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By Soren Andersen (496) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 17 Oct 2012

Zero is the first part of a trilogy. Part two, titled Tai Chi Hero, is due in January. The legend is off to a promising start…

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By Linda Barnard (586) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 17 Oct 2012

Exhausting to watch, Tai Chi Zero is all flash and little substance…

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By Soren Anderson (264) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 17 Oct 2012

Zero is the first part of a trilogy. Part two, titled Tai Chi Hero, is due in January. The legend is off to a promising start…

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By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Oct 2012

Essentially a live-action anime, it sweats rivulets of Tarantino-era digital anxiety from all pores--every kick, punch, pan, and zoom exaggerated…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 17 Oct 2012

Splashy but ultimately an empty bauble...By the halfway point you'll likely be more exhausted than exhilarated…

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By Mark Jenkins (515) for NPR (1,713) on 17 Oct 2012

The dialogue is merely functional, and not always delivered convincingly…

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By Daniel Eagan (552) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 17 Oct 2012

Hyped as a steampunk kung fu movie that revolutionizes the genre, Tai Chi Zero spends most of its time spinning its wheels…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 17 Oct 2012

All this manic invention is great fun for a while, until Tai Chi Zero falls apart on the rocks of the eternal verities: story, acting, direction…

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By Cary Darling (452) for Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com (553) on 17 Oct 2012

The cross-cultural, steampunk, martial arts/comic-book Sino-Anglo mash-up...[is]visually entertaining…

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By Oliver Lyttelton (141) for The Playlist (3,871) on 17 Oct 2012

It won't linger in the mind longer than it takes for the credits to roll, but it's a lot of fun while it lasts, and we're genuinely looking…

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By Tirdad Derakhshani (358) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 17 Oct 2012

Tai Chi Zero, the first film in a planned trilogy, will leave hard-core fight enthusiasts wanting. But it's a droll, pleasant diversion all the same…

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By Rachel Saltz (165) for The New York Times (9,847) on 17 Oct 2012

Fast and mostly fun, the movie also seems compulsively too much, throwing everything it can think of at you, lest it fail to entertain…

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By Travis H (484) on 17 Oct 2012

Steampunk kung fu flick combining elements of Kung Fu Hustle and Scott Pilgram. Not bad....part 2 should be better…

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By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Oct 2012

Give some points to a genre flick whose style mash-up reflects uneasy relations between Asia and the West just as its fracas-intensive plot…

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By Matt Singer (625) for Time Out (7,510) on 15 Oct 2012

If director Stephen Fung's frenetic visual style is the Red Bull in this cinematic cocktail, then the dozy plotting is the vodka - leaving…

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By Wang M (7) on 09 Oct 2012

Cute and full of Tai Chi action, some parts are a bit odd, felt like the movie ending was a marketing ploy to see Part 2…

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By Josh K (585) on 05 Oct 2012

Over the years, the Chinese martial arts epic has been reinvented in countless ways…

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By Frank F (165) on 30 Sep 2012

Well, it's a strange movie…

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By Jordan R (884) on 28 Sep 2012

This movie was so good that I was actually angry when it ended…

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By Noel Murray (1,901) for AV Club (2,778) on 26 Sep 2012

The story's fundamentals remain solid, and the battle between the village of kung-fu experts and an army of 19th century technophiles is so…

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