A young Chinese American woman, Nicky Shen, leaves college and makes a life-changing journey to a Shaolin monastery in China. She returns to her hometown and uses her martial arts skills to ... Read allA young Chinese American woman, Nicky Shen, leaves college and makes a life-changing journey to a Shaolin monastery in China. She returns to her hometown and uses her martial arts skills to fight crime and corruption.A young Chinese American woman, Nicky Shen, leaves college and makes a life-changing journey to a Shaolin monastery in China. She returns to her hometown and uses her martial arts skills to fight crime and corruption.
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After watching the pilot, I must say I had higher hopes. This is aimed at a young audience, more pre-teen than young adult, but for that genre, it's a decent watch. I had hoped it would be a contemporary spin on the original series, but, then again, I was a young teen when I was a fan of it, so maybe it is the same audience. The plot is simplistic, the fights are engaging, it will appeal to young Asian viewers, and, despite the dumbing down of some of the dialogue, I'm going to give it a passing grade. I give this series a 6 (fair) out of 10. {Action Adventure}
How can you pass such extreme judgement after 1 episode? Give things a chance! I like that the cast is almost all Asian - heck let's remember David Carradine was a white man playing a half-Chinese man and while he was good in the role it could never be authentic. I find the show enjoyable and I look forward to more episodes. Rating a 7 for now. Not a fan of filming in Canada pretending to be San Francisco but that's not the actor's fault.
Based on the writings of Bruce Lee, Warrior (2019) is an excellent TV show with some well choreographed martial arts.
It IS possible!
But then someone creates this teenage angst driven show, calls it Kung Fu and runs away.
The acting and fighting reminds me of Iron Fist. It's just not any good. The story is horrible and this show is just such a lackluster.
I'll go watch Into the Badlands again and bite my pillow because I had such high expectations to this show.
It IS possible!
But then someone creates this teenage angst driven show, calls it Kung Fu and runs away.
The acting and fighting reminds me of Iron Fist. It's just not any good. The story is horrible and this show is just such a lackluster.
I'll go watch Into the Badlands again and bite my pillow because I had such high expectations to this show.
Yes, I watched the original Kung Fu and while the story takes a very different Generation Z young female approach to the story, I find it VERY watchable. If you want the same mold as the original, sorry; this will not be your show. But if you can revisit a discipline from a modern Chinese American approach, I think you will appreciate the struggles this young woman is going through. But if ONLY a David Carradine clone will do, then don't bother. I certainly find this show to be above average. I'm not going to say "stellar" in the 8-10 range. As I have gotten further into the series I'm liking the main character even more. The plot line about her aunt is a nice twist.
As a Chinese who grow up with Kung Fu movie, action movie with martial art are too violent in this day. And violence seems to be the only thing they know.
But Kung Fu (not this show) is not about how to end the fight with violence. It's about to show who the character is between the fight. Therefore I give this show a 70/100. It cares about the character, and that's good enough for me.
Also, it it has a good story to remind me those day that Kung Fu movie entertain the viewer, not to use violence to compress them in the chair. I love to see what's coming next.
But Kung Fu (not this show) is not about how to end the fight with violence. It's about to show who the character is between the fight. Therefore I give this show a 70/100. It cares about the character, and that's good enough for me.
Also, it it has a good story to remind me those day that Kung Fu movie entertain the viewer, not to use violence to compress them in the chair. I love to see what's coming next.
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- GoofsThere is a stock footage sequence every week, that shows the streetscape outside the "Harmony Dumpling Restaurant" in Chinatown. There a fake San Francisco cable car in that sequence. You also hear the brassy, insistent ding of a cable car bell, being rung twice. The fake cable car is clearly a two axle motorized vehicle running on four pneumatic rubber tires. The roadway is also missing the required steel tracks as used by a real San Francisco cable car.
San Francisco cable cars have a complicated undercarriage, and the car rides on a pair of four-wheel trucks with flanged iron wheels (no pneumatic rubber tires), designed for the cable car narrow gauge track of 3 ft 6 in (1.067 mm).
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