Dubbing is so terrible that I watched it in Chinese. Special effects are okay: some environments appear to be gorgeous but sometimes it is just too much as the light and buildings become ugly. Overall bare-hands fights are marvelous and really pleasant to see. I must however underline the services of Donnie Yen: an incredible fighter and choregrapher but poor actor. And obviously the end has to be that amazing climax with the hurt but living and stiking hero beating his opponent in an awesome martial arts scene. Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen is a 2010 Chinese martial arts action movie directed by Andrew Lau (the Infernal Affairs series) starring Donnie. Out of nowehere you see dozens of throats cut and tortured men. To the middle everything looks like a silent war between Chinese and Japanese but it all suddenly becomes an open violent and bloody war. Scenario is a bit confusing and even more since the movie decides to totally change its temper without any decent reason. I guess it was just to have the opportunity to show a Chinese man doing parkour in the middle of a battlefield while killing every one around him without getting hurt. It is really weird because the rest of the movie sticks much more with reality. What the hell are they doing here? After some doing some research I found the information that Chinese people were employed in that time in France to do the dirty work (construction, burriyng the dead) and not as soldiers. The film begins with a Chinese regiment operating on the French front in WWI. This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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