There's a few choice of words that I could use to describe this movie: brutal, gory, predictable, cheesy (as in the lines), funny, tear-inducing.
Yep, basically that sums it all up.
Just ten minutes in to the movie, Andy Lau started to kill mercilessly. Like, SHOOT, BAM, DIE, Hahaha and walked away - those type of killing.
Like the saying, karma comes back to bite you in the ass, he got his payback - getting assassinated (attempt) (very brutal and gory) and watching his daughter die right before his eyes (I swear, so tear-inducing!!!)
The storyline then got really predictable - man felt remorse over his past actions, repents, turns a new leaf. Instead of killing people, he now protects people. Very typical - complete with very cheesy lines - you know those that were overused and makes you kind of wanna go urgh, again?!
While I normally couldn't stand Jackie Chan (some of his roles are always the same kind, no?), but I kind of liked his role in Shaolin. He's the funny guy here. He made this movie goes lighter than its original plot.
Other than that, it's all tear-inducing. Trust me, when a person chooses to die in the most brutal way (being slashed by twin blades and finally having those blades struck through his body and through the door he was standing against) because he's trying to buy time for his companion to run away, how could you not cry (while cringing in disgust at the brutal killing).
Or, when a guy is still trying to make the person who betray him to see reason and repent for his mistakes even when he was dying... ohmygod, really. My eyes are like the waterworks that night.
All in all, Shaolin is not a very good movie to watch during the Chinese New Year. Brutality and sadness aside, the movie is so-so - the message is quite clear, story so-so.
But, Nicholas Tze is a PLUS! He's so HOT! :D
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