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While there is an attempt to flesh out two of the three leads by way of afore-mentioned flashback, there’s still far too little to hook on to. The production design by Hao Yi features several cavernous sets bursting with intricately-carved details, but there’s a disappointing monotony to the subterranean chambers that is sorely lacking visual flair. During an extended flashback in which Little Red Book-brandishing, Mao-quoting Red Guard youths fend off zombie WWII-era Japanese soldiers, the film becomes Nationalist Treasure.
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The attempts at comedy are grating, the emotional scenes fall flat and the action sequences are flashy but ultimately unremarkable. Quest movies are by nature straight-forward affairs, but Mojin is pointlessly convoluted to a dizzying extent. Mojin promises lavish spectacle and pulse-pounding action, but instead it is muddled and bloated. This reviewer loves a good old-fashioned adventure flick and counts the Indiana Jones films, especially Last Crusade, as some of his favourite movies ever.
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Don’t ask us how the rights worked out, maybe It’s a Thunderball/ Never Say Never Again-type deal. The novel also spawned an unrelated film called Ghost Blows Out: The Nine-Story Demon Tower, released in September 2015. Mojin – The Lost Legend is based on Zhang Muye’s best-selling fantasy novel Ghost Blows Out the Light, functioning as sort of a sequel rather than a straight adaptation. Deep within long-buried tombs, the Mojin come face-to-face with the past in more ways than one. Their middleman “Big Gold Tooth” (Xia) secures a contract with wealthy CEO/cult-leader Ying Caihong (Liu), who is in search of the mythical Equinox Flower artefact, believing it can grant her immortality. Despite washing their hands of their dangerous exploits, the trio are drawn back into the fray when an incident from Hu and Wang’s days as teenagers in the Red Guards involving the fate of their mutual crush Ding Sitian (Angelababy) comes back to haunt them. The three are the last remaining members of the Mojin Xiaowei, an ancient secret order of treasure hunters. It is 1988 and grave-robbing explorers Hu Bayi (Chen), Wang Kaixuan (Huang) and Shirley Yang (Shu Qi) have retired to New York City. It’s into the dusty, booby-trapped depths we go with our intrepid trio of heroes in this fantasy adventure.