all movies have flaws, but i really liked this movie and its very enjoyable. there is a lot more chinese dialogue that i thought there would be, which is amazing to me as a big budget hollywood film, but some of the translations were a bit off.
simu liu is very talented and likeable, the legendary hong kong superstar tony leung plays wen wu (aka the mandrin but he said it was made up by others), and meng'er zhang is amazing, even though xia ling was her first movie role. the action is one of the best things about this movie, especially the hand to hand combat.
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wen wu has got be one of the greatest marvel villians of all time, he's one of my favourites, like killmonger. tony leung is a legendary hong kong actor. katy, trevour and morris are pretty funny, i feel, and i appreciate that the writers dont really interupt emotional, more serious moments with jokes. i really hope to see trevour and morris again in future movies.
one minor thing that i wished was done is to name the mythical creatures of ta lo, i wished that the characters in the movie actually said their real names, because a lot of people on the internet were calling morris a "chicken pig" when he is a hun dun or di jiang. and people were calling the animals pokemon, when they are part of asian and chinese mythology, like the huli jing. thats kinda out of marvel's control, i know, but i feel like it would be a nice thing to do
the representation is great and i love that marvel has a chinese superhero now, but idk if there is anything not great i missed because some people still feel asians are being sterotyped, like ta lo being a old fashioned chinese village that could be westeners thinking asians are "stuck in the past" or "old fashioned". not to be a killjoy, but hopefully that was not how the people behind the movie felt about asia, maybe it was a creative choice idk??
also the overlap of asian actors in this movie and crazy rich asians probably means more representation is needed, but this is a good step forward, i feel. the plot kinda speeds up at the end, some things dont really make sense, like how trevour is the only one that can talk to morris, is that a thing di jiangs can do in mythology???
but overall the movie is great, the soundtrack is spectacular, the fights are amazing and i had fun watching it. 8/10 rings