A new poster and trailer were released this week for Wong Kar-Wai’s biopictoral kung fu epic, Martin Scorsese Presents: The Grandmaster.
I began having some doubts about this movie when the first teaser came out back in April. It wasn’t crafted very well for its first foot into advertising the film for the U.S. market, leaving a real bitter taste in critics like myself. A new trailer was eventually unveiled to the public in July, and it was a huge improvement from the first, making it look like a film that I could invest in.
Having said this, we now have a new trailer for Wong Kar-Wai’s latest film to make its way to a limited U.S. release on Friday, August 23, 2013. If you ask me, as much as I love martial arts action and hip-hop, I have to be honest with myself here; The trailer tries too hard to sell me an action movie, and it did very little for me in terms of boosting my interest in this particular version of the film. But that’s just my opinion.
What do you guys think? Feel free to comment.
SYNOPSIS:
Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Wong Kar Wai, THE GRANDMASTER is an epic action feature inspired by the life and times of the legendary kung fu master, Ip Man. The story spans the tumultuous Republican era that followed the fall of China’s last dynasty, a time of chaos, division and war that was also the golden age of Chinese martial arts. Filmed in a range of stunning locations that include the snow-swept landscapes of Northeast China and the subtropical South, THE GRANDMASTER features virtuoso performances by some of the greatest stars of contemporary Asian cinema, including Tony Leung and Ziyi Zhang.
