My Own Swordsman

Estreno: 05/05/2011

Año: 2011

Nacionalidad: Desconocida

Sinopsis

Already adapted into a 2006 online game, a 2007 stage prequel and a 2009 animated film, the phenomenally successful 80-episode martial-arts sitcom My Own Swordsman (2006) had a high mountain to climb for a feature-film version. The surprise is that ? with the original director and lead writer, plus virtually all the main cast, on board again ? the result isn't a lazy, TV-style ploughing of the same furrow. Characters have been developed and slightly changed during the four-year gap so that they are still recognisable but have a fresh feel and dynamics; direction by Shang Jing is big-screen cinema stuff, opening out the Acción to show the whole town rather than just the interior of the inn in which the CCTV series was set; and framing and editing are similarly cinematic. Even more notably, the movie has some of the liveliest and best-staged Acción-comedy seen so far in a Mainland movie without any offshore help: the finale in the booby-trapped inn is the equal of anything in a similar Hong Kong movie.

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