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Hi everyone, BEST MOVIE REVIEW here.

Today’s movie is “SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS”.

Spoilers ahead.

The film opens with the legend of the ten rings, a mythical set of weapons

that can give the wearer god-like powers.

For centuries, the one holding the rings was a man named Wenwu, who

used its powers for corrupt purposes.

He is seen wiping out a whole army by himself with the power of the rings.

Wenwu later established his own organization, the Ten Rings,

which influenced the course of history, with them taking over

various kingdoms and governments.

In 1996, Wenwu, not yet fully satisfied with his power, seeks

out the village of Ta Lo to find a mythical dragon and acquire its powers.

When he makes it to the village’s entrance, he encounters a woman named

Ying Li, who guards the entrance to Ta Lo.

She and Wenwu engage in a fight, where she displays her own impressive combat skills.

Still, the two immediately begin to fall in love.

The two have children, including a son, Shang-Chi, and Li gives

her son an emerald pendant.

In the present day, Shang-Chi lives in San Francisco and goes by “Shaun”.

He receives a mysterious postcard with an image of a dragon on it.

He works as a valet with his best friend, Katy Chen.

The two are content with their lives, but their friends John and Soo

make them feel like they’re wasting their lives and their potential.

Shang-Chi and Katy continue to hang out on their own and get drunk at a karaoke bar.

The next day, Shang-Chi and Katy board a bus when they are approached by a man

demanding that Shang-Chi give him the pendant he still wears around his neck.

Other goons, led by a hulking one-handed man named Razor Fist, start to attack,

and Shang-Chi’s earlier combat training kicks in, so he proceeds to fight

the men and wipe the floor with them.

Unfortunately, Razor Fist uses his razor to slice the brakes off the bus and kill

the driver, prompting Katy to take the helm while Shang-Chi continues to fight.

They manage to lose the villains, but they have stolen the pendant.

Katy begins to ask Shang-Chi questions about who he really is.

He reveals to her that he has a sister, Xialing, whom he was separated

from after leaving his father.

Shang-Chi shows Katy the postcard he was sent and believes it’s from Xiang.

They board a plane to Macau to find her, where Shang-Chi explains the training

he went through under the Ten Rings.

Still, as he realized that his father wanted him to become a killer,

he chose to abandon his father’s teachings and escaped to America.

In Macau, Shang-Chi and Katy come across an underground

fight club operated by Jon Jon.

They witness Wong battling Emil Blonsky - The Abomination.

Wong beats his opponent by creating a portal that causes Abomination to punch

himself in the face and knock himself out.

Shang-Chi then signs up to go next and must fight Xiang.

She fights her brother until he tells her that their father is coming for them

and the other pendant in her possession.

Xiang is resentful to Shang-Chi for abandoning her after their mother’s death.

When Shang-Chi produces the postcard, Xialing says it

wasn’t her that sent him that.

Soon, Ten Rings assassins, led by Death Dealer, begin to attack the place as

Xialing ditches Shang-Chi and Katy.

Shang-Chi fights the assassins just outside the building and defeats most of

them, but Wenwu soon arrives and takes Shang-Chi, Katy, and Xialing with him.

Everyone arrives at the Ten Rings compound, where Wenwu provides

his children and Katy with dinner.

He wants Shang-Chi to take his place as his successor to lead the Ten

Rings, but Shang-Chi wants nothing to do with his father’s legacy.

Wenwu also mentions the fake Mandarin character from America that falsely

represented him and his organization.

He talks about Li and how everything in his life changed for him after they

met and how lost he felt when she died.

Desperate to bring her back, he learns of a gate in the mountains of Ta Lo

where he believes Li is trapped and must be set free, as he claims he can

hear her voice calling out to him.

Wenwu takes Shang-Chi and Xialing’s pendants and places them in the eyes of

a dragon statue, activating some kind of water map for him to enter Ta Lo.

After Wenwu expresses his plan to invade Ta Lo and burn it to the ground,

Shang-Chi vocally objects, and his father lays him on the ground before

imprisoning him, Katy, and Xiang.

In their captivity, the trio meets Trevor Slattery, the former fake Mandarin who has

since been captured for his impersonation.

Still, his only company is a furry faceless creature he calls Morris.

With their help, the trio finds an escape route leading to the

garage, and they steal Razor Fist’s car to make their way to Ta Lo.

On their path, the forest attempts to “eat” the group as they drive

through it, but they manage to safely make it to Ta Lo.

Among the inhabitants are other mythical beasts like shishi lions.

It is also where Morris originates from, as he is known as a handun.

When confronted by the villagers, the group is met by their leader,

Ying Nan, Li’s sister and therefore the aunt of Shang-Chi and Xiang.

Nan explains to them that they guard the Dark Gate where the

Dweller-in-Darkness lives.

It is a soul-sucking monster whose army previously slaughtered thousands.

Before they could make their way into the outside world, the warriors of Ta Lo

fought back alongside the dragon guardian, the Great Protector, and they helped

imprison the Dweller behind the gates.

The Dweller is manipulating Wenwu into believing that Li’s

voice is calling out to him.

Nan takes Shang-Chi and Xialing to view suits their mother crafted for

them while Katy is trained in archery.

Nan takes Shang-Chi to a location to help hone his fighting skills

and train the way his mother learned how to fight, as she was the only

one who could ever defeat Wenwu.

As Wenwu continues going over his research of Ta Lo, a flashback is shown

where old adversaries of the Ten Rings, the Iron Gang, attacked the compound.

While Li fought them off, she was killed by them.

In his fury, Wenwu took the young Shang-Chi with him and made him witnessed

as he used the ten rings to slaughter the Iron Gang, and Shang-Chi first

witnessed the brutality of his father.

Shang-Chi later confides to Katy that he worries he is no different from

his father and resolves to kill Wenwu to stop him from hurting others.

Soon, Wenwu leads the Ten Rings as they make their way into Ta Lo, and the heroes

and villagers all gather for battle.

As the fight rages on, Shang-Chi confronts Wenwu with a bo staff.

The two fight, with Wenwu punching his son into the ocean.

He proceeds to go and open the Dark Gate, unleashing several soul-sucking

demons, one of which kills Death Dealer and prompts Razor Fist into

agreeing to work with Xialing and Nan.

The demons suck out more souls as fuel to release the Dweller.

While underwater, Shang-Chi encounters the Great Protector, who helps him rise

out and return to finish fighting Wenwu.

Shang-Chi manages to control the rings, but he chooses not to kill

Wenwu to prove he is nothing like him.

Unfortunately, the Dweller is released from its prison.

Wenwu relinquishes the power of the rings to his son just before

the Dweller absorbs his soul.

The monster proceeds to rampage across the village, taking Shang-Chi and Xiang.

When she tells Shang-Chi to let her go so that they won’t both die, he

refuses and continues to hold onto her.

Katy fires an arrow at the Dweller’s throat.

Shang-Chi uses the rings to fire blasts at the Dweller while the

Great Protector gets a few hits in.

Shang-Chi hurls the rings into the Dweller’s chest and lands one final

powerful move to rip the beast to shreds.

The survivors honor their fallen warriors, including Shang-Chi honoring Wenwu.

They light lanterns and send them off across the waters.

Shang-Chi and Katy return home and recap their whole adventure to John and Soo,

who both think the two are mocking them.

Then Wong opens a portal into the bar in front of everyone to invite Shang-Chi

and Katy along for another mission.

The two waste no time and step through the portal.

Mid-Credits Scene: Shang-Chi and Katy meet Bruce Banner and Carol

Danvers - Captain Marvel with Wong.

They discuss that when Shang-Chi used the ten rings, it activated a beacon.

Before they can continue to figure out what it means, Shang-Chi and Katy take

Wong to the karaoke bar where they get drunk and sing “Hotel California”.

Post-Credits Scene: Xialing now appears to be the new leader of the

Ten Rings, with Razor Fist now working under her as the surviving members

are seen continuing their training.

At the same time, she makes new plans for their future.

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