Friday, 17 April 2020

VOD: Shanghai Fortress (dir: Hua-Tao Teng, 2019)

"Isn't the bar you set for yourself a bit too high?"

In the vein of The Wandering Earth, this year's big-scale Chinese fantasy/sci-fi blockbuster certainly delivers on scale and spectacle.  Once you get past the oddly videogame-looking first attack sequence, the effects and story improve considerably and are both sustained well over the whole film.  To say that Independence Day is the touchstone here would be a massive understatement, but there is plenty of big-scale action on display here to entertain genre fans sufficiently.

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