The Miracle Fighters
- warm
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
Warm, breathless, measured kung-fu / fantasy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →When two elderly Taoist priests take on a young apprentice who is mistakenly presumed to be the long-lost crown prince of the Imperial Court, the emperor dispatches a eunuch with magic powers to apprehend him.
Our read · The Miracle Fighters (1982) reads as a warm, breathless, surreal kung-fu · fantasy · taoist entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of The Miracle Fighters
What watching it is actually like.
“You want wild Hong Kong martial-arts fantasy comedy with magic and acrobatics.”
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The reading.
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