Vincent Zhao and Wu Yue are excellent in their fight scenes and both do act pretty well, especially Wu as Chen Zhen. This was Wu's debut and he shows very good acting skills for a new comer.
Unfortunately, there isn't much else to like about the series. The show drags on and on with repetitious scenes and little self-awareness - scenes seem to contradict one another sometimes. Characters get shot and stabbed in one scene, but they are fine in the next, or the wound is in a totally different place. I understand that scenes usually aren't shot in sequence chronologically, but it's just sloppy work when lines in one scene clearly contradict what happened in the previous scene. Characters also do incredibly stupid things and plot holes are plenty.
Foreigners are stereotyped as villains yet again. Not a single foreigner can be loosely classified as a good person. There's even an homage scene to Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury, where Chinese and dogs aren't permitted in a park. Done at least twice, in fact.
I would recommend the follow up series which stars Wu Yue as Chen Zhen over this one.
Unfortunately, there isn't much else to like about the series. The show drags on and on with repetitious scenes and little self-awareness - scenes seem to contradict one another sometimes. Characters get shot and stabbed in one scene, but they are fine in the next, or the wound is in a totally different place. I understand that scenes usually aren't shot in sequence chronologically, but it's just sloppy work when lines in one scene clearly contradict what happened in the previous scene. Characters also do incredibly stupid things and plot holes are plenty.
Foreigners are stereotyped as villains yet again. Not a single foreigner can be loosely classified as a good person. There's even an homage scene to Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury, where Chinese and dogs aren't permitted in a park. Done at least twice, in fact.
I would recommend the follow up series which stars Wu Yue as Chen Zhen over this one.
