The Knight of Shadows: Between Yin and Yang - A Jackie Chan's Fantasy Movie

I was not aware of this movie existence till a day before Chinese New Year when I saw its poster in the "coming soon" section. As it premiered on the holiday itself, my wife and I were unable to see it due to our tradition of reuniting with our families the whole day. Anyway, we did see it on its second day, which was last night. So let's get on with the movie now.

Brief Story Line

Pu Songling (Jackie Chan - The Foreigner, Kungfu Yoga etc) was a demon/monster hunter who lived near Pi Huan city and befriended with some of the demons/monsters he caught previously. Meanwhile in the city, an assistant to the local sheriff named Yan Fei (Austin Lin - At Cafe 6 etc) was investigating petty theft cases when he bumped into Songling and immediately decided to become his apprentice, despite the reluctance of Songling. 

SKIPTRACE - Jackie Chan's Latest Buddy Cop Comedy

As I indicated in my earlier post, I was having a rather wild movie marathon with 3 films in a day with my wife. What I am about to write would be the second movie of the day. We almost could not make it to this one due to so many people flocking to the cinemas to watch movies, making the queue very long. I guess with 5 new movies since last week to this week, there were so many options for people to watch any kind of movie they want. Anyway, with less than 5 minutes to the start of the movie, we finally managed to buy the tickets for this one which started at 5.05 PM.

Brief Story Line

Movie began with the scene of police detective Bennie Chan (Jackie Chan - no introduction required) unable to help his partner Yung who was strapped to a bomb with less than a minute before detonation. He was able to pass his watch to Bennie and asked him to take care of his daughter Samantha before throwing himself to the water where the bomb exploded. Feeling devastated, Bennie continued to try capturing "Matador" the villain responsible for his partner's death for the next 9 years. He suspected that Matador was actually a powerful and very rich person, Victor Wong (Winston Chao - The Wedding Banquet). With the assistance of 2 more junior detectives, Bennie were trying to capture Matador's right hand man, Handsome Willie (Korean star Yeon Jung-Hoon). The operation went haywire and Bennie was instructed by his captain Tang (Hong Kong star Michael Wong) to take personal leave for 1 month.