Rise of the Legend Movie Review

Make sure you save the date for May 24, 2016 when Rise of the Legend comes to Blu-ray & DVD

Lei is an orphan and a warrior. He joins the infamous Black Tigers gang as an “adopted son” by bringing back the head of a rival gang. The gang controls the piers as well as gambling, opium dens, and brothels. Lei works as a mole within the Black Tigers aiding the Orphan Gang to retake the piers and avenge the deaths of their fathers and free the 300. This movie also has an attempt at a love story and has flashbacks.

In this film, Wong is the son of a humanitarian doctor (Tony Leung) who administers to the poor and shelters orphans. He becomes close friends with three of the children, including one boy whom he helped his father to save- his best friend, Fiery. Even so he can’t always protect the ones he cares about and one of them, Little Fa, is kidnapped and sold into prostitution. After an act of sabotage destroys the orphanage and kills Wong’s father, Wong and Fiery swear revenge. Fate intervenes as a monk takes in Wong and Fiery, training them and helping them understand what it is they truly mean to accomplish.

This is a very long nearly epic tale of a man who championed the people vs. the “villains.” The film has some good choreographed “Kill Bill” type of over-the-top martial arts. Just of touch of the anti-gravity. Most of the English subtitles had smooth translations.  There are knife cuts, blood, severed heads, etc. The sex scenes are toned down. We do see a woman’s bareback. We see her garment touched, but never with a face attached to it. I wasn’t sure what he was grabbing. The Three adopted sons represented 3 evils: Blood-thirst, greed, and lust.

Movie Information on Rise of the Legend:

• Actors: Eddie Peng, Sammo Hung, Angelababy
• Directors: Chow Hin Yeung Roy
• Format: Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, THX, Widescreen
• Language: Chinese
• Subtitles: English
• Dubbed: English

• Rated:
  Unrated

  Not Rated

• Studio: Well Go USA
• DVD Release Date: May 24, 2016
• Run Time: 131 minutes
• Bonus Features Include a Five-Part Making-of Featurette
• Arriving on Blu-ray & DVD May 24th

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