mojin the lost legend full movie with english subtitles

The occasional outburst of whining and pouting makes her not quite up there with Angelina Jolie’s Lara Croft.Ĭhen is cut out for a dashing action hero, albeit a rather indistinct one. But her love-hate pas de deux with Chen’s character is stiff and tiresome. She is athletic, agile and plays it cool most of the time. There are doses of gore and thrill thrown in, as the zombies look vivid and fearsome but quickly crumble when being hit as if they had stepped out of The Mummy series. Wuershan’s visual panache renders the whole film a pure spectacle, especially with the underground mausoleum, where the bulk of the story takes place. The movie is lavish, packed with eye-dazzling action and fantastic plots, making it feel right at home among the Lara Croft: Tomb Raider films. Cultural particulars are turned into plot gimmicks as Chinese emperors’ mausoleums become the playground for the modern action heroes, who use Bagua (八卦), or the eight trigrams, to solve mysteries and hunt treasures. Knowledge of the Cultural Revolution is not required to enjoy Mojin, as the movie is made to engage a global audience. Tired of hawking “Chinese treasures” in the city’s backstreet, Wang returns to his old trade by taking on a mission for a mysterious, wealthy businesswoman (Liu Xiaoqing, 劉曉慶), who wants an ancient meteorite called the Equinox Flower, which has the power to resurrect the dead and is believed to be buried in an ancient tomb of a Khitan princess in Inner Mongolia. The story cuts to New York City in the late 1980s, where Wang and his two partners, Hu (Chen Kun, 陳坤) and Shirley (Shu Qi, 舒淇), now live, having retired from tomb raiding. Through off-screen narration by Wang (Huang Bo, 黃渤), we learn that they are Mojin Xiaowei (摸金校尉), an ancient school of tomb raiders once commanded by Chinese emperors. The film opens with three adventurers entering a subterranean mausoleum. Based on Chinese writer Zhang Muye‘s (張牧野) immensely popular adventure series, Ghost Blows Out the Light (鬼吹燈), this is a precisely-crafted work of entertainment featuring a star-studded cast and stunning CGI effects, showing that China is catching up with Hollywood in manufacturing blockbuster entertainment.

The latest production by Chinese director Wuershan (烏爾善) is an adventure-fantasy movie designed to thrill and entertain, depicting a bunch of action heroes braving zombie armies in search for a stone with magic power. It makes no sense to expect Mojin - the Lost Legend (尋龍訣) to make sense.

Mojin the lost legend full movie with english subtitles