Wong fei hung VI: Sai wik hung see (1997)

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Jet Li returned to one of his most celebrated franchises as Wong Fei-Hung in Once Upon a Time in China and America, along with co-stars Rosamund Kwan (Aunt 13) and Xiong Xin-Xin (Seven) after a two-movie break, and this time, they travel to the Far West! Sammo Hung directs, so the action is of a high level and often amusing, but plot-wise, it often feels more like a series of vignettes. I get it. China's most famous folk hero is only going to visit the American West once, so you want to touch on as many western tropes as you can. A stage coach ride, Wong Fei-Hung getting amnesia and temporarily becoming a Native Brave, the crooked mayor, the overwhelmed sheriff, gunfights, a bank robbery, a hanging, cartoonish black hats hitting the town... in addition to having our heroes be community leaders as per the Once Upon a Time format. It just doesn't all hang together very cohesively. There are still some very fun set pieces here, and the setting allows for things the franchise hadn't done yet. I don't know, maybe it was a missed opportunity not to borrow more from Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West, but then, that's a quirk of translation, isn't it? 5 years 7 months ago