Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

The latest film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe has arrived with “Shang Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings”. The film introduces audiences to Shang Chi (Simu Liu); an easygoing San Francisco resident who spends his time parking cars and hanging out with his friend Katy (Awkwafina) and her family. Life is steady if unspectacular until he is accosted on a city bus by a group looking to take a pendant his mother gave him. When Shang Chi shocks Katy and the occupants of the bus with his martial arts abilities; he attempts to find his sister Xialing (Meng’er Zhang); who runs an underground…

Rewatched for the Once Upon a Franchise podcast. Listen to the full episode here: open.spotify.com/episode/5ocYTfyec0F4eXA4C2qG9O?si=37b2cc91c3674863 Rating: A- SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS remains, on rewatch, one of the MCU's most confident and culturally rich origin stories — a film that pairs some of the best hand-to-hand action the franchise has ever produced with a genuinely tragic, three-dimensional villain in Tony Leung's Wenwu, all wrapped around a story about grief, legacy, and identity that never loses its own voice even while working inside Marvel's familiar formula.…

**Take That 👊 💥 DELTA-21 . . . . . . Marvel Studios Presents The " _M o t h e r_ " Of All Superhero -{ FANTASlES }- . You've Been Warned . . . . . . The Bonkers Level Here Is, Er, Well : " _E X P O N E N T I A L_ 😂 🐲❗" .** A **- _B I G_ -** Screen MINI Review. Viewed Sept. 5, '21. ______________________________________________________ Katy : "That's fine...... you can just explain on the plane". { Said to Shaun a.k.a Shang-Chi, marking a "sudden and unexpected" twist of events }. ______________________________________________________ **1. " So -{ MANY }- Upsides : "Crouching Tiger,…

**Shang-chi** is the 25th film in the marvel cinematic universe, it is deep without canyons of emotion but also comedic (with occasional comedic failures). This film embarks the MCU into a different world where tradition intertwines with modern societal problem,the film tackles this elegantly with a few stutters at the seams. As is usual with marvel property this film is a minefield of links to past and future marvel ventures, but is done in such a way that it truly can be an entry point into the extensive universe without having seen the others. The story develops slowly unwrapping the…