“Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” (2021)

Steven Barnes
6 min readSep 4, 2021

I remember the moment I fell in love with SHANG CHI: LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS

Wasn’t the bus sequence, which everyone raves about. It was the fight on the scaffolding, which was very, very pure Jackie Chan. I thought “if you ever wanted to know what peak era Jackie Chan would have done with a Marvel movie, there it is.”

And it went on from there to become even better.

I have to seriously congratulate the creative team. They took a VERY problematic concept from the 70’s and turned it into a…

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Steven Barnes

Steven Barnes is a NY Times bestselling author, ecstatic husband and father, and holder of black belts in three martial arts. www.lifewritingpodcast.com.