Ten Rings, 25 Marvel films, $257 million dollars gross: Shang-Chi has faced some troubling delays and obstacles due to the coronavirus and cinema closures around Australia. But you can still catch this blockbuster MCU in select cinemas around Australia.
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is the 25th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, starring Simu Liu as the titular martial arts hero. It’s currently screening in select cinemas in Tasmania, Queensland, Western Australia, regional Victoria and New South Wales, and the Northern Territory. You can use our handy session times finder to see if there’s a safe screening near you.
Whenever the film gets confirmed for digital release, we’ll let you know.
Very Handsome Man Tony Leung stars as Shang-Chi’s estranged father and complex Marvel villain Xu Wenwu—it’s a character that has been comedically referenced before in Iron Man 3, with Ben Kingsley returning here as Wenwu’s imposter.
Despite other necessary links and callbacks to the existing Marvel canon, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings looks to be its own kind of adventure, with homages to kickarse Asian action cinema making it stand out from the pack.
Check out the trailer below for some glimpses of director Destin Daniel Cretton’s combat scenes, both on San Fran public transit and the more fantastical mythic village of Ta Lo.
In his round-up of September’s most exciting new cinematic releases, David Michael Brown showed some excitement for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, pointing out its promising blend of old and new: “Marvel’s tried-and-trusted brand of spandex-busting spectacle combined with martial arts mayhem is definitely on the cards.”
You’ll have to judge the melee for yourself, provided you can catch Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings in an un-locked-down cinema near you.
