The plot is extremely weak and highly unoriginal. It goes a little like this
1.Father was killed by bad guy 2.Revenge attempt #1 = failure 3.Withdraw to the forest 4.Meet some imaginary kung-fu masters - now this is original - kung-fu masters in your head 5.Train for years. 6.Revenge attempt #2 = success.
The logic of this movie has been brutally murdered. I was so discontented when Yi (Su's wife) died in the most ridiculous way, she was buried alive in a wooden box for like 10 minutes max. When Su and little Feng were digging the box up, she was shown to be alive, though weak. The box wasn't buried that deep at all. When the box was finally dugg up (in less than 3 minutes), she just kinda fell into a coma and instead of performing CPR on his wife, Su sat there and cried which, ultimately, led to his wife's tragic death! !@#$%?
God of Wushu was inspired by Monkey King but his attire is laughable.
The end was really what killed the movie. It was just plain stupid. The cliché goes as follow: foreigners invaded the land, arenas were built, foreign fighters challenged and whooped China men'sasses like some bad jokes. This has been seen way too many time in martial art movies, on the top of my head are Fearless and Ip man (both are very good movies though). Foreign fighters are depicted as typical brainless giants with massive muscles. Beggar-former-master Su was forced to enter the ring because some white dude held little Feng captive and threatened his safety. He managed to beat the crap out of everyone of them...all at once but it was a struggled fight and Su was badly wounded.
OK think of it this way, Su trained rigorously in the esoteric, ancient Chinese wushu and evidently had reached a total new realm of mastery because he defeated his arch nemesis - Yuan. Yuan was the main antagonist. And note this: Yuan is freaking strong and viciously evil with all those mighty wuxia's feature - the deadly five venom fist, bullet proofed/armored skin, maneuver up-down the well with ease, flying/levitating all over the places, crazily strong, etc. And yes Su beat this fool but he barely can handle a bunch of meat bags who practice the conventional wrestling (the WWE kind) and standard martial arts of MMA and. They have zero kung-fu/wuxia's power or anything. They shouldn't even equate Su's warm-up routines but they almost got Su killed. I just don't follow.
The plot was just blah and bleh, the fighting scenes were nothing spectacular either. It contained useless and stupid dialogue (i love you, our family must stay together forever, we must save our son, etc.). This was a watch-once-never-touched-again kind of movie, heck how did i manage to finish the movie. Oh and the CGIs were abused too much. Not even good CGIs. They were so fake, unnecessary, and add absolutely no value to the movie as a whole.
I'm a fan of Yuen Woo-ping. I love Wuxia and Chinese martial art genre but this movie was very badly made. Sorry, Yuen Woo-ping could have done much much better! I'm thoroughly disappointed.
1.Father was killed by bad guy 2.Revenge attempt #1 = failure 3.Withdraw to the forest 4.Meet some imaginary kung-fu masters - now this is original - kung-fu masters in your head 5.Train for years. 6.Revenge attempt #2 = success.
The logic of this movie has been brutally murdered. I was so discontented when Yi (Su's wife) died in the most ridiculous way, she was buried alive in a wooden box for like 10 minutes max. When Su and little Feng were digging the box up, she was shown to be alive, though weak. The box wasn't buried that deep at all. When the box was finally dugg up (in less than 3 minutes), she just kinda fell into a coma and instead of performing CPR on his wife, Su sat there and cried which, ultimately, led to his wife's tragic death! !@#$%?
God of Wushu was inspired by Monkey King but his attire is laughable.
The end was really what killed the movie. It was just plain stupid. The cliché goes as follow: foreigners invaded the land, arenas were built, foreign fighters challenged and whooped China men'sasses like some bad jokes. This has been seen way too many time in martial art movies, on the top of my head are Fearless and Ip man (both are very good movies though). Foreign fighters are depicted as typical brainless giants with massive muscles. Beggar-former-master Su was forced to enter the ring because some white dude held little Feng captive and threatened his safety. He managed to beat the crap out of everyone of them...all at once but it was a struggled fight and Su was badly wounded.
OK think of it this way, Su trained rigorously in the esoteric, ancient Chinese wushu and evidently had reached a total new realm of mastery because he defeated his arch nemesis - Yuan. Yuan was the main antagonist. And note this: Yuan is freaking strong and viciously evil with all those mighty wuxia's feature - the deadly five venom fist, bullet proofed/armored skin, maneuver up-down the well with ease, flying/levitating all over the places, crazily strong, etc. And yes Su beat this fool but he barely can handle a bunch of meat bags who practice the conventional wrestling (the WWE kind) and standard martial arts of MMA and. They have zero kung-fu/wuxia's power or anything. They shouldn't even equate Su's warm-up routines but they almost got Su killed. I just don't follow.
The plot was just blah and bleh, the fighting scenes were nothing spectacular either. It contained useless and stupid dialogue (i love you, our family must stay together forever, we must save our son, etc.). This was a watch-once-never-touched-again kind of movie, heck how did i manage to finish the movie. Oh and the CGIs were abused too much. Not even good CGIs. They were so fake, unnecessary, and add absolutely no value to the movie as a whole.
I'm a fan of Yuen Woo-ping. I love Wuxia and Chinese martial art genre but this movie was very badly made. Sorry, Yuen Woo-ping could have done much much better! I'm thoroughly disappointed.