“Shanghai Fortress” Chinese Theatrical Poster
Hong Kong star Shu Qi (The Assassin, The Adventurers) and Lu Han (The Great Wall) are leading Shanghai Fortress, a sci-fi disaster film from director Teng Huatao (The Matrimony), which his currently streaming on Netflix.
Set in the future, the city of Shanghai China battles to defend itself against an ongoing attack by an alien force that has attacked that has laid siege to numerous cities around the globe in it’s quest to harvest a hidden energy only found on earth.
Shanghai Fortress is said to have a team of Hollywood heavies to help produce the film’s high-standard visual effects, so expect this one to complete with the best of the blockbusters.
Shu Qi? I’m in. We’ll, you know what I mean.
Shu
Hong Kong/Chinese cinema is dead. The quality in their films is far from what they once were. Don’t even try and use the Wolf Warrior/Wu Jing films to state otherwise. Sure they killed in the box office but they were bad movies especially the first one. It had little action and what little there was sucked.
There have been plenty of movies since Wolf Warrior that prove the resilience of China/HK cinema. Considering how much better the sequel was, it’s easy to pretend that part one doesn’t exist.
This movie doesn’t look promising, but thankfully it’s not the only flick coming out of China.
Let the US do money making (and that’s all) blockbusters. This movie looks like shit, The wandering Earth was horrible (couldn’t finish it), next Dante Lam looks…like shit,… Hong Kong cinema died in 1997, mainland Chinese cinema a few years later. Some cool surprises (I loved the Third Detective Dee III, Shadow, The new king of comedy, the two Brotherhood of balades, a few much smaller movies) but that’s it. But who cares? In 10 or 15 years EVERYTHING will be Di$ney. Wanna bet?
“In 10 or 15 years EVERYTHING will be Di$ney.” All the licenses, yes, but not everything.
Independence Day set in China.