Kin: Fallen Star (2015) User Reviews

This is art. Art is boring.

[nogodnomasters · 1/10 · 16 October 2017]

After about 50 minutes of boring film and an ethereal grasshopper thing, an explanation is given about three Korean clans and the various gifts they have to protect this world. They combat the bad guy in a boring battle that lasts about two minutes. One of the trio is like a Phoenix and can change his form...I kept thinking about "Foxfur" and wondered if the guy just didn't quit and they wrote that in as an afterthought. It was extremely tough to sit through. Acting was bad and the plot never went anywhere. Worth a punch on the Hacker's Card.

Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

An indie that has no idea what it wants to be

[Leofwine_draca · 1/10 · 25 July 2017]

KIN: FALLEN STAR is a very boring little indie drama with fantasy touches. Funded in Hong Kong, it was shot in Los Angeles with a mixture of American and Asian-American actors. The plot is so lightweight as to be obscure, and the film has no idea what it wants to be. It's listed as a martial arts wuxia movie but there's no action of any kind, just lots of small talk and flirting between actors of limited ability. The end result is a complete dud.

Am I the only one that gets it?

[JaredChoi · 10/10 · 4 August 2017]

I watched this film based on Leofwine_draca's review to see how bad it could be. Actually I was really surprised - the narrative was complicated and unique. As a piece, the action is more in tune with the superhero genre and magic rather than straight up butt-kicking. Wuxia to us Chinese kids can mean anything from Dragonball to Crouching Tiger, so it might not be the spectacle of cables and bullet-time arrow dodging that we've gotten used to. I like to think, like the new Dragonball Super and hits like Naruto, this could be classed as a different breed of the old presentation.

I was prepared to roll my eyes at this and call it a piece of crap, but I rather enjoyed it. Maybe it appeals to those of us who don't want to conform to cultural expectation. Who knows? One thing I can say for sure, it's quite cool to see such a refreshing take on Los Angeles whilst not wincing at 50+ Asian stereotypes and omg that Japanese dude - super creepy!