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‘Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’ review: Latest Marvel movie is heavy on martial arts
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It sounds like a specimen from the wuxia genre, about martial arts warriors in ancient China, rather than the latest addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe – and plays out like one too. Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings includes throwbacks to other films in the ever-expanding superhero franchise as well as a prominent cameo by a Marvel character. But at heart, the newest MCU production is a classic battle of fisticuffs and wills.
Hong Kong acting legend Tony Leung and Malaysian action star Michelle Yeoh – both of whom have appeared in martial arts films – join Asian talent from Hollywood for an adventure that involves time travel, parallel realms of power and magic, dragons and a relatable debate about the weight of expectation placed by father on son.
Short Term 12 director Destin Daniel Cretton, one of the American indie talents to be hoovered up by Marvel Studios, largely sticks to the template. Cretton, who has written the 132-minute film movie along with Dave Callaham, Andrew Lanham, moves smoothly between time periods and continents before tackling a typically Asian question: does daddy always know best?
Shang-Chi (Simu Liu) has been in hiding for ten years from his authoritarian father Wenwu (Tony Leung). The leader of…