TL;DR – A good start to a season however it struggles to keep the momentum moving in the back half of the season.
Score – 3.5 out of 5 stars
Review –
Sometimes in life, it is the simple things that really work. For me, that is a
show with a well-crafted story, strong characters, clear action, and with the fundamentals
of filmmaking down pact. Now, once you have that, if you want to spice it up
with some deep lore, building upon some grand mythology, I am also here for it.
Today we look at a series that has the characters, has the action, and the
filmmaking, but does not quite nail that story component.
So to set the scene, we open in on San Francisco and Kai Jin (Iko Uwais) who
works as a chef at his friend Tommy’s (Lawrence Kao) place (well actually his
friend’s sister Jenny’s (Li Jun Li) place but it is complicated). Tommy is
throwing a party for his Triad friends and when something goes wrong Kai steps
in to stop one of the cooks getting attacked. This means that the Triad has to
respond, attacking Kai while he works in a food truck. As he is escaping he
hits a woman, instead of finding someone injured on the street, he finds a woman
(Celia Au) who gives him the power of 1000 monks to fight an oncoming storm. So
let’s break the Wu Assassins down, using those four categories we mention in
the introduction. Now from here, we will
be looking at the season as a whole, so there will be some [SPOILERS]
ahead.
