Tai Chi Zero (2012)
Average Rating: 5.8/10
Reviews Counted: 28
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 11
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Average Rating: 5.6/10
Critic Reviews: 11
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 4
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In legendary Chen Village, everyone is a martial arts master, using their powerful Chen Style Tai Chi in all aspects of their lives. Lu Chan has arrived to train, but the villagers are forbidden to teach Chen Style to outsiders, and do their best to discourage him by challenging him to a series of fights. Everyone, from strong men to young children, defeats him using their Tai Chi moves. But when a man from the village's past returns with a frightening steampowered machine and plans to build a
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Tony Leung Ka Fai
Chen Chang Xing, Master... -
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Eddie Peng
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Shao-feng Feng
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Da Ying
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Mandy Lieu
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Fung Tsui-Fan
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Leung Siu Lung
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Shen Si
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Feng Hak-On
Lao Zhao -
Xiong Naijin
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Xin Xin Xiong
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Wu Di
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Paul Philip Clark
British soldier
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All Critics (28) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (18) | Rotten (11) | DVD (1)
"Tai Chi Zero" is often more distracting than diverting with its everything-goes aesthetic - there are strains of steampunk, manga and silent film comedy, with video-game touches.
Top Critic"Tai Chi Zero" is loads of fun to watch, especially a battle in which watermelons, bananas and other fruits and veggies serve as flying weapons.
A martial-arts adventure with more video-game and comic-book DNA than the traditional kung fu flick, "Tai Chi Zero" is good, if empty-headed, fun.
Exhausting to watch, Tai Chi Zero is all flash and little substance.
"Zero" is the first part of a trilogy. Part two, titled "Tai Chi Hero," is due in January. The legend is off to a promising start.
Fung is enjoying himself so much that he doesn't want the movie to end - and his delight is infectious.
Steam-powered by its energy and fun, the ingenious and clever Tai Chi Zero ticks along nicely, breathing fresh life into an old genre.
Sort of a kung-fu film through a 'Scott Pilgrim' lens, it is a slight but stylistic romp.
Lavishes much care on the scenario, but the nonstop CGI could be a drawback for purists.
It's meant either to aggressively defy convention or to distract moviegoers from a story that is pedestrian and predictable.
A love triangle and some Steampunk machinery add interest, and Fung's spunky inventiveness makes this worth seeing.
The true gist is a kung fu movie for the modern age: jam packed full of the hyper kinetic stimuli of an ADHD generation.
Tai Chi Zero is constantly evolving and changing as a film. It's as if it completely redefines what a dynamic martial arts film can and should be.
And although disappointed by this first part of the trilogy, there was enough to hold my interest to make me at least willing to give part 2 a chance.
An energetic martial-arts romp with a stylish steampunk twist, Tai Chi 0 assaults the viewer with frenetic fight scenes, audacious video-game-inspired graphics, and nearly enough goofball humor to have it qualify as a comedy.
Essentially a live-action anime, it sweats rivulets of Tarantino-era digital anxiety from all pores-every kick, punch, pan, and zoom exaggerated for maximum impact.
Splashy but ultimately an empty bauble...By the halfway point you'll likely be more exhausted than exhilarated.
Hyped as a steampunk kung fu movie that revolutionizes the genre, Tai Chi Zero spends most of its time spinning its wheels.
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Foreign Titles
- Tai Chi 0 (DE)
- Tai Chi Zero (UK)
