Fearless by Ronny Yu and starring Jet Li tells a powerful story of the founding of the Jin Wu Sport Federation which brought wushu (literally “martial arts” in China) together. Fearless is easily one of the best of the run of beautiful, high-production value martial movies that have come out of the East in the past few years. Fearless is hard and gritty unlike some of the others where the fights can be choreographed till they might as well be two butterflies farting at each other in the wind.
Speaking of wind I also got to see The Wind That Shakes the Barley which is a good film. It isn’t all it is cracked up to be with my main objection being that it is neither a strong tale between brothers nor a broad story of the Irish nation. It floats between the two and loses out on both. It is still worth seeing.
