I'm not normally a movie news guy, but I watched Shang-Chi (And the Legend of the Ten Rings) on the always reliable advice of my good friend @TalkinLadyShiva and I want to share my thoughts below.
SPOILERS abound.
SPOILERS abound.
Overall? Great movie. I enjoyed it very much. Loved the tone, it's a movie that takes itself seriously with excellent casting and great performances.
The mythos was built up well and I think all the changes made from the comic version were valid. I was never a huge fan of some of the Master of Kung-Fu elements so this works for me. The great Tony Leung is a well-rounded, human antagonist (but not really a villain)
Special shout-outs to Meng'er Zhang, Awkwafina and Ben Kingsley for forming the best little crew in an MCU movie since Guardians of the Galaxy.
One thing I really liked was that the tone was relatively sombre throughout. There wasn't a lot of quipping and levity during the serious or threatening scenes, instead it played the family tragedy of the story straight. Fantastic.
Being a comics nerd, I was unreasonably excited to see Razorfist was in this! I managed to keep myself unspoiled for the most part and that fight on the bus was great.
Couple of minor quibbles I had, I felt the ultimate battle was a little too much giant CGI stuff flying around which is a common MCU trope at this point, and some of the flashbacks felt a bit drawn out, but nothing that reduced my enjoyment.
So hey, let's see more of these. I'm hoping that despite the mid-credit scene we can still get to see more down-to-earth martial arts stuff with Shang-Chi in the future. And the Ten Rings thing whenever that happens.
I also noticed they had some nods to Iron Fist but I feel an MCU Iron Fist is redundant at this point because the MCU version of Shang-Chi pretty much has all of his distinctive traits already.
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