Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

[Opens Sept. 3 in theaters.] When their 1,000-year-old villainous Chinese father (Tony Leung), who possesses ancient, magical ten rings that give him strength and power, decides while still mourning to invade the idyllic, mystical forest, dragon-protected homeland of his deceased wife (Fala Chen) in Destin Daniel Cretton's highly entertaining, thrilling, action-packed, fast-paced, humor-dotted, 3D, star-studded (Ben Kingsley, Benedict Wong, Tim Roth, Florian Munteanu, Ronny Chien, Andy Le, and Zach Cherry), 132-minute film based on the Marvel Comics and dominated by stunning choreography and cinematography, his karaoke-loving, martial-arts-trained son (Simu Liu) working as a valet in San Francisco with his longtime sidekick (Awkwafina) and his equally skilled, estranged sister (Meng'er Zhang) in Macau, who both have struggled with loss, use their martial-arts training as children (Jayden Zhang/Arnold Sun and Elodie Fong/Harmonie He) to join forces with villagers (Michelle Yeoh, et al.) to stop their grieving father bent on destruction.
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