Hmmm. This movie is interesting for me. This includes Black Widow because I also saw that over the summer, but the new Marvel content I have been watching hasn't been as good as people say it is. I watched Wandavision and I didn't like it all besides the possibility of the other Quicksilver and the Mutants. I didn't watch Falcon, but I'll get around to it. I watched Black Widow over the summer, and I thought it was a decent movie, but it didn't feel like a Marvel movie. It felt like a movie that just had Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow on everything. Loki was also very similar. The multiverse stuff and Owen Wilson's character were the only things I cared about. Everything else just didn't feel like the good things. I think Shang Chi fell into this category, but as I'm writing this I think that it is actually better than the things I just listed. The movie still didn't feel like the other Marvel movies we got in Phase 1, but it was a very solid movie I think.
Shang Chi does have some pretty strong things going for it I think. The action was very good and I think that the score was also pretty good because I have always been a fan of the "Chinese" style of music and Shang Chi is based in China for most of the movie, so that works for me. Imagine the Kung Fu Panda score, but a little worse. I want to talk about the action because until the big bad boss fight at the end I thought all the hand to hand action and the fight scenes were very well done in the movie. When Shang fights his sister in the ring the camera and the choreography of the fight was very well done and I would say the same thing with the fight scene on the side of the building with all of the scaffolding. The camera moves from close up to far away shots and I generally don't feel lost, which is a good thing. The end fight with the lead ninja guy was probably my favorite fight. Second place goes to Shang and his dad in Ta Lo with the staff versus the Rings. Now onto the things I disliked about the movie. The first thing is the villain. For a majority of the movie the villain is Shang's dad because he wants to destroy Ta Lo because his wife died. Then when Shang and company makes it to Ta Lo we learn of the reason Shang's dad was trying to get to Ta Lo. This big bad is different from other Marvel villains because it isn't a person/god it is a massive monster, which I would say we haven't seen too much of besides the giant Chitauri in Avengers. With the combination of the two bad guys I think that both of them as threats are defeated too quickly in the third act. Actually I think a lot of the third act was a little rushed with the final conflict, but the pacing for the rest of the movie is pretty well done. Shang beats his dad and learns to combine his abilities from the Rings from his father as well as the martial arts technique from the Ta Lo. Shang's dad has released the big bad from its prison and he gets his soul taken from him and he dies. This then shifts the fight to the big villain which could destroy the world, which sounds like a pretty big threat, but the heroes defeat that threat pretty easily in my opinion and the world is saved. The big bad also has these little minions and their purpose is to steal souls from people and feed it to the big bad because it makes it stronger, and from what we see, a bunch of people die from getting their souls taken but we only see like two people's souls taken and I think that it makes their deaths seem insignificant. The last thing that I didn't like was Katy. She was annoying to me and wasn't the greatest choice for the comedic relief. The rest of the movie was actually pretty funny, but I found her to not fit in anywhere in the movie even though her character was all about not knowing where to fit in. I think that she literally did not fit in this movie at all. Well that's all I have to say right now. I'm sure there is some more positive things I could say about this movie, but they aren't in my head right now. Shang Chi gets a 6/10 from me.
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