With
fight choreography from Corey Yuen and able support from Sammo Hung as a villainous gang boss, Rise Of The Legend is more than strong enough to launch a new series of Wong Fei Hung adventures.
But while the story is pretty generic and the acting is only marginally better than the movies that it's paying homage to, it features some incredible
fight choreography from fellow «Matrix» alumnus Yuen Woo - ping.
Not exact matches
Most of its delights come
from the visual components,
from the editing, to the cinematography, and, of course, the fantastic
choreography and execution of the
fight and chase sequences.
New director David Leitch brings some of his Atomic Blonde style and a splash of John Wick's
fight choreography, but can't keep the movie
from feeling unwieldy.
We're close to the action in this film, often shot
from low to the ground, more like a «Bourne» film than a superhero movie, and the focus is more on
fight choreography than editing.
Blu - ray Highlight: In addition to a fairly informative audio commentary by writer Seth Grahame - Smith, the disc also includes a collection of production featurettes (ranging
from a basic making - of documentary, to more specific departments like make - up effects and
fight choreography) that fans of the movie will definitely want to check out.
This story may sound familiar, but it wins because of Coogler, who uses constant tracking shots to follow our hero, superb
fight choreography, and a script which never lets our characters struggles escape
from their own internal strife.
They are: «Director James Wan», «Transforming Nick Hume», «The Cars», «Creating the Character Billy Darley», «James Wan:
From Horror to Action», «Making the Garage Sequence», «
Fight Choreography and Stunts», «Shooting the Chase», «Designing the Look», and «The Car Drop».
The production company, which was started by Deadpool 2 director David Leitch, is behind the amazing
fight choreography and stunts
from films like John Wick, John Wick 2, and the upcoming Charlize Theron led Atomic Blonde.
The actor also plays the villain in this
fight intensive thriller with some incredible
choreography coming
from Yuen Woo Ping (The Matrix, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon).
He was tasked with physically pulling off the feat in the ring, moving
from actor to actor as the intense
choreography (courtesy of
fight and stunt coordinator Clayton Barber) tells a story that builds to a breathtaking punctuation.
While it isn't a great performance by most traditional measures, it likely would have been an action star - making turn, as Lee not only has the athletic physical attributes to convincingly go through the motions of the
fight choreography, there is an innate sense of goodness and sensitivity in his demeanor that makes for a fine romantic hero, even though he looks like the inspiration of Heath Ledger's Joker
from The Dark Knight and he's got murder on his mind.
From fight choreography to bike stunts and costuming, here are the twenty most exciting facts about the event!
As if aware that all that stuff about Bolivian peasants pining for water might be connected, and queasily, to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (a daring cargo - jet escape is similarly cribbed
from that film), Quantum of Solace does its level best to strip entire set - pieces
from the Bourne series (a knife
fight, the close - quarters disarming of government agents, the roof - top flight), forgetting in the process to port over the coherence of Doug Liman or Paul Greengrass
choreography.
Evans also bring his experience
from the Marvel movies for action and
fight choreography.
The impact of the
fight choreography is a pleasant surprise, given that directors Anthony and Joe Russo (taking over
from Joe Johnston) have a background in comedy (Welcome To Collinwood, You, Me And Dupree, TV's Community).
In it you see how he and his team created their very popular
fighting game —
from animation, capturing actual
fighting choreography, music, sound effects and much more.