Well, that's
all right. A large part of the multi-billion budget is said to have been spent on clever digital maneuvers that provide fabulous scenery and an impressive menagerie with mammoth dragons and childishly cute Pokemon animals, but we also have to endure an excessive number of choreographed fighting scenes where people bump into each other in a wild frenzy. even drop blood.
The hard Shang-Chi from my childhood serial album has thus, like most of the Marvel colleagues, been forced into something that had been snorted at when it went: Family film.
But okay,
if you have invested the entire money bin in creating an individual product, as many people as possible must be able to buy it.
Which also explains why only Chinese is spoken in the grant, ie the foreplay important to the film that will arouse the viewer's desire.
Of course, the start takes place in China, so it is reasonable that the mandarin flows, but until just a few years ago, the actors had been forced to speak English with a fake Chinese accent;
This is so as not to scare away the large American audience who are admittedly allergic to subtitles.
But that was then, the Chinese are now, as is well known, on the rise, both as co-producers and intended consumers, and then the Chinese are a must.
Or well, after a while, English takes over the soundtrack but not completely.
It is a good picture of the balancing act that the large multinational companies must constantly go through: appease China, but at the same time ensure that ordinary Westerners are on the train.
Here, the
kung-fu hero Shang-Chi
steps
out of the shadows in a film that to some extent takes place in a mythical landscape that the hero's mother originates from and the father now threatens to destroy.
Well, it's that bony dad who's in trouble again. The premises are whitewashed on many previous blockbusters where a thug is forced to shoulder his responsibility in a father uprising in Luke Skywalker vs Darth Vader school.
But here are still some good nuances to cling to.
This is partly due to the fact that the megalomaniacal father is played by Tony Leung (In the mood for love), the man with Asia's most plastic face who always radiates complex conflicting emotions, but also a photographic imagination and sometimes uplifting dry humor (the best is the comedian / the rapper Awkwafinas who acts sidekick here) who can almost compete with the action fatigue that strikes already after one of the more than two hours.
Anyone who manages to suffer
through even the long afterwords gets a bonus in the form of two extra scenes that promise / threaten that Shang Chi will soon be back.
Which was not entirely unexpected.
The superhero franchise is an eternity machine that learns to survive us all.