Thread by @qin_duke

Thought I would follow @dylanleviking example and do a review of a Chinese movie pretty much no one has heard of, though a much more recent film. Was browsing youku and noticed a film called 无名狂 with a completely unrelated English title of Wild Swords. Im a big fan of Wuxia so

despite the trepidation of it being a web movie, i.e. a low budget cheesy affair similar to made for TV movies in the West which are generally shit, I watched it since the trailer at least looked interesting. Despite the unknown actors, limited budget, I was actually pleasantly

surprised by it. I was expecting to be disappointed because so few true Wuxia films are made today, but it was a competent if predictably executed film. The plot is your basic bloody revenge yarn between warring martial arts sect and it doesn't really stray from far away from

it replete with your stock archetypes; the murderous tranny, the carefree wanderer, the masked avenger, even the hapless escort agency destined to be slaughtered. The film is actually quite similar to Xu Haofengs martial arts films like the sword identity or judge archer, but

without the dry/bizarre humor, this is especially the case in the action choreography where the actual fight is over in seconds as well as the general texture and pacing of the film.