Thursday, October 3, 2013

MAN OF TAI CHI (2013)












Directed By: Keanu Reeves 
Written By: Michael G. Cooney 
Cinematography By: Elliot Davis 
Editor: Derek Hui 

Cast: Keanu Reeves, Tiger Hu Chen, Karen Mok, Simon Yam, Quing Ye, Sam Lee

A young martial artist's unparalleled Tai Chi skills land him in a highly lucrative underworld fight club.

As long as you don't expect much, from Keanu Reeves new film.

You will allow yourself to be pleasantly surprised or will note how basic the film is, if you ate a fan of action and fighting this is the film for you. As the fight scenes ate the best part of the film. Truthfully the only noteworthy thing in the film. The rest of the film pretty much sticks to the rules

The basis of this film is Keanu Reeves striking up a friendship with Tiger Hu Chen who worked on the matrix films with him and coming up with a project for him.

While Tiger Hu Chen is no great screen icon (Seemingly playing a version of himself) he doesn't embarrass himself or the film. He is impressive in the action scenes and is magnetic in them other than those scenes he is ok luckily the film keeps him busy. While also being very slim and a bit odd looking.

The plot of the film is familiar and transparent the only People shocked by its actions are the lead characters

Keanu playing the over the top villain to the hilt and even though over the top fits him better then the heroic roles he usually plays, just as his name Is different Keanu reeves has always been that way to me as an actor it's always been really hard to place where his strengths lie as he isn't a great thespian, but at times you can see he is at least trying. I believe it is more a fault of his fiction and speech patterns that Hurt him being believable in certain roles

Keanu Reeves seems to be a film enthusiast and while taking mostly studio films shows an openness to more challenging roles. He is an actor who just rarely seems comfortable in a role. When It’s more of a paycheck gig you can tell with him. While he has found play of roles to help define screen personae he always tries to circumvent it. Disappearing for awhile then coming back slightly.

The role of director seem to fit him more comfortably. Here he seems more relaxed and like he is having fun. Sort of like his role in the Film the watcher which was more forced and contractually obligated, but at least there he seemed campy on purpose and more free ether to show his dissatisfaction or the fact he really didn't care either way it was one of the only noteworthy things about that film. What works against it is that at times the film seeks to be deeper and more meaningful then it is which makes it feel even more ridiculous at times.

I believe the film could have been more enjoyable if the script or story was just a bit better

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 Grade: C

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