#WU JING TAI CHI BOXER MOVIE#

Of course, a lowly wushu performer is poor, and he eventually decides he neeeds the money. They ask him to fight underground for them, and they offer a lot of money.

Some guys walk into an opera performance, and somehow recognize skill in a performer.

The whole setup is pretty nonsensical as well. It has a terrible and nonsensical love story, which luckily, isn't the focus. The story has almost no introduction, no time to familiarize a little with the characters, and the actual revelations about the characters are sporratic and placed in seemingly random places. An actor like Donnie Yen has a different kind of appeal, but because Jet Li is getting old, and probably no longer doing action movies anymore, Wu Jing would make a superb replacement. Wu Jing is younger, more vibrant, and he even has more flare than Jet Li.

He looks wild, but clean at the same time. He has this strange brutalness that jet li embodies in his roles with a modern setting. I would say in general, he's very similar to jet li. Wu Jing really struts his stuff in this movie. There's no wirework and very little, if any, video speed up that is flamboyant in some HK movies. You may see the fighters just hop around a it to psych each other out, and you'll notice, the more brutal the fights get, the less visible these sportsman like elements become. The choreographers throw in some pretty believable elements in the competition fights. Wu Jing will throw several jumping multi-kicks, but because the general rhythm of the fights are captured well, it doesn't look too far fetched. It's an interesting combination of brutal and flashy. The action sequences are frequent, and well choreographed. With that in mind, you may have to forgive a little bit of the jumpy and clichéd story telling. The real reason anyone will see fatal contact is for the action. In any case try to ignore the story and focus on the action. But it does beg the question why talented people like Sammo Hung, Simon Yam and Wu Jing would be involved with his productions at all. Most of the time he is lucky that he is surrounded by competent people who more than once improve the film considerably. He basically copies and pastes stories and themes and combines them without adding something fresh or original and then thinks he is finished. Director Dennis Law is an example of a film maker who really shouldn't be in the business since he lacks vision and creativity. If you want more proof of his incompetence then go watch Fatal Move which was meant as a sequel to S.P.L. Who is to blame for that? Dennis Law, ladies and gentlemen. Instead we are confronted with some abstract fatalistic love story that does not make any sense. If they really wanted to make a interesting story they should have used 'The Captain' more, since he was a great character.

#WU JING TAI CHI BOXER MOVIE#

The martial arts in this movie is great and that alone is the reason to watch this movie. The man has some skill and he shows it whenever he can. When he does his thing, you are in for a treat. What the director seems to have forgotten that he doesn't need the drama, because he has Jacky Wu / Wu Jing (known from Tai Chi Boxer). I think the director wanted to add some drama to make this movie more interesting. Only the ending is a bit crude and brutal and come to think of it completely ridiculous. This is a martial arts movie with a story that for the most part isn't compelling.

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