"Brush with Danger" is extremely entertaining in a very human way. We care about the characters and this is unique for a marshal arts movie that so often relies on a series of spectacular and CGI-enhanced action to keep the audiences' interest. Also, I do not recall one crashing car or slow-motion explosion. "Brush with Danger" is a "feel-good" movie in the best way.
Directed by Livi Zheng.
Strring Ken Zheng, Livi Zheng, Nikita Breznikov, Norman Newkirk.
Spiritual Indo-Chinese Masterpiece produced by Wong Kar Wai!Xuan Zang was a Chinese Buddhist monk who was born during the Tang dynasty, and eventually travelled to India over deserts and mountains. The story depicts the 17 years long legendary seventh century spiritual journey of Buddhist monk Xuan Zang (Hsüan-tsang), who dissatisfied with the translations of Buddhist texts available in china and [...]
Peace pact between humans and machines is in danger!In the not-too-distant future, a tenuous peace between humans and remarkably humanlike “machines”—some don’t even know they’re not real—is tested when synthetics begin spontaneously exploding. A military-led search for these unwitting suicide bombers begins, sending a terrified machine woman and her human partner on the run.An Arab re [...]
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