Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen (Blu-ray + DVD)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 46 minutes
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 14, 2011
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: Well Go USA
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Shu Qi, Kohata Ryuichi, Akira, Donnie Yen, Yasuaki Kurata, Anthony Wong, Huo Si Yan, Bo Huang, Shawn Yue & Zhou Yang | |
Directed by | Andrew Lau | |
Screenwriting by | Gordon Chan, Frankie Tam, Lui Koon Nam & Cheung Chi-Sing | |
Composition by | Kwong Wing Chan | |
Director of Photography: | Andrew Lau & Ng Man Ching |
Entertainment Reviews:
Using not one but two world wars as backdrops, Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen is an exhilarating kung fu romp.
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NPR
There's too much lustrous-hued loitering and too few martial-arts set pieces. This isn't another disposable B movie, though.
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New York Magazine/Vulture
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Adroit editing, camerawork and staging keep in step with Yen's formidable martial arts mastery, showcasing a talent on par with Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Jet Li.
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Cinema Writer
Rating: 2/5 --
Although "Legend of the Fist" is slick, stylish and assured, it is also bloated and hollow, and seemingly without much sense of what actually is working.
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Los Angeles Times
Rating: B+ --
A heady blend of spy thriller, period piece political drama and martial arts action flick that reaffirms star Donnie Yen's quiet, universal charisma.
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Shockya.com
Rating: 47/100 --
The movie only really comes to life when there's fighting on screen, which is unfortunate, if not entirely unexpected.
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MovieMartyr.com
... a colorful and largely incoherent mess, less a movie than a collection of cannibalized ideas stitched together into something resembling a plot.
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Product Description:
A celebrated Chinese hero returns to the mainland seven years after the fight that made him a myth, and assumes the identity of a masked crusader in order to expose the clandestine alliance between the Japanese and the mafia, and to procure a vital assassination list in this epic action thriller from INFERNAL AFFAIRS director Andy Lau. At the height of the Warlord Era, China is being torn apart though internal conflict, allowing Japanese forces to gain a foothold in Northern Shanghai. His mentor murdered by Japanese troops, Chinese avenger Chen Zhen (Donnie Yen) single-handedly defeats an entire dojo full of enemy combatants amidst a blinding shower of bullets. Though his body is never recovered, Chen Zhen is presumed to have perished in the fight. Flash forward seven years, when high-ranking Japanese officials rub elbows with ruthless gangsters in the lavish Casablanca nightclub as the impoverished masses starve in the streets. Suddenly, into the Shanghai social scene steps a wealthy entrepreneur named "Ku" (also Yen), whose obvious affluence quickly gains him an audience with the most powerful mob boss in town. Little do the local criminal masterminds realize it's all an elaborate ruse; by day Ku uses his relationship with the formidable gangster to gather intelligence on the collusion between the Chinese underworld and the Japanese military, and by night he dons a mask in order to fight the powers attempting to oppress his people. But the closer Ku grows to scorching beauty Kiki (Shu Qi), the more he risks blowing his cover. Later, when Ku discovers evidence of a top-secret Japanese hit list that threatens to shift the balance of power in their favor, he prepares to risk his life in a fight that could alter the future of an entire nation, and give the downtrodden masses hope for a better future.