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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)
The dull prologue bored me so much that I could barely concentrate on a word of the exposition-heavy nonsense. Then we meet the titular Shang-Chi and his best mate Katy singing drunken karaoke and I started laughing along with them, then there is a sudden very well choreographed Jackie Chan-esque bus fight. So the movie had me 100% back on board but unfortunately it continues to switch between following this likeable duo and boring exposition scenes to explain the needlessly complicated plot and further flashbacks to more of the prologue. I almost suspect if it was edited together chronologically, the prologue would be half the runtime, which would have been better spent on developing the secondary characters. Therefore my enthusiasm was slowly worn down by the time we got to the inevitable CGI-fest final battle which I was supposed to care about. This is another Marvel movie like Thor 2 that has a great mid-credits scene that should probably have been the ending and at least 10-minutes of deleted character scenes that could have been more useful than 10-minutes of energy blasts exploding all over the screen. Whoever did the brilliant fight choreography needs to be given carte blanche on the sequel (I think the best bits were Hong Kong pro Andy Cheng?), not the FX team because there was too much of that and it was weak.
The dull prologue bored me so much that I could barely concentrate on a word of the exposition-heavy nonsense. Then we meet the titular Shang-Chi and his best mate Katy singing drunken karaoke and I started laughing along with them, then there is a sudden very well choreographed Jackie Chan-esque bus fight. So the movie had me 100% back on board but unfortunately it continues to switch between following this likeable duo and boring exposition scenes to explain the needlessly complicated plot and further flashbacks to more of the prologue. I almost suspect if it was edited together chronologically, the prologue would be half the runtime, which would have been better spent on developing the secondary characters. Therefore my enthusiasm was slowly worn down by the time we got to the inevitable CGI-fest final battle which I was supposed to care about. This is another Marvel movie like Thor 2 that has a great mid-credits scene that should probably have been the ending and at least 10-minutes of deleted character scenes that could have been more useful than 10-minutes of energy blasts exploding all over the screen. Whoever did the brilliant fight choreography needs to be given carte blanche on the sequel (I think the best bits were Hong Kong pro Andy Cheng?), not the FX team because there was too much of that and it was weak.