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Shang-Chi is a hotel parking valet who reveals he's a martial-arts expert when he is attacked by thugs aboard a bus. He and buddy Katy head to the mysterious East to find his sister Xialing (Meng'er Zhang) in order to deal with their father Wenwu (Tony Leung Chiu-wai). Their journey leads to a village guarded by a bamboo forest, where Disney decided that what a martial-arts movie needed most was animatronic flying lions and dragons.

Up until then this was a respectful updating of a non-PC Marvel comic book from the 1970s that was originally supposed to be based on TV's Kung Fu. Rights unavailable, it was instead based on Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu, who's even more non-PC today. For those in the know Wenwu is actually The Mandarin, although all this background is rendered invisible by the Marvel factory gloss.

What's left are some excellent action sequences that evoke Jackie Chan's Golden Harvest era (the film is dedicated to Brad Allan, 2nd Unit director, supervising stunt coordinator, and a member of Jackie Chan's Stunt Team), nice comic interplay between Liu and Awkwafina, a few Marvel cameos, a wondrous turn by Michelle Yeoh in the third act, and Tony Leung Chiu-wai, following the path of award-winning supervillains like Jeff Bridges and Sir Ben Kingsley. Leung is the best Hong Kong actor of his generation, and he brings nuance and gravity to a film that doesn't ultimately deserve it.