Three new friends try to rescue humanity from an ancient foe in Yang Lei's Legend of the Naga Pearls, an adventure that borrows freely from the Lucas/Spielberg/Jackson playbooks without straying far from the vibe of contemporary Chinese action-fantasy. It looks better than many of its peers, with only one or two lapses of taste in production design, FX and costumes. (The cutesy CG sidekick of our main hero is the biggest sore thumb.) Diverting but hardly novel enough to win over Stateside viewers outside the circle of hardcore Asian film buffs, it will likely segue quickly from theaters to a...
- 8/25/2017
- by John DeFore
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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