Double World

 Another asian cinema movie for me and Noshi, as we sat down with Netflix and looked at Double World (or Zheng tu as it's original title is).

And it was yet another departure from Hollywood films for various details and reasons...

When a neighbouring country becomes to powerful and threatens to invade, the ruler organises a comptetion between various tribes to select the new warlord for their armies.  But amongst them is Chu Hun, brother to the fallen previous warlord and labelled a deserter.  Fact is, their army was actually betrayed and he fled to take his revenge on the traitor that now holds the highest rank of advisor to the Emperor and make him pay for the dead of his brother and the fall of his nation.

As he travels to the tournament with a common thief, Dong Yilong, they are joined by a young girl, miss Jinggang, as their third companion for the tournament.  In this, they have to face off the other tribes in a deadly duel, before being faced with the hardest challenge of all, each other.

But when Jinggang is betrayed and murdered by the royal advisor and his men, they also learn that Dong is actually the rightfull heir of the neighbouring country and the key to preventing the upcoming war.  Gathering the other tribes, they stage an assassination of the advisor, at the moment he tries to place a bloody coup to the Emperor...

A fun film, this sort of feels like how the RL movie of Mulan actually could have been, overflowed with a Mortal Kombat sauce.  It was a good movie (though not on the level of the Ying Yang Master for me) and one more gem in the asian movie culture.

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