Uprising - A Pretty Entertaining Martial Arts Movie with A Familiar Plot

Yesterday there was this new South Korean movie released on Netflix which made me interested as it looked promising with some martial arts involved. So even though I was in the middle of another series, I opted to watch this first before finishing that one. OK, let's dive into it then.

Brief Story Line

Story was set in the Joseon period where slavery was still in place and focused on Cheon-yeong (Gang Dong-won - The Plot, Train to Busan: Peninsula etc) who had been serving his master Jong-ryeo (Park Jeong-min - The 8 Show TV series, Dr. Cheon and The Lost Talisman etc) since childhood and became very good friends. When war erupted due to invasion by Japanese army led by one of its General Genshin (Jung Sung-il - Project Wolf Hunting, The Glory TV series etc), the country was in turmoil and King Seon-jo (Cha Seung-won - Believer, The Tyrant TV series etc) had to flee, leaving the people to fend for themselves. 

Babylon - A Quite Interesting but Slightly Dark Take on the Transition of Silent to Sound Films in Hollywood

I said in my previous post that a new movie was released on last Friday but I decided to postpone seeing till weekend since it was > 3 hours long. And after finishing plenty of activities in the whole morning to afternoon, I finally saw this in the evening by myself. I did not encourage my wife to see it with me as I was not sure she would have liked it. So let's get to the movie now.

Brief Story Line

Set in the mid 1920s when silent movies were in their prime in the film industry, Manny (Diego Calva - I Promised You Anarchy, Narcos: Mexico TV series etc) was working as the runaround man for Kinescope studio, Hollywood. During one of the party in the executive's house, Manny met for the first time and was attracted to a woman named Nellie LaRoy (Margot Robbie - Amsterdam, Focus etc) who was thriving to become a major star. After this party, Manny drove home the famous actor Jack Conrad (Brad Pitt - Bullet Train, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood etc) who was drunk and became his trusted aid ever since.