Man of Tai Chi is a multilingual martial arts film that features dialogue in Mandarin, English and Hong Kong Cantonese. It stars Keanu Reeves and has him in his directorial debut and co-stars Tiger Chen, Iko Uwais, Karen Mok, and Simon Yam. This film felt like a passion project of Keanu, using his friend and student Tiger Chen in the lead role who's Yuen Wo Ping's protege (one of the inductees on the Avenue of Stars in Hong Kong). Karen Mok also does a good job, but I would say the better performances go to Tiger and Keanu. These actors/martial artists know their craft, it's a blessing to witness.
A young martial artist's unparalleled Tai Chi skills land him in a highly lucrative underworld fight club.
Man of Tai Chi offers you a great martial arts movie, not much else than that. I liked it a lot and loved how it was multilingual which I'm quite sure is what Keanu Reeves wanted. It's quite unusual to see Keanu Reeves portraying the antagonist but it was a nice change, it was a good performance and a great directing job, his direction surprised me and it was overall quite great. I think the screenplay was average, nothing more, story's simplistic. The editing differed from good to great, the fight sequences were well edited and made the fight sequences flow so great. But where it shines is truly around the fight sequences, its some terrific martial arts, where you see these actors really perform their own stunts and kung fu. It's what I wanted out of Man of Tai Chi and it was what I got. For a directional debut, Keanu Reeves succeeded in bringing us a great martial arts and action movie, though the box office was a failure I wouldn't say the film was. It lacked in drama but exceeded in its fight sequences. Man of Tai Chi has the potential to gain a fan base of its own, perhaps even a cult following.
A young martial artist's unparalleled Tai Chi skills land him in a highly lucrative underworld fight club.
Man of Tai Chi offers you a great martial arts movie, not much else than that. I liked it a lot and loved how it was multilingual which I'm quite sure is what Keanu Reeves wanted. It's quite unusual to see Keanu Reeves portraying the antagonist but it was a nice change, it was a good performance and a great directing job, his direction surprised me and it was overall quite great. I think the screenplay was average, nothing more, story's simplistic. The editing differed from good to great, the fight sequences were well edited and made the fight sequences flow so great. But where it shines is truly around the fight sequences, its some terrific martial arts, where you see these actors really perform their own stunts and kung fu. It's what I wanted out of Man of Tai Chi and it was what I got. For a directional debut, Keanu Reeves succeeded in bringing us a great martial arts and action movie, though the box office was a failure I wouldn't say the film was. It lacked in drama but exceeded in its fight sequences. Man of Tai Chi has the potential to gain a fan base of its own, perhaps even a cult following.