Sentences with phrase «fu epic»

Even European and American distributors would spare no expense on promoting this Wong Kar Wai kung fu epic at this year's Berlin Film Festival film market.

Storywise, Taichi Zero is classic historical kung fu epic fare, all about the development of certain schools and a culture in transition.

The critically - acclaimed kung fu epic «The Grandmaster» is getting a makeover: its 3D version will open in Chinese theaters on October 23, director Wong Kar - Wai announced at a press conference in Beijing on Sunday.

The influence on those later films is obvious, as Wong and his longtime cinematographer Christopher Doyle apply the techniques of Chinese art movies to a kung fu epic.

Like Baby Driver, Ben Wheatley's gun - fu epic pushes favorite buttons in a properly twisted and extremely fun manner.

But user growth is slowing, and hype over turning historical novels and kung fu epics into hit movies has yet to deliver.

The game's combat seeks to replicate favorite kung - fu epics like Hero and Ip Man through a rock - paper - scissors based kung - fu system with an emphasis on the spectacular.

Not exact matches

Director Tsui Hark and fight director Sammo Hung provide some great wire - fu action sequences among the convoluted plot that is typical of these kinds of Chinese epic modern films.

2 (Grade: B): This kinder, gentler second half (not a sequel, the producers stress) of Quentin Tarantino's epic vengeance saga has its heroine (Uma Thurman) buried alive, training with a kung fu master (Gordon Liu), battling several villains (Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah) for re-possession of her samurai sword and trying to work out her relationship problems with Bill (David Carradine) in an anti-climactic series of rather static dialogue scenes.

In his biggest challenge since becoming the Dragon Warrior, Po must lead his fellow kung fu masters, The Furious Five, on a mission of epic proportions to defeat his most threatening rival yet.

Instead, production designer Raymond Zibach and art director Tang Heng, who spent years researching Chinese art and architecture (not to mention kung fu movies), have inserted vast, moody, misty landscapes, fanciful interiors and traditional Chinese colors (red and gold dominate) to give the movie an epic, expansive, ancient quality that's a real pleasure to inhabit.

In fact, despite the marketing, there isn't all that much kung fu at all, which is not only strange given the stars and setting, but the fact that it had been employed so much in anachronistic fashion in The Mummy Returns would have led us to believe that this would be an explosive martial arts epic with a sky's - the - limit budget for special effects.

Oh, and have an epic kung - fu adventure avenging your father's death.