Tai Chi Master
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Billy Chow, Jacky Wu DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Cantonese (Original Language) Format: Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 128 minutes DVD Release Date: 2005-06-21 Audience Rating: Unrated Studio: Tai Seng |
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Movie Reviews of Tai Chi Master
Movie Review: abridged too far
Summary: 3 Stars
If you can get over the photography style of Chinese television, and assuming you enjoy kung fu flicks in the first place, you will likely dig this. The photography bugs the crap out of me but I think I'm in the minority. I can tolerate it. What really makes it work though is the choreography of director Yuen Woo Ping. Way less wires than he usually employs, which is a big plus in my book. If only he could merge this type of choreography with cameras that shoot movies made to be shown on the big screen instead of this videotaped look.
This is the condensed version of a TV series that has Wu Jing, in an "old-school" time frame, wanting to learn Tai Chi from a man named Chan, who cannot teach outside of his extended family. The women in his family cannot learn either. This is why Chan passes his daughter off as a dude. She helps Wu Jing learn by having him hide and watch her father practice and teach. Billy Chow then kidnaps Chan and a whole lotta fights ensue.
Wu Jing and Billy Chow are both very good. As is the older gentleman who played Chan. I have become quite a Wu Jing fan recently. Dragon Dynasty will release "Fatal Contact" later this month and I suggest you see it. Not much on plot, but the fights in that are some of the best I've seen. He's reason enough to see this one as well.
2003