Many thanks to Titta for the link!
Clarence Tsui has reviewed Man of Tai Chi for The Hollywood Reporter. Over all it is a positive review. Mr. Tsui actually critiques the film and gives some good insight into various scenes and what Keanu Reeves was conveying with them. Here are some money quotes.
Those who expect great things from the reunion of this Matrix triumvirate — Reeves befriended both Yuen and Chen for the Wachowskis film series — will not be disappointed by the action on offer; and it’s a very diverse plate too, representing the different “paths” a martial artist could walk down.
The need to appease censors with constructive, politically correct denouements notwithstanding, Reeves has delivered a film that rejects Orientalist cliches; in fact, Man of Tai Chi — penned by Irish screenwriter Michael Cooney — could even be read as a mockery of occidental fascination with Chinese kung fu, with Donaka being the embodiment of the sinister Western svengalis trying to cash in on exotic entertainment featuring a culturally different protagonist.
…Man of Tai Chi, at the end of the day, offers a look at the universal struggle faced by a David in the land of Goliaths.
The film is clearly no simple vanity project for Reeves. While weighed down by digressions and contraptions, Man of Tai Chi is an adequate and ambitious effort from a first-time director, who could have enhanced his on-screen philosophical arguments with a bit more depth and done with a touch less of the admittedly riveting man-to-man melee.