Blades of the Guardians

A fun oddysey throught Chinese desserts with a great cast that is very smaltzy and makes it all feel giant in emotion.

Its cool to see yuen woo-ping, in his 80s to make such a sprawling epic where morality is questionable all around but where there are clear heroes, goals and villains.
It harkens back to the classic action films China used to make and what its trying to get back to and for a glimpse, woo-ping gets it because he comes from that era. His roots in Hong Kong action films like he did with Jackie chan allows him now to build on that and create some great fight choreography. These characters are all played with 100% seriousness and sentimentality which creates an emotional connection for me because everyone in this knows what type of film it is but never downplays what it is.

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