Film review: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Worth and Here Today
(L-R): Xialing (Meng’er Zhang), Shang-Chi (Simu Liu) and Katy (Awkwafina) in Marvel Studios' SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS.
Heralded as the first Marvel superhero movie to feature a predominantly Asian cast, (12A) stars Simu Liu as Shaun, whom we first meet as a mild-mannered parking attendant working in San Francisco alongside his friend Katy (Awkwafina), who is shocked and awed when Shaun is attacked on a bus and employs martial arts skills to see off five assailants. Shaun, it transpires, was once trained as an assassin by his father, Xu Wenwu (Tony Leung), who is now assembling certain artefacts – jade necklaces, the ten rings of the title – in order to free his dead wife Li (Fala Chen) from an eternity in the clutches of the soul-sucking Dark Dweller.
