![]() The villains here are agents for a multinational mining corporation that doubles as a front for a religious cult led by the company's president (Liu Xiao Qing), who wants the Equinox Flower to save the world from an unspecified disaster. ![]() The company enlists Wang to find the tomb, located somewhere in Inner Mongolia, and he's joined by obnoxious comic relief in the form of Grill ( Xia Yu), an antiques hustler who constantly whines and moans. Later, Hu and Shirley arrive to aid their comrade. The movie's adventure beats are familiar before becoming chaotic, and director Wuershan and cinematographer Jake Pollock don't do the sequences any favors with the movie's sickly blue-gray color palette. Scenes of potential tension, such as the group navigating a path of hanging bridges connecting pillars of stone, quickly turn to ones of much destruction, featuring unimpressive visual effects (aspect ratio shifts during these sequences let us know Wuershan prizes spectacle over coherence). A few fight scenes with zombies are equally frantic and unintelligible.īy the climax, though, it has become clear that the movie's primary intentions rest with those flashbacks and what the story within them represents on a political level. "Mojin: The Lost Legend" is equal parts shabby and discomforting.In 1988, the three Mojin(tomb raider), Hu Bayi, Wang Kaixuan, and Shirley Yang, retires and relocates to New York.
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