Well Go USA has tabbed Sept. 1 for DVD and Blu-ray editions
of director Jackie Wu’s Wolf Warrior.
A generation ago, the film industry in China would have been
incapable of making anything like Wolf Warrior. Jackie Wu’s character (yes, he also stars), Sergeant
Leng Feng, would have been a one-dimensional cardboard soldier — glorious to be
sure — in the People’s Liberation Army.
His exploits would have been as difficult to watch as would have the
predictability of the outcome of the a-to-b-to-c storyline.
Not so today. Wolf
Warrior is both slick — matching anything out of Hollywood in terms of
production quality — and multi-faceted.
The film works as either a straight-up action thriller, and not
surprisingly, also as a well-crafted propaganda piece that extols the glorious
virtues of this modern Chinese warrior.
Sergeant Feng is a marksman every bit as skillful as U.S.
Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, and in an extended opening sequence he displays his
expertise with a near-impossible shot that was taken against explicit
orders.
That bit of pique lands him in hot water with his superiors
and subsequent confinement where he is to ponder his transgression. This initial set up allows filmmaker Jackie
Wu to showcase Feng’s shooting skills and a chance at redemption when he is
offered an opportunity to do just that, redeem himself, by joining the elite
Wolf Warriors.
Training and comradeship follow and it is during one of
these mock exercises — ironically against his former unit — that a band of
foreign mercenaries (lead by Scott Adkins) suddenly emerge from the woods with
specific orders to assassinate Feng.
Circle back to the opening sequence, his target was the brother of a
ruthless drug lord and these invading killers are his revenge!
Well Go USA’s release of Wolf Warrior is in
Mandarin with English subtitles.
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