Read More Todd McCarthy: The 10 Best Films of 2015 And the comedy is broad indeed when one of the tomb raiders is forced to carry a less than svelte colleague, he asks him, “Do you ever poop?” Once the action gets going, it really gets going, with the Mojin encountering a vast array of deadly obstacles and demonic creatures that give the proceedings the feel of a comically tinged video game.
The excursion was a disaster for reasons that won’t be revealed here, but which add a surprising political context to the otherwise pulpy material. Upon finding the burial ground, the intrepid tomb raiders realize that it’s familiar a flashback reveals that twenty years earlier they had entered it when they were all members of the Communist Youth League. Read More Oscars: 12 Films’ Strategic Keys to Winning They eventually learn that what she really wants is to possess a famed artifact known as the Equinox Flower that allegedly has the power to raise the dead. They’re lured back to their original vocation by a mysterious, businesswoman/cult leader (Liu Xiaoquing) who wants them to find the ancient tomb of a Mongolian princess. Heck, there are even zombies, because really, what’s a lavish, mindless fantasy epic without them?Īrriving just a few months after an earlier Chinese film ( Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe) based on the same source material, the film is set in the late 1980s with its trio of tomb raiders, or Mojin - Hu Bayi (Chen Kun), Wang Kaixuan (Huang Bo) and Shirley Yang (Shu Qi, recently seen in Hsiao-Hsien Hou’s The Assassin) -retired and, for some reason, living in Manhattan. Receiving a day-and-date release in the United States, Mojin: The Lost Legend should also appeal to American audiences raised on a diet of Indiana Jones and Lara Croft.
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Demonstrating that China can produce a lavish, mindless fantasy epic as effectively as Hollywood, Wuershan’s ( Painted Skin: The Resurrection) adaptation of a novel from a best-selling series should prove a blockbuster in its native country.
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