Tuesday 7 February 2012

Fearless (2006)

Director: Ronny Yu
Starring: Jet Li, Shidô Nakamura, Betty Sun
Certificate: 15
Genre: Kung Fu, Action
Awards: None

Fearless is the biography of Huo Yuanjia (Li), a martial arts expert who starts off as an arrogant and unlikable man who . After his family is killed, he spends some years in a small village learning of patience and other skills. When he returns, he finds that his town is now occupied by Japan. He then enters a competition against American and japanese to prove that the Chinese are more than just an oppressed civilisation.

Fearless has a lot in common with Ip Man, and although I understand it was made after this film, Ip Man delivers it better. In Fearless, you don't actually like the character in the beginning and Ip Man develops the supporting characters a lot more. Altogether, it's quite good mind.

****Good

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