Su Qi-er (2010) Reviews

• ALMOST ! But not quite ! Yet still good !

  iam_themx2011-03-28

  This movie is a work of art in many ways. The Martial Arts displayed are really one of the best I have seen in a long time, yes it relies on flying and jumping everywhere, yet the fight scenes feels visceral enough not to feel to much like a dance. The actors are really awesome, and they managed to make one of the BEST antagonist of all times. Now let's get to the part that almost ruins it : The Pacing. The flow of the movie suffers greatly from a bad editing, and it is too bad because it had the potential to be a true masterpiece. This movie should have started backwards, beginning at the end, and having Su telling his story. Instead of that, the pacing can be hard to follow, and at the end I was left with a strange feeling of incompletion. Otherwise, the movie is still one of the best martial art movies of the past years, and if you are a Martial Arts fan do not miss it !

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• And Action!

  matreyia2010-12-21

  I am basing my 9 stars for two reasons. First, the choreography is top notch. Second the cinematography is top notch. Simply put, this a very beautiful movie to watch. As for the story and plot...it's an action movie with a fairly simple story. It was designed to entertain with action and composition so the story is not the main vehicle which it uses to engage the viewer. If you are looking for extremely beautiful images, super insane kinetic choreography and fight scenes, you have come to the right place. The fights are on par with and perhaps even surpass Crouching Tiger, or Hero. Woo Ping just keeps improving on his choreography. I don't know how he does it, but he does it in every new movie. This is a definite purchase on bluray for my collection.

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• A Bunch of Kick-Ass from Beginning to End

  chicagopoetry2010-05-08

  What's the point in analyzing this film and describing its plot as if it is so intricate? True Legend is basically every martial arts film ever made, from Five Deadly Venoms to Drunken Master, all rolled up into a big budget, blockbuster kick-ass fest of fists and feet from beginning to end. The plot is thin and video-gamish, but who cares, there is enough baby powder puffing from heads getting struck by body parts and bodies plunging into and shattering pots of wine and even some off the wall fighting style that looks like break-dancing to satisfy even the most hard-core kung fu fans. This is a truly weird one in that just when you think it is over, when the big-boss is finished off, the story keeps going on out of nowhere with sort of a Charles Bronson in Hard Times street battle competition. Like Ong Bak this is a pleasure of an action film simply because it doesn't try to be anything else except an action film. There's a little bit of everything thrown in here and it's quite a gas.

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• Absolutely Superb!

  travis-damant2010-05-24

  I found this to be one of the most entertaining films I've seen in a long time. I loved the whole concept of the film, it was booming with creativity and not to mention the fight sequences were bloody brilliant. The story line is actually very consuming once you become endeared by the characters, whom I might add are supremely crafted. I mean how can you not think the 'God of Wushu' is not cool. As a fan of the genre, I really rate this film up there with the best of them. It certainly deserves more attention, which I hope it gets. 10/10.

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• I could have came up with some thing much better over night

  nokturnal-rapport2010-05-09

  The plot is extremely weak and highly unoriginal. It goes a little like this 1.Father was killed by bad guy 2.Revenge attempt #1 = failure 3.Withdraw to the forest 4.Meet some imaginary kung-fu masters - now this is original - kung-fu masters in your head 5.Train for years. 6.Revenge attempt #2 = success. The logic of this movie has been brutally murdered. I was so discontented when Yi (Su's wife) died in the most ridiculous way, she was buried alive in a wooden box for like 10 minutes max. When Su and little Feng were digging the box up, she was shown to be alive, though weak. The box wasn't buried that deep at all. When the box was finally dugg up (in less than 3 minutes), she just kinda fell into a coma and instead of performing CPR on his wife, Su sat there and cried which, ultimately, led to his wife's tragic death! !@#$%? God of Wushu was inspired by Monkey King but his attire is laughable. The end was really what killed the movie. It was just plain stupid. The cliché goes as follow: foreigners invaded the land, arenas were built, foreign fighters challenged and whooped China men'sasses like some bad jokes. This has been seen way too many time in martial art movies, on the top of my head are Fearless and Ip man (both are very good movies though). Foreign fighters are depicted as typical brainless giants with massive muscles. Beggar-former-master Su was forced to enter the ring because some white dude held little Feng captive and threatened his safety. He managed to beat the crap out of everyone of them...all at once but it was a struggled fight and Su was badly wounded. OK think of it this way, Su trained rigorously in the esoteric, ancient Chinese wushu and evidently had reached a total new realm of mastery because he defeated his arch nemesis - Yuan. Yuan was the main antagonist. And note this: Yuan is freaking strong and viciously evil with all those mighty wuxia's feature - the deadly five venom fist, bullet proofed/armored skin, maneuver up-down the well with ease, flying/levitating all over the places, crazily strong, etc. And yes Su beat this fool but he barely can handle a bunch of meat bags who practice the conventional wrestling (the WWE kind) and standard martial arts of MMA and. They have zero kung-fu/wuxia's power or anything. They shouldn't even equate Su's warm-up routines but they almost got Su killed. I just don't follow. The plot was just blah and bleh, the fighting scenes were nothing spectacular either. It contained useless and stupid dialogue (i love you, our family must stay together forever, we must save our son, etc.). This was a watch-once-never-touched-again kind of movie, heck how did i manage to finish the movie. Oh and the CGIs were abused too much. Not even good CGIs. They were so fake, unnecessary, and add absolutely no value to the movie as a whole. I'm a fan of Yuen Woo-ping. I love Wuxia and Chinese martial art genre but this movie was very badly made. Sorry, Yuen Woo-ping could have done much much better! I'm thoroughly disappointed.

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