Tai ji xia
Director:
Keanu ReevesGuión:
Michael G. CooneyCámara:
Elliot DavisMúsica:
Kwong-Wing ChanReparto:
Tiger Chen Hu, Keanu Reeves, Hai Yu, Julia Ye, Karen Mok, Simon Yam, Iko Uwais, Steve Yoo, Man-chun Wong, Kok-git Lam, Brahim Achabbakhe, Foo-keung Kong (más)Streaming (4)
Sinopsis(1)
El ambicioso y joven "Tigre", Chen Lin-Hu (Tiger Chen) trabaja de repartidor en la ajetreada ciudad de Pekín, pero cuando acaba la jornada laboral se convierte en una estrella de las artes marciales que ha ascendido por los diferentes niveles en representación del tradicional Tai Chi Ling Kong. El Tai Chi suele asociarse con movimientos tranquilos y comedidos. Tigre ha perfeccionado el antiguo arte y ha empezado a hacerse un nombre en el prestigioso campeonato de artes marciales Wulin Wang. En Hong Kong, la detective Suen Jing-Si (Karen Mok), que forma parte del OCTB (Unidad contra el crimen organizado), ha llegado a un callejón sin salida persiguiendo a Donaka Mark (Keanu Reeves). Donaka es un poderoso hombre de negocios residente en Hong Kong que organiza peleas clandestinas sin reglas y retransmitidas de forma privada a apostantes ricos. Donaka necesita a una nueva estrella e intenta atraer a Tigre a sus redes con dinero. Al principio, Tigre no se deja tentar, ya que está totalmente entregado a la pureza e integridad de su objetivo, pero cuando el templo donde practica se ve amenazado de destrucción por una inmobiliaria, decide probar suerte con la esperanza de poder salvar el legado de Tai Chi Ling Kong. Tigre no tarda en convertirse en la sensación de las peleas clandestinas, derrotando a sus oponentes con golpes letales. Pero poco a poco empieza a emerger su lado oscuro. La agresividad de Tigre durante el torneo Wulin Wang llama la atención de muchos y avergüenza a su viejo maestro (Yu Hai). Aparentemente incapaz de controlarse, Tigre acaba colaborando con la detective Jing-Si para pillar a Donaka organizando combates clandestinos. Pero arriesga su vida en cada pelea. ¿Podrá Tigre cumplir con su objetivo y dominar su lado más oscuro? (Universal Pictures España)
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Keanu Reeves played a variety of roles in his career. Good, evil and also neutral. He also directed this movie and I would say it was surprisingly good directing. Surprisingly, because it was his debut and when an actor is debuting as a director, I never know what to expect. Keanu did good. The movie is about fighting, which is quite ironical as Tai-chi as such has not much in common with fighting. However, the fights in this movie are flawless. There is quite a lot of them and the tripod is holding the camera in a way that the tape won’t fall out of it that easily. In case Keanu wasn’t shooting it on a digital. That would hardly have any tape. But it could shake some memory card out of it. Nevertheless, the movie is about fights and that is the most fundamental it has to offer. Everything else is just a bunch of stuff we’ve already seen a thousand times.
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Keanu Reeves remembered his Matrix days and filmed a movie in China where he played a dark version of Neo without abilities that were quite as cool. Surprisingly, he can't fly and probably can't stop a bullet. The film is rather dark, but it's not that much of a horror. Blood spurting in water jets... probably not everyone's cup of tea. But bones are already breaking in the first scene, and there are quite a few action-packed sequences throughout. The screenplay doesn't offer any surprises; it's a classic Lee-style setup where a group of fighters finds themselves in life-and-death battles led by a madman who revels in death. White and black, good and bad. What more do you want? It’s stylized, though not overly so, and the fights aren't particularly innovative, but considering it's the directorial debut of a well-known actor, it's passable.
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