Shaolin Girl (DVD) (Collector's Edition) (English Subtitled) (Japan Version) DVD Region 2
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Kevin Kennedy
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February 21, 2009
This customer review refers to Shaolin Girl (DVD) (English Subtitled) (Hong Kong Version)
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February 21, 2009
This customer review refers to Shaolin Girl (DVD) (English Subtitled) (Hong Kong Version)
Inconsistency, thy name is "Shaolin Girl"
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In "Shaolin Girl", Shibasaki Kou stars as Rin, the granddaughter of the master of a martial arts dojo, who at an early age is packed off to Shaolin Temple. Nine years later, with her grandfather now in the grave, she returns to her Japanese hometown to find the dojo closed and dilapidated. Her mission in life is to restore the dojo and introduce Shaolin techniques to Japan. Miss Shibasaki plays her role with an amusingly grim determination ... and looks absolutely gorgeous. Rin finds Iwai (Eguchi Yosuke), her old martial arts master, working as a cook in a Chinese restaurant -- and looking just like Jack Sparrow. She fails in her attempt to interest him in reopening the dojo. Beautiful waitress Minmin (Kitty Zhang), after seeing a bit of Rin's skills, invites her to join her university's lacrosse team. It's a rather peculiar school; we never see anyone studying. The emphasis appears to be on developing world-class athletes -- for reasons never explained in the English subtitles -- and the university's president clearly has malevolent purposes for the entire enterprise (again unexplained). Rin quickly is admitted to the school and added to the lacrosse team, where her astounding martial arts skills dominate play to the detriment of the team. Rin is benched by the coach and humiliated. She and her teammates then spend hours in disciplined training, emerging as an unbeatable, tightly-knit lacrosse-playing machine. Next, out of nowhere, the story shifts bizarrely into Tomb Raider mode, with Rin becoming a kind of Lara Croft doing battle against the empire of evil created by the university president. This transition is so jarring that it seems hard to imagine that the filmmakers didn't realize the mistake that they'd made. When "Shaolin Girl" basically echoes "Shaolin Soccer", it is a light, funny, entertaining film. However, the battle against the evil university president simply does not belong in this movie. Don't blame Shibasaki Kou; she is great throughout the film. Kitty Zhang provides a pleasant presence. The attempts at comedy from Lam Chi Chung and Tin Kai Man fall flat. I will watch this film multiple times because Shibasaki Kou is so good, but, unless you -- like me -- are a big fan of hers, I can't really recommend "Shaolin Girl". (By the way, check out the Tsui Hark film "All About Women" if you really want to see Kitty Zhang shine.) |
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