When Hu Baiyi employs his knowledge of the Bagua to help circumvent traps and pitfalls, I felt a respect for the tomb and its inhabitants from him. This gives the film’s adventure scenes an inherently different feel. Here the leads are Chinese and the tombs they explore are also Chinese. I may be wrong, but it seems like most similar films feature a white male lead exploring and plundering some other culture’s artifacts.
What sets Mojin: The Lost Legend apart from other tomb-raiding adventure films is the cultural aspect.
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To be honest, I missed why they decided to give it all up, but it doesn’t really matter because this is the beginning of the movie and of course they come out of retirement! And because this is a movie and things are always related, the job that does the trick has direct ties to when Hu Baiyi and Wang Kaixuan were among the educated youth living in a remote part of Inner Mongolia. They are legendary and skilled, but here they are selling trinkets out of their coats in a New York alleyway. But when we first meet them, they have retired and moved to New York. Hu Baiyi (Chen Kun), Wang Kaixuan (Huang Bo) and Shirley Yang (Shu Qi) are Mojin Xiaowei, professional tomb raiders equipped with their quick wits and a trusty compass attuned to find treasure. Don’t get me wrong, Mojin is full of adventurous tomb raiding, explosions and zombies, it’s just that it doesn’t end there. The film is actually about letting go, which is fitting for a film so entrenched in the idea of delving deep into the past. On the surface, Mojin: The Lost Legend is about venturing into elaborate tombs and hunting for ancient treasure, but it has a much sweeter heart than that suggests. Starring Chen Kun, Huang Bo, Shu Qi, Angelababy, Xia Yu, Liu Xiao-Qing, Cherry Ngan Cheuk-Ling, Jonathan Kos-ReadĮxpectations: Moderate.
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