Lung Kim-fei is disfigured and abandoned by his female junior disciple before running into an ambush sprung by her husband Auyeung Ho. The mythical condor of Wicked God of Fiery Cloud, Ku Hon-wan, flies the man in distress to safety. The master imparts his adopted son the skill of the Buddha’s Palm. A vicious duel six decades ago with Suen Bik-ling, dubbed the Capricious Flying Ring, left both challengers blind. To pay his debt of gratitude, Lung sets out to obtain the cure—treasure of the golden dragon—and wrestles to save Suen’s granddaughters Kau Yuk-wah and Yuk-kuen who come under the attack of a unicorn while seeking the cure.
Ling Wan
Director
Walter Tso Tat-Wah
Lung Kim-fei
Kwan Hoi-San
Lu Yu
Yu So-Chau
Shuangfei Fairy Qiu Yuhua
Patricia Lam Fung
Shuangfei Fairy Qiu Yujuan
Yung Yuk-Yi
Wuding Flying Ring Sun Biling
Ko Lo-Chuen
Bi Gu, leader of the Changli Sect
Siu Chung-Kwan
Ouyang Hao, the White-Clad Ice Heart
Lok Gung
Qiu Chong, owner of Yanxia Mountain Villa
Chan Siu-Pang
Golden-eyed Eagle
Lee Sau-Kei
Liu Huaxuan, owner of Liu Family Manor
Alice Fung So-Bor
Golden Hair and Red Silk Willow Oriole
Though often underwhelming as a whole, Nevertheless is worth the watch because of the relationship between Sol and Jiwan. It is a stunning, refreshing take on the friends to lovers trope that LGBTQ media has been missing.
Overall, Altered Carbon: Resleeved is pretty “meh.” It’s cool and all that it takes a different approach from the TV show to make it animated rather than live action, but it doesn’t help that the animation looks like something from a video game.
"WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO SACRIFICE?!!!!" "EVERYTHING!!!!!" This is but one of a multitude of highly emphatic questions, and subsequent answers, being asked in the newest feature film from one of the current masters of horror, Jordan Peele ("Get Out", "Us" and "Nope"). I must give Peele credit in that he continues to push the boundaries of specific genres and their associated tropes in order to provide what ends up amounting to subtly then jarringly intense, yet still character and story-driven, cinema that speaks more to indie stylings than mainstream.
A sweet slice-of-life anime that visualizes all the ways we creatively hide our vulnerabilities from the world.
Despite everything it was capable of, all of these poor choices strung together amount to nothing more than a counter-productive film.
Emily Henry’s adaptation reaches romance movie standards, but not romance reader standards.