Just saw a trailer of Jackie Chan's Chinese New Year 2019 movie in TV - The Knight of Shadows: Between Yin and Yang 神蒲松龄之兰若仙踪. That isn't a Liaozhai story, I'm sure; that is, a story from Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio 聊齋誌異 Liaozhai Zhiyi. In the movie, Jackie plays a demon hunter with the odd name of Pu Songling; odd because it is the actual name of the man who wrote Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio. Jackie's character owns a magic calligraphy brush which renders him powerful and capable of subduing demons. He has a few good unworldly creatures as his sidekicks and the bad ones, he catches them and shut them up in little containers before finally sending them to their doom in a hell-like realm. You may love the movie or hate the movie. Emerging from the theatre, the older members of the family voiced their displeasure of sitting through a meaningless bore; the younger members however loved the movie and your truly, loved some scenes most notably the one where the lady ghost tries to get rid of the demon hunter in a room full of mirrors. That was rather creative and funny.
Rating: 2.9 ⭐
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