It’s a wonderful touch of taking the traditional “Han vs.
#CONDOR MOVIE SERIES#
In this case, the basic story is culled from Jin Yong’s Condor Heroes series of wuxia pulps, and concerns a secret Incan manual, suppressed by the Spanish, of physical combat that allows the student to move in accordance with nature and gain the powerful and deadly Condor technique. Think how Kill Bill is set in roughly our world but Uma Thurman learns kung fu from the bad guy in Clan of the White Lotus, or everything in The Last Dragon. The Fist of the Condor is in a very exclusive subgenre of martial arts pictures which do not just pay homage to the movies of the “kung fu boom” of the early 70’s but actually transpose their world into some version of our own. Special note: the Staten Island Alamo DraftHouse which is a cathedral to kung fu movies is having a special screening on the 4th with the star and that would be worth attending if you’re in the Northeast corridor and you love martial arts films. It was received with wild enthusiasm on the festival circuit, was picked up by our old friends at Well Go USA and arrived in theaters on April 4th and on their Hi-Yah streaming service on the 7th. The Fist of the Condor is a 2023 Chilean martial arts film directed by Ernesto Diaz Espinoza ( Kiltro, Redeemer) and starring martial arts phenom Marko Zaror ( John Wick Chapter 4) in their third collaboration.
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