Cage takes a secondary role in the Hayden Christensen starring adventure flick about a former crusader, assisting a Chinese Princess (Liu Yifei) and Prince (Bill Su Jiahang) to escape their dastardly brother (Andy On) who plans to off them and seize control of the throne. Cage is Gallain, Christensen’s one time trainer (wait…Obi Wan?), who has a serious case of Crusade afflicted ptsd.
It’s heavy on the white saviour narrative and at time feels like a hodge podge of historical inaccuracies (take one Chinese dynasty, add one Crusader, spice with some faux-British accents and jokes about goat farts, stir vigorously and present), but there is some decent action chops and the Chinese scenery and cinematography is pretty gorgeous.
Cage takes a secondary role in the Hayden Christensen starring adventure flick about a former crusader, assisting a Chinese Princess (Liu Yifei) and Prince (Bill Su Jiahang) to escape their dastardly brother (Andy On) who plans to off them and seize control of the throne. Cage is Gallain, Christensen’s one time trainer (wait…Obi Wan?), who has a serious case of Crusade afflicted ptsd.
It’s heavy on the white saviour narrative and at time feels like a hodge podge of historical inaccuracies (take one Chinese dynasty, add one Crusader, spice with some faux-British accents and jokes about goat farts, stir vigorously and present), but there is some decent action chops and the Chinese scenery and cinematography is pretty gorgeous.
