Actors: Dong-Gun Jang, Kate Bosworth, Kate Bosworth, Danny Huston, Tony Cox
Rating: 8 out of 10, this is a movie that shouldn’t work but does because it doesn’t try to be something it is not. This is just great, ass kicking action laid on top of a paper thin, implausible plot with great set design. This is how you bring a graphic novel to the screen and make it shine. The lead actor is superb, while saying almost nothing. He combines with Rush to overcome the shortcomings of Bosworh who is again, almost unwatchable as the female lead. The impossible fight scenes are flawlessly choreographed. Huston is a little over the top as one of the villains but that’s what’s called for; again, this movie does not try to be anything it is not – just a lot of fun. There are small touches throughout that makes a kung fu master somehow running a Chinese laundry in a wild west ghost town with a second rate French circus run by a midget a very compelling movie. This is great popcorn fare.
MVP: Jang as Yuan, the very dangerous assassin
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