This movie is so goddamn frustrating, sometimes it's great and then it just goes down the predictable hole and then it just gets worse and worse just wow.
The acting was meh for the most part, nothing crazy, gets the job done but WOW Tony Leung knocked it out of the park, i didn't know him before and as soon as i saw him i felt something different and sure enough i was right, he was the best part of the film without a doubt. GREAT villain, 10/10 probably the second best villain in the MCU right after Thanos, if not just as good. Then (minor spoilers ahead) the film decided to throw him out and go for cgi monsters. The CGI in this film is good when showing small cool looking magic effects but the fight scenes and stuff were so bad. I remember seeing this smoke near the end near Shang-Chi that was so bad it felt like it came out of a b grade indian film that used a free vfx pack. Disappointingly bad CGI. The final villain was disappointing, i just can not feel for a villain that can't even talk let alone have a good past. It's just a monster that wants to kill everyone, could've just watched Godzilla and had more fun. This film could've been special, but no it just makes itself much worse than it needs to. The protagonist sucks, i did not like him (or the villain was so good that i could care less about the protagonist). His sister was sort of cool but they could've done her better and actually made her cool, she's just the "female empowerment" character, a forced character with forced scenes and don't get me started on the comedic friend. She's horrible, ruined the film for me even more, her jokes are bad, her voice is annoying and she gets together with the hero in the end, wow what a surprise! If they made the film just about the father I'd have given it a 10 because it was that good, sometimes it feels like 2 different people wrote this, one wrote the father's part and the other wrote the main storyline. The humor is 5/10, hits sometimes and sometimes i cringed, just no. Ben Kingsley's parts were a joy to watch. Even as a comedic character here he commands the scene, he's just too good.
The soundtrack was also frustrating, the score itself was pretty damn good, it's clear that when given the tools that the composer is used to, they will make something great but WOW were the electronic themes bad, some fight scenes had edm scores and they were horrible. And the songs just WOW, they were HORRIBLE, they just don't hit the same, mixed poorly (not that strong sub basses) and just overall not as cool as Quentin Tarantino's or even Martin Scorsese's ones.
The fight scenes are also like the film, frustrating, CGI parts are horrible and some shots had such weird lighting that it was hard to focus because the light behind was like a neon light/from a board and had weird colors and like the shots just weren't good enough. The fighting that was done by the mother was pretty cool and the fighting with the masked guy was pretty cool too, the one which happened in the building, the choreography was nice.
The girlfriend becoming an archer was expected and it just destroyed me, it was so bad, she's supposed to be no good at life and then now she's a master archer? They trained for what, 2 days at best and Shang-Chi is a master at martial arts or something?
I'm just complaining about this film this much because the villain was just ruined by this film, he was just too good and this film did not do him justice. I hate this film but can't truly hate it because of the villain.
The acting was meh for the most part, nothing crazy, gets the job done but WOW Tony Leung knocked it out of the park, i didn't know him before and as soon as i saw him i felt something different and sure enough i was right, he was the best part of the film without a doubt. GREAT villain, 10/10 probably the second best villain in the MCU right after Thanos, if not just as good. Then (minor spoilers ahead) the film decided to throw him out and go for cgi monsters. The CGI in this film is good when showing small cool looking magic effects but the fight scenes and stuff were so bad. I remember seeing this smoke near the end near Shang-Chi that was so bad it felt like it came out of a b grade indian film that used a free vfx pack. Disappointingly bad CGI. The final villain was disappointing, i just can not feel for a villain that can't even talk let alone have a good past. It's just a monster that wants to kill everyone, could've just watched Godzilla and had more fun. This film could've been special, but no it just makes itself much worse than it needs to. The protagonist sucks, i did not like him (or the villain was so good that i could care less about the protagonist). His sister was sort of cool but they could've done her better and actually made her cool, she's just the "female empowerment" character, a forced character with forced scenes and don't get me started on the comedic friend. She's horrible, ruined the film for me even more, her jokes are bad, her voice is annoying and she gets together with the hero in the end, wow what a surprise! If they made the film just about the father I'd have given it a 10 because it was that good, sometimes it feels like 2 different people wrote this, one wrote the father's part and the other wrote the main storyline. The humor is 5/10, hits sometimes and sometimes i cringed, just no. Ben Kingsley's parts were a joy to watch. Even as a comedic character here he commands the scene, he's just too good.
The soundtrack was also frustrating, the score itself was pretty damn good, it's clear that when given the tools that the composer is used to, they will make something great but WOW were the electronic themes bad, some fight scenes had edm scores and they were horrible. And the songs just WOW, they were HORRIBLE, they just don't hit the same, mixed poorly (not that strong sub basses) and just overall not as cool as Quentin Tarantino's or even Martin Scorsese's ones.
The fight scenes are also like the film, frustrating, CGI parts are horrible and some shots had such weird lighting that it was hard to focus because the light behind was like a neon light/from a board and had weird colors and like the shots just weren't good enough. The fighting that was done by the mother was pretty cool and the fighting with the masked guy was pretty cool too, the one which happened in the building, the choreography was nice.
The girlfriend becoming an archer was expected and it just destroyed me, it was so bad, she's supposed to be no good at life and then now she's a master archer? They trained for what, 2 days at best and Shang-Chi is a master at martial arts or something?
I'm just complaining about this film this much because the villain was just ruined by this film, he was just too good and this film did not do him justice. I hate this film but can't truly hate it because of the villain.
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