Film
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
- Director
- Destin Daniel Cretton
- Certificate
- 12A
- Running Time
- 132 mins
Following the events of Avengers: Endgame (oh, do keep up), trained assassin Shang-Chi (former stuntman Simu Liu making his acting debut) finds himself drawn back into the clandestine Ten Rings organisation that he thought he’d left behind after reinventing himself as a chap named Shaun who lives in San Francisco. Awkwafina plays his chum, who’s unaware of his past. Much chopsocky ensues.
If you’re counting, this is both the 25th marvel Cinematic Universe film and the second entry in Phase Four of said Universe. Reviews have been mostly positive , with Variety describing it as “a flashy, Asian-led visual effects extravaganza that gives the second-tier [Shang-Chi] the same over-the-top treatment that big-timers like Hulk and Thor typically get. The result broadens [Marvel Studios’] spectrum of representation once again, offering audiences of Asian descent the kind of empowerment for which Black Panther paved the way a few years back.” Only a hardened cynic would observe that this commendable drive towards inclusion might conceivably be driven in part by the fact that last year China overtook North America in terms of box office revenue.
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