Shaolin Movie Review
Sunday, October 2nd, 2011Title: Shaolin Directors: Benny Chan and Cory Yuen Starring: Andy Lau, Nicholas Tse, Jackie Tse, Wu Jing, Li Bing Bing Another nationalist, feuding-warlord Chinese martial arts import, historic epic “Shaolin” delivers moderately on the expectations its core demographic might likely have, but otherwise does little else to distinguish itself for a broader audience. Ambitiously staged set pieces fall victim to portentous technique, creating an ultimately irreconcilable chasm between how much one wants to like this movie and how much they actually do. A kind of spiritual rebooting of Jet Li’s 1982 classic “The Shaolin Temple,” the film unfolds in the early days of the Chinese republic, as various warlords look to…














