Thanks V!
Man of Tai Chi opened in Australia on July 4. Ruseell Edwards has posted his review entitled ‘Reeves Kicks Off Directorial Career in Style’ for SBS. In addition to giving background on the film, the piece contains the following money quotes:
Engaging his mates from his Matrix days, Tiger Hu Chen and Yuen Woo-ping, Reeves wisely makes sure that the action is right.
Chen is no Bruce Lee (who is?); nor is the film as flashy with its physical combat as some might wish, but it’s consistently of a high and entertaining standard…
But a bonus for people who watch movies all the way through, is the end credits backdropped with a simple, slow-moving pan across Beijing’s shamelessly polluted morning skyline. Who knows why this meditative shot is here, but it provides a poetic postscript to a respectable martial arts movie that keeps faith with tai chi’s spiritual focus.
The entire review can be read here.