1992 · martial-arts · action · history
Once Upon a Time in China II
Directed by Tsui Hark1h 53m1992
Wong Fei-Hung faces the White Lotus Society, a fanatical cult seeking to drive the Europeans out of China through violence, even attacking Chinese who follow Western ways. Wong must also defend revolutionary Dr. Sun Yat Sen from the military.
Our read: Once Upon a Time in China II (1992) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded martial-arts · action · history entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme martial-arts / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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