2019 · comedy · martial-arts
The Legend of Black Snake
Directed by Thomas Ngijol, Karole Rocher1h 22m2019
After years spent in Paris, Clotaire Sangala returns to his native country, Africa. Raised by a Chinese martial arts grandfather, convinced to have been found in a garbage can, Clotaire knows nothing of the glorious past of his parents. He will become "Black Snake", the masked and ultra-sapped superhero, liberator of the people against the dictator Hezekiah.
Our read: The Legend of Black Snake (2019) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive comedy · martial-arts entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, gentle comedy / martial-arts, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- inventive
- funny
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