Master Ma is walking down the street, suddenly he sees the some words hiding between the green grass. He closes his eyes and the duel with different martial arts masters begins. So many big names, but in the end it's just a martial arts fan business magnet's wet dream. No wonder the martial arts former & new gen stars gathered here for hefty paycheck. Story is written by a 7years old in a school project & he got an C+. Fight sequences are choppy & heavily edited to hide the flaws of Mr. Ma. Neither an action nor a comedy, this is a close to a hot mess. Only redeeming thing is the legends. It's fun to see so many great actors & fighters came together to work in one movie. I wish, Mr. Ma would spend some of the budget to hire a writer. Maybe then this garbage wouldn't look like a Self obsessed & deluded rich martial arts fan's dump. Specially when he goes to a brothel or something & all the girls saying to each other how handsome he is! That part is cringe worthy. Maybe I'd make a movie with all these stars if I had the money, but my movie would have a story or massage & definitely wouldn't be so shamelessly self promoting.<br/><br/>Mr. Ma, you have to start paying the people to write good reviews for your movie. (knock me with your offer to change mine ;) haha) "Gong shou dao" or "Guardians of Martial Arts" is a new Chinese Mandarin-language movie from this year (2017) that is not even a month old. It runs for 23 minutes only and was written and directed by prolific actor Zhang Wen. The main character is played by Jack Ma, but the fact that he is called Master Ma says a lot about the film already. It is definitely on the pretentious side and not just a bit. Those who don't know: Ma is a super rich investor from China and no surprise that with all his money he got several big names to show up in here, such as Jet Li, Manny Pacquiao and some others that may sound more familiar to people with a bigger interest in martial arts (films) than myself. Some more successful athletes in here except Manny it seems. No surprise Ma managed to get them in as he could virtually pay every price they'd ask for. Anyway, we have Ma here in the center of the story showing us his skills and beating up the bad guys most of the time. I read that Ma really has an affiliation with martial arts, so it is even more disappointing how weak this one turned out and it will encourage the critics saying that the world of film (at least as an actor) is nothing for the financial genius. They may be right. This one here gets a thumbs-down from me and I suggest you skip it.
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