Shaolin

[yoco]

Release Date: September 9, 2011 (limited)
Studio: Well Go USA / Variance Films
Director: Benny Chan
Screenwriter: Not Available
Starring: Jackie Chan, Andy Lau, Nicholas Tse, Fan Bingbing
Genre: Action
MPAA Rating: Not Available

As feuding warlords fight to expand their power, the noble monks of the Shaolin temple clean up the mess left behind, tending to the injured while trying their best to protect the poor and weak. The young general Hao Jie (Andy Lau from "Warlords" and "Infernal Affairs") has caused much of this mess, with his violent and ruthless tactics that rarely discriminate between soldiers and civilians.

[WzT]

China no longer have ShaoLin any more.

[slikrapid]

the noble monks of the Shaolin temple clean up the mess left behind

its not their 'job' to clean-up the mess or to get directly involved in it - any involvement is of secondary importance, basically purely circumstantial (after the fact), whereas the movie wants us to believe its something of major importance

the movie itself is quite unrealistic, exaggerating the hopelessness/tragedies of the civilians, confusion/goal-less-ness among the monks and powerfulness/disrespectfulness of the general/army, the characters being mere cardboard cut-outs lacking any personal elements that might differ from the scriptwriter's simplistic by-the-rule role-playing, turning the movie into a caricatural wannabe imagining its own grandeur

China no longer have ShaoLin any more.

sure they do, just not the same as before, ie. they mostly (or their commercialized mainstream representatives) managed to forget or misinterpret what their role/mission/tasks/meaning/purpose actually are - its something that comes along with the so-called 'new age' where new generations get blinded by & addicted to the illusory technological/societal 'advancements', throwing away or redefining or marginalizing previous traditions, failing to understand their essence/meaning, spreading this new-age ignorance onto the future generations, which naturally brings continuing/increasing degradation into their own lives and lives of those who naively expect true/expert guidance/advice from such 'authorities', whose status gets taken for granted via their inherited titles as opposed to the true/proper way via a continuous visible & insightful action that directly presents evidence of their level & worthiness of their status