Distributor: Well Go USA Entertainment It has a 14-minute prologue to explain all the characters and all the rules -- and even then it makes no sense. Mojin: The Worm Valley: Trailer 1. And it’s neither a sequel nor a prequel, as its events and depictions of characters do not fit with The Lost Legend‘s narrative. Rating: 5/10. Cast: Cai Heng, Gu Xuan, Yu Heng, Chen Yusi, Ma Yuke, Cheng Taishen TWITTER Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Mojin: The Worm Valley is to the Chinese action-fantasy genre what a superior Fast & Furious sequel is to the American gearhead action-adventure. Gonna give this one a go tonight. And as Fei Xing’s film looks set, after a few days on Chinese screen, to gross but a tiny fraction of The Lost Legend‘s box-office take, the whole thing appears quite a head-scratching way of managing a successful IP on the part of backers Enlight and Huayi. Click the link in the bio or visit frankfulci.com It all goes down fairly easily, although the film will necessarily be more appealing to fans of the books than neophytes. The latter aspect is obviously the most disturbing, since the mark looks like a really cool tattoo. That is, of course, after I go back and hunt down a copy of the first film in the franchise! I review Guan Hu's THE EIGHT HUNDRED (2020). © 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. Director: Fei Xing Check box if your review contains spoilers, Now Playing: Mojin: The Worm Valley (US Trailer 1). Please enter your birth date to watch this video: You are not allowed to view this material at this time. China, 2018, colour, 2.35:1, 3-D, 109 mins. Get a list of the best movie and TV titles recently added (and coming... What to Watch Now on HBO Max and the HBO App, Music title data, credits, and images provided by, Movie title data, credits, and poster art provided by. While “Worm Valley” is generally diverting, the plotting is remedial — and devoid of whatever personality Zhang brought to his books. Unfortunately, none of his deft sense of storytelling is carried over to The Worm Valley: after a rushed opening that never really introduces the characters properly – as if this was indeed a sequel, or a mid-season episode of a TV series – and with the stakes set up in a shockingly perfunctory manner (a quick catch-up on previous adventures never witnessed in any other film), the heroes venture into the mountain, and the film quickly becomes a bland and repetitive succession of confrontations with various creatures: carnivorous fish open the dance, and then there’s a giant crab, giant scorpions, a giant snake… Each confrontation unfolds in the exact same way, with the tomb raiders swirling around the creatures, shooting arrows or explosives or jumping and slashing away with machetes. Tonight belongs to this one... 1 minute 1 second Added: Dec 15, 2018 View All Videos (1) Mojin: The Worm Valley Reviews . Frank Scheck The problem is that with the exception of Gu Xuan and good old Cheng Taishen, they don’t have the presence required to inhabit roles that the script makes close to no attempt at fleshing out.
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