Time Raiders (2016)

A tomb raider and a warrior must stop an ancient being from wreaking havoc on the world.

Director:

Daniel Lee

Writer:

Uncle Three (screenplay)

Stars:

Boran Jing, Han Lu, Jingchun Wang

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Boran Jing	...	Zhang Qiling
Han Lu	...	Wu Xie
Jingchun Wang	...	Wu Sanxing
Sichun Ma	...	Ning
Boyu Zhang	...	Fatty Wang
Jack Tu	...	Panzi
Philip Keung	...	Dakui
Ka-nin Ngo	...	Zhong
Yuqing Gao	...	Lao Tou
Xushi Fang	...	Lv Dandan
Tin Chiu Hung	...	King Xiang
Mallika Sherawat	...	Snake Empress
Vanni Corbellini	...	Hendrix
Peng Lin	...	Pingtan Musician
Jingmin Luo	...	Wu Laogou

Storyline

A writer for writing material, search to an antique shop boss called Wu Xie, and Wu is preparing to leave the city. Before he left, wu told about his strange tomb-raiding family stories, and spoke for the first time with the family adventure of bizarre events. That an occasional access to their family because a special bronze ware, traced back, found buried in the basin of northwest China west country, they recruited a batch of grave robbers to ancient city ruins, into the queen's mausoleum is located in the ancient city of underground, found the king mu and the queen asks the immortal truth. Writer after hearing the story of Wu, only to find that there are a lot of doubt, Wu had said that this was his fantasy, or is it a terrible truth that is more complicated. A truth that Wu left that became the eternal mystery of Wu.

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Plot Keywords:

immortal | tomb raider | uncle nephew relationship | tomb | martial arts | 

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Genres:

Adventure | Fantasy

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Details

Country:

China

Language:

Mandarin

Release Date:

5 August 2016 (USA)

Also Known As:

Time Raiders

Box Office

Budget:

CNY 175,000,000 (estimated)

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$150,811,637

Company Credits

Production Co:

Shanghai Film Group, Shanghai Media Group, Visualizer Film Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

124 min

Color:

Color

User Reviews

Que Chinese-styled Indiana Jones music here...

A Chinese delve in an "Indiana Jones" and "Tomb Raider" similar universe. An entertaining enough movie for what it turned out to be, surely, but it just wasn't a particularly memorable movie.

I gobble up almost all Asian movies I get the chance to watch, and having read the synopsis for "Time Raiders", then I must admit that my interest was stirred and I was somewhat anxious to sit down and watch it.

However, while the movie does boast some pretty nice special effects and CGI effects, it just suffers from having a generic script and some equally generic characters. The storyline was rather simple, yet easy to follow; you just watch the action, and you're up to speed. However, "Time Raiders" didn't turn out to be anywhere near "Indiana Jones", nor "Tomb Raider" for that matter.

Boran Jing and Lu Han do perform well and manage to keep the movie being somewhat entertaining and watchable. But they alone just couldn't manage to lift up the movie from being less than mediocre.

"Time Raiders" is adequate enough entertainment for a single viewing if you have nothing better at hand to watch. However, don't get your hopes up too high, because this wasn't really much of a memorable experience. The movie does have some good enough action and some good enough adventure, but you are just left with sort of a hollow feeling in your gut once the movie is over. There was just something missing from the movie; that one all-important spice. There are far better Chinese movies available.

My rating of "Time Raiders" is a less than mediocre four out of ten stars.