OVERALL: A lot of the film I enjoyed ironically, but there's some genuinely impressive battle scenes and, though few and far between, heartfelt moments that make this *barely* a recommendation. SFlix is a Free Movies streaming site with zero ads. Hua Mulan (Zhao Wei) has no brothers, but she doesnt want. The Rouran tribes are invading Imperial China, so every family in Wei receives a conscription order requiring one male from each household to serve in the army. The villain is by far the strength of the film who chews up each line with so much delicious villainy and revels in it. Mulan: Rise of a Warrior is a 2009 Chinese film starring Zhao Wei as legendary heroine Hua Mulan. I don't wanna spoil the ending, but the way the villain is exposed of is pretty badass. You can tell the filmmakers were much more intrigued by the battle scenes because those are pretty badass. The movie picks up when Mulan is elevated to general status which is an interesting move to differentiate from the well known Disney telling. Mulan is comically feminine looking and none of the soldiers bat an eye.
The movie's opening shot is of a random Russian model singing on a mountainside with no context until he appears later on in the film as a henchman. So many scenes where you're like "oh.that wasn't a transition to and from a scene that was to and from a shot".īut yeah, the first half is an confusing mess. Directed by Jingle MaProduced by Jingle Ma, Wang Tian-yun, Jeffrey Chan, Ni Ying, Li LiScreenplay by Zhang TingStarring: Zhao Wei, Yu Rongguang, Chen Kun, Hu. It's like the editor just discovered the Fade to White button on Adobe Premiere and just went fucking ham on it.And the edits are so quick too! I swear there is one time where the white from one edit barely leaves the screen and the white from the next edit appears mere seconds later.