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Mulan (2020)
Pretty Decent
Seriously, it was announced that this take on Mulan will be vastly different from the animated movie, that it will be based on the original story, yet people still expected that they will see Mushu and the musical sequences. The REASON for most of the negative reviews here.
Now onto the things that I liked about this movie. Mulan's relationship with his father has improved. She doesn't need much help from the ancestors (thus the absence of Mushu and his replacement by a phoenix). One of the villains has actually a great fair reason behind her actions. It is more faithful to the source material and with it being a live action movie, it is more epic and is more masterful on the fight sequences.
The actors in this movie did a great job, however the best acting goes to Gong Li's Xianniang. The villain that I was talking about. She and Mulan share similarities. They're both women and they use their chi, and it is forbidden in their China that a woman wields chi. The only difference between the two is that Mulan is accepted by her father, her comrades, and her commander. Xianniang was banished from her village, and Bori Khan, the other villain who looks like Shan Yu from the animated film, found her, and saw her as an opportunity to lead his army to success. Mulan asked Xianniang for help in finding the emperor. She told her that it is not too late to do goodness, and Xianniang was able to redeem herself, she was able to take the noble path for a while, before sacrificing herself to save Mulan.
Now the bad stuff, this movie doesn't try to be much more creative. Although it is closer to the source material, I think that they could've improve more. Mulan's training wasn't improved. It's still the same. There's also the lack of compelling characters, with the exception of Mulan and Xianniang. It isn't as memorable as the original one.
Overall, the movie is pretty decent. I enjoyed watching it. And about to Liu's message about the HK protests, watching this movie doesn't make you against human rights. It doesn't make you a supporter of the CCP. Watch this with your political views set aside.
Mission Unstapabol: The Don Identity (2019)
A great family movie
The story was great, the musical score and the cinematography is also great. Personally, I have some slight issues with the early plot twist reveal but all in all it is a great family movie. For those people thinking that this movie is same as Money Heist, there's more to it. It's also a story about family, love, justice, and forgiveness.