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Jiu Long cheng zhai · Wei cheng (2024)
Ruined by countless silly fight scenes
I went to the Walled City in 1990 and this film captured the look and atmosphere very well. The story was interesting; some of the characters were nicely developed, and there was no love interest to distract from the plot; in fact, there were very few female characters.
Unfortunately, a significant part of the film was spent in increasingly silly fight scenes but I have never been a fan of kung fu movies. Seeing people leaping 10 metres in the air, performing impossible feats, characters repeatedly coming back from the near dead and then the villain at the end having special powers, making him virtually impossible to destroy, became laughable, tedious and completely ruined the film for me. I accept that sort of thing may well appeal to others.