Sunday, January 30, 2011

Shaolin 新少林寺

Released Year: 2011
Directed by 陳木勝 Benny Chan

Casted by:
劉德華 Andy Lau as 侯傑 Jie
謝霆鋒 Nicholas Tse as 曹蛮 Man
成龍 Jackie Chan as 悟道 Dao
范冰冰 Fan BingBing as 颜夕 Yan
吳京 Wu Jing as 净能 Neng
释延能 Shi Yan Neng as 净空 Kong
Story:
Jie is a violence lieutenant who never let his rival survive and he is the head of Man, Man was trained to be as cool as Jie in war. Jie and Yan has a daughter, but their daughter was killed during a fight between Jie and his brotherhood. Jie managed to send his daughter to Shaolin temple but failed to save her life, Yan was frustrated and left Jie.

In Shaolin, Jie noted the truth of a living from Dao and decided to become a monk and stay in Shaolin temple. Though Jie had has a fight with Neng and other monks before, but everything become well when they realise that Jie has changed into a better person.

In the meanwhile, Man has took over Jie's place in the arm force and become more cruel than Jie. Man came to Shaolin temple and decided to catch Jie. Man also caught Yan and torture her in front of Jie. But while they are fighting each other, the caucasian came and attack the temple with bomb. The shaolin monks protect the citizen while Dao was told to lead them away. Man and Jie fight and in the end Jie died because he wanted to save Man.

Man realise the horror of war and decided to stop in the end.
L² Scored: 8.5/10

L² Comment:
A remake of the same shaolin film in 1982, this is definitely much more better. The bombing part and all others things are so real, even Andy, Nicholas and Jackie make a good show in this movie, bravo :)

Love Nicholas' style and the way he looks in the movie, so cool and so dangerous~ nice

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