This film has been mocked and slammed by western media, accused of being a cheap rip-off of Marvel´s Avengers with all the heroes of Chinese Folklore, and is undeniable that the film deserved all the backlash and didn´t deserve any praise, but it wasn´t neither the big happening that seemed that western media tried to make us believe it was, since it was just another low-budget independent film destined to be lost and forgotten in the vast sea of Chinese streaming platforms, that on other hand, probably felt benefited by all that negative that translated into free publicity that would give it some undeserved 15 minutes of fame.
Captain China is a mega-popular super idiot… Uh, I mean… A superhero, to whom money and fame has completely gone over the top of his head, (as it happened to Van Damme in the early 90´s)
But soon, he falls from grace when he is defeated. and humiliated by a foreign enemy in front of all his fans and the whole world … Submerged in alcohol and all the bad habits that money can buy, Captain China is recruited by two weirdos to join a group of heroes of national folklore like Sun Wukong, Yang Guo from Return of the Heroes Condor and even Bruce Lee, among many others … in order to fight a pale enemy who wishes to impose a reign of foreign superheroes in the land of Mao Zedong … to prevent it, the heroes China will fight to restore the legacy of their national heroes for the rest of eternity … And by doing this, bringing into this cinematic swamp all the popular heroes of Chinese folklore, putting into the screen some fellas wearing cheap costumes as if were your son´s school play, that scoundrel of scriptwriter will try to justify the 60-minutes of your precious life that you will never ever get it back…
A goofy madness made with four yuans, that is none other thing that a reluctant parody of superhero cinema lacking any type of imagination, and left over from any type of talent, which begins with a opening sequence where the logo of Marvel Studios is batantly ripped off, with the intention of maybe tricking some fools to believe that this is just another chapter in their cinematic universe, to tell a moronic nonsense, where in most of the occasions due to the laziness of not having to shoot action scenes, fights are represented in comic-book stripes, making you feel ashamed of yourself for being wasting your time in front of a screen watching this mess that surfaced from the most rotten swamps of what once was called the seventh art.
A masterpiece of trash cinema? Only time will tell…
And actually, Captain China has its own comic-book. A Captain America rip-off that takes itself much more seriously than this adaptation, and that works as propaganda for the Communist Party.