost puzzling relative to such a huge production;
Generic battle scenes, as well as dialogues, many of which sound like they were written by a Chinese fortune-teller machine;
The use of flashbacks is excessive and awkward;
And most of the game's displays are trivial to terrible, with the most problematic of all being the lead actor, Simo Liu is quite anonymous.
Liu turns out to be completely furry.
The camera also seems to feel it and runs away from it.
Another problem: the actor is 32, and also looks older for his age.
But the film itself is immature, and does not rise above the level of a hit to open the school year aimed primarily at teens, so it might have been more appropriate to choose a boy actor accordingly.
fur.
From "Shangchi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" (Photo: Film Forum)
To be fair, I will note that at the screening I attended, children, teenagers and young people sat behind me, and it sounds like they really enjoyed the experience.
I will also say that it nevertheless has three successful elements: the role of Aquapinia;
An amusing guest appearance by a character who appeared about a decade ago in one of Marvel's other hits, played by the same great actor on this film in several numbers;
And the excellent and unique soundtrack, for which the American-Asian collective 88rising is responsible, among other things.
But all this does not save the film, which begins in fast gear, but fades with time, and gallops into a lukewarm ending.
Once again, Marvel gets ten when it comes to identity politics, but much less about everything else.
What will?
From "Shangchi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" (Photo: Film Forum)
The film was directed by Dustin Daniel Carton, who was born in Hawaii to a mother from Japan.
He broke out at the beginning of the previous decade with "Short Term 12", which revealed, among other things, Barry Larson, who is Captain Marvel, with whom he later collaborated in the unseen "Glass Castle".
The director later came back to himself in the fascinating "Just Mercy," but here again he has a hard time finding himself.
The choice of it is a natural continuation of the Marvel tradition, which tends to entrust the directing baton of the huge, action-packed productions precisely to creators who previously specialized in modest indie dramas.
Their next film, "The Eternal," was directed by none other than Chloe Zhou, the Oscar winner for "Land of the Nomads," which is the opposite of everything they represent at Marvel.
"Eternal" will be released in two more months, and we can only hope that it will be ten times better than "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings".
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