Tom yum goong

 

Before being “a karate film” (which it is; it’s got the black belt of the genre and wears it well), Tom yum goong is a declaration of principles. It goes for broke on a physical cinema that grabs the stylization suffered (and turned into the standard) by the gentle art of kicking some ass that mocks Newton and that invention of his called gravity, and kicks it right in the forehead. No wires, no computers, no yelling “oh, look, I saw the greatest hits by the Shaw Brothers on VHS”: a devotee a [...]

Duration

90 min

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