![]() That's to be expected at this budget and within this universe, but The result is hardly the best film in the larger MCU franchiseīut a very agreeable one, a picture with everything in order from the top-down. Many of its MCU brethren, overcomes whatever familiarity burdens might be in play. The danger is that the film would lack identity by essentially building up through a veryįamiliar string of narrative events and action elements, but because of strongly defined characters and excellent performances, the film, like so Surely soon to be in the center of a much larger stack). Shang-Chi doesn't bring anything new to the MCU table, at least in terms of its aesthetics it offers a suite of familiar special effects andĬore choreography styles that see it seamlessly mesh into the larger Marvel movie world atop which it stands (24 films below it, to be exact, and Three find themselves hurtling towards a desperate battle against Shang-Chi's own father with the fate of the world hanging in the balance. Shang-Chi, with Katy at his side, tracks down his sister Xu Xialing (Meng'er Zhang) and the (Tony Leung) and trained in the art of assassination. He reveals his true history, raised by his father Xu Wenwu ![]() Organization known as The Ten Rings, with a resplendent display of martial arts mastery. ![]() Shang-Chi, to Katy's surprise, dispatches the attackers, who are affiliated Pair are suddenly attacked by a brute of a man and several henchmen. San Francisco valets Shang-Chi (Simu Liu) and Katy (Awkwafina) are about to have their lives turned upside down. Vets who have seen every film multiple times or relative newcomers seeking an escape into a high grade movie experience. Necessarily "new" in the movie in terms of how it goes about its business, it at least builds a fully enjoyable film that should satisfy both hardcore MCU The film showsĬommand of the entertainment medium, offering a robust hybrid of intimate characterization and superbly developed action. Latest MCU entry (at least the latest to land on Blu-ray the MCU keeps a-chuggin' with Eternals already in theaters). The title character finds his origins in the 1973 debut comic and makes the transition to the big screen in 2021 as the Reviewed by Martin Liebman, November 17, 2021ĭisney's march towards making sure every Marvel character headlines a movie (and turns millions in profits) continues with Shang-Chi and the Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Blu-ray Review Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Blu-ray
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