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Man of Tai Chi (2013)

November. 01,2013
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In Beijing, a young martial artist's skill places him in position to experience opportunities and sacrifices.

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Evengyny
2013/11/01

Thanks for the memories!

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JinRoz
2013/11/02

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

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Baseshment
2013/11/03

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

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Kaelan Mccaffrey
2013/11/04

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

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Internet-Police
2013/11/05

OK, the fight scenes were pretty cool for the most part but everything else about this was terrible. Reeves acting (if you want to call it that) is the worst.

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CinemaClown
2013/11/06

Keanu Reeves' directional debut is an expertly choreographed martial arts feature that will delight the genre fans with its old-school, action-packed premise but it also features a highly predictable plot, clichéd characters & near absence of genuine, believable emotions that ultimately prevents it from leaving a memorable imprint.Man of Tai Chi tells the story of a young martial artist who is gifted in Tai Chi skills but is impatient & rebellious when it comes to the philosophical aspects of his style. Things are set in motion when he is invited to join a highly lucrative underworld fight club for easy money and eventually finds out the sinister intent behind its existence.Directed by Keanu Reeves, the film marks his first stint behind the camera and he does a neat job at it, for his debut effort in the director's chair is simple, grounded, entertaining & well aware of its limitations. The action choreography is excellent & benefits a lot from its kinetic camera-work while all its events unfold at a brisk pace.The story is lazily scripted, for it could've delved deeper into the world of illegal fighting operations & its equally perverse audience but refuses to look beneath the surface. The fight scenes are good yet they fail to stimulate on an emotional level. Performances are mediocre, at times laughable and the generic background score doesn't help either.On an overall scale, Man of Tai Chi begins Keanu Reeves' directional career on a quiet note and is best enjoyed when expectations are thrown out the window. Reeves in a negative role is quite fun to watch despite his hollow, cringeworthy expressions while the movie as a whole chooses to stay within its confines by never aiming for a shot at greatness. In short, there is nothing special about it.

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sH343
2013/11/07

This movie both fails western and eastern quality standards. The plot just makes no sense. It looks like a bulwark of redundant pictures, which were fabricated to deliver a message we have already got from a lot of other genre defining movies (e.g. Bruce Lees movies). Sry, Keanu you just can't mess with those. Keanu Reeves acting seems bloodless. The police is boring. The main actor is good, but his character is just as stupid as the plot. This kind of trash should not get multimillion dollar funding, it should be done with a couple of thousand dollars. What a waste. There were a lot of Kungfu movies in the 70ies that lived from the passion and the new ideas of the crew and the actors. This one is scripted from beginning to end and there is just no passion of spontaneity in there.

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Leofwine_draca
2013/11/08

MAN OF TAI CHI marks a collaboration between Hollywood and China as the studios join forces to make a traditional tournament-based martial arts flick. The film is directed by and stars Keanu Reeves as an evil millionaire who mounts violent fight tournaments and broadcasts them to internet viewers in a bid for fame and fortune.What MAN OF TAI CHI has going for it are the plentiful fight sequences, all of them expertly choreographed by Yuen-Woo Ping. It's hard to go wrong with tournament-style films - they're a staple of B-movies, after all - and the almost constant stream of hard-hitting fights makes this great fun to sit through.There's little more to it than the action, however, seeing as the film is deeply flawed. Reeves's debut direction is applaudable, but they could have picked a better person than a composer to write the trite, predictable storyline. Elsewhere, Tiger Hu Chen proves to be a charisma-free leading man, despite his impressive tai chi skills, while Karen Mok overacts for all her worth. Simon Yam is barely in it despite being prominently billed. Worst of all, Iko Uwais makes a cameo appearance and doesn't even get to fight - the dumbest decision in the entire movie. My recommendation is to watch it for the fights but don't go in expecting much else, because you won't get it.

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