1993 · martial-arts · action · drama
Tai Chi Master
Directed by Yuen Woo-ping1h 36m1993
Falsely accused for cheating in a martial arts competition, two boyhood friends are banished from their Shaolin Temple and go their separate ways. As adults, they join opposing sides in a civil war. When one betrays the other, they settle their differences mano-a-mano.
Our read: Tai Chi Master (1993) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive martial-arts · action · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured martial-arts / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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- intense
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