The Tai Chi Master (2024)
Set in the last years of the Southern Song Dynasty, when the country suffered from internal and external problems. It tells the story of Zhang Sanfeng who was obsessed with martial arts. Once his sect was destroyed, he was also involved in the conspiracy of the Demon Sect, and created the peerless magic skill of Tai Chi in the precarious society.
Co-directed by Zhenzhao Lin, himself no stranger to web based movies, The Tai Chi Master has everything you could want in a martial arts film with decent production values, plentiful action scenes and a terrific leading man in the form of Wu Yue. With all that we should have been on to a winner, but these separate elements don’t always come together to make a satisfying whole. The Tai Chi Master is certainly a worthwhile way to spend 90 minutes, but the film has some issues that stop it from being truly memorable. (Darren Murray – see full review)
“The Tai Chi Master” is parked right on the edge of silly, flirting with somber when heroes and heroines die, and truth be told, the plot makes little to no sense. But sequences play and some of the fights are borderline epic. And even if this “Tai Chi Master” is more reliant on CGI sets and effects than the Jet Li/Michelle Yeoh “Tai Chi Master” of 1993, it’s rarely less than watchable even through the dull middle acts. (Roger Moore, Movie Nation – see full review)
Wu Yue’s taijiquan is amazing, but whenever there was a few seconds of nice grounded taichi, they ruin it by adding terrible CGI effects, and terrible looking cg monsters. (Reddit)
