This backstory comes for Shang-Chi, known as an American adult as Shaun, when he rides the bus with his friend Katy (Awkwafina) up and down the hills of San Francisco. The film is a mega-budget ballet, one that glides and floats over an abyss of grief. Cretton, who previously directed “ Short Term 12,” an Avengers-like showcase of indie rising talent ( Brie Larson, LaKeith Stanfield, Rami Malek, etc.) keeps those visceral, personal stakes in this script (by himself, Dave Callaham, and Andrew Lanham), so that the superhero context is a bonus to the drama. But after Shang-Chi’s mother died, a newly monstrous Wenwu tried to mature his son by making him a killer, causing the young boy to leave behind his sister Xialing ( Meng'er Zhang) and Wenwu. When Wenwu found love with Jiang Li ( Fala Chen), there was peace. The dysfunctional family dynamics are even more important than the ten rings that grant such immense power to Shang Chi’s power-hungry father Wenwu, who has lived for 1,000 years and created a society called the Ten Rings that has destroyed kingdoms and swayed the events all over the world. Simu Liu stars as Shang-Chi, a key piece to a broken family that has a history of infighting.
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