#I mojin the lost legend movie#

As for the other female lead, Shu Qi, currently captivating folks in Hou Hsiao-HsienвЂ™s вЂњThe Assassin,вЂќ shows more slyness and more volcanic temper.

Ding Sitian, lost for a good portion of the film, comes on hard-nosed, aloof. Chen KunвЂ™s dashing, bright-eyed optimism and command play off of this. Huang Bo plays the daffy, slightly-less good-looking fellow, awkward in romance, and prone to fits of foul temper, but always good for a laugh. The interactions break down to basics, for both action and comedy. There, a big boss who works for a mysterious bigger boss, pulls them in for one last job. They decamp, perhaps not entirely voluntarily, to New York City. They find themselves in over their heads and they lose Ding. Unscramble the plotвЂ™s progress and it seems standard. But it bends the rules of the universe, and linear development, to get there.

#I mojin the lost legend movie#

An action movie must build to a big finish, and this one does. They gain and lose and then gain again, the third member of their devastating trio, Ding Sitian (played by Angelababy, a superstar sometimes described as вЂњthe Kim Kardashian of China,вЂќ although frankly given that she can act, sheвЂ™s already way out in front of any Kardashian). Their appearances, attitudes, ideologies, and philosophies change violently. Over the filmвЂ™s two hours, the two survivors of that fateful day in the tomb, Hu Bayi, played by Chen Kun, and Wang Kaixuan (Huang Bo), travel backward and forward in time. That is, one of the tomb robbers wakes up. In the far-reaching tradition of Hong Kong cinema, time and gravity seem to work at the whim of the screenwriter (Tianxi Bachang, in this case), and the three leads scrabble about, frozen in mid-air, dodging coffins and other heavy objects, flying splinters, and bright blinding lights. Wu ErshanвЂ™s вЂњMojin: The Lost LegendвЂќ opens with a frantic action sequence inside an ancient tomb.