Seven years after the apparent death of Chen Zhen, who was shot after discovering who was responsible for his teacher's death in Japanese-occupied Shanghai. A mysterious stranger arrives from overseas and befriends a local mafia boss. Disguising himself as a caped fighter by night, Chen intends to take out everyone involved as well as get his hands on an assassination list prepared by the Japanese.
Set between the British occupation of Hong Kong and the Japanese invasion of China, war hero Chen Zhen, forms a Secret movement to fight the Japanese invasion of China. To that end, he infiltrates the high society and the Triads, hoping to influence them when the time comes. One rainy night, outside of a theater, he spots a black outfit with matching mask. He puts it on and kicks some Japanese ass. After the battle, he becomes the symbol of Japanese resistance and public enemy number 1. Eventually, he realizes that the only way to save China, is to defeat the ruthless Colonel of the Japanese army, who challenges him to a fight at the same dojo where Chen killed years ago.
Chen Zhen is the fucking man.
Return of the First was slick and had brief flashes of awesome but overall, it played more like a drama than an action flick. After the action of the first scene, the movie slows down to build up the characters. The slow pace is killer, the action scenes attempt to make up for it but there are a lot of lulls. If I could rate it based on that opening scene alone, it would score high. Unfortunately, the movie continued and it was all downhill from there. As it went on (and on), I could see why I skipped it.
Out of Ten? 6
Violence? Yes
Explosions? Yes
Nudity? No
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