The film draws comparison to another movie based on the Onmyōji mobile game, “The Yin Yang Master”.
Dream of Eternity is adapted from the novel series Onmyōji by Yumemakura Baku.The splendour and CGI effects in his movies are phenomenal and the Bromance elements are tranquil as well as heartfelt! His “Lords: Legends of Ravaging Dynasties” still remains one of my favorite Animation Series. Famous Author turned Director Guo Jing Ming is quite popular for writing and directing storylines related to Fantasy genre.There are three main reasons for the excitement surrounding this film. Fortunately Netflix didn’t backtrack and the film was globally released in its English Dubbed version on 5th February, 2021. The morbid claims resulted in severe backlash and as such there were rumours that Netflix, which had acquired the world-wide distribution rights, may pull the plug on this movie. The anticipation was visibly high and the film’s release courted major controversy (Director Gua Jing Ming was accused of plagiarizing certain scenes from Marvel Universe’s Doctor Strange). But while the acting is competent, the only moving “death” is an animal’s and the only interesting performance is by the villain expressing his character’s feline-feminine side.The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity is predictably the most anticipated Bromance of 2021. Outsiders can dive into this colorful, splashy mayhem for the costumes, critters and set pieces. The rest of us have to sit through two hours of endless “Harry Potter/Lord of the Rings” exposition, a parade of creatures, characters, talismans, spells, old grudges held by dark forces, flashbacks that pointlessly add a backstory, and challenges. Even by origin story standards, it’s a mess. This has a “only for fans of the game” vibe. It doesn’t matter where films based on video games come from, they’re always most fascinating to players of the game –this fight getting you to that “level,” and so on. “I used to get my demonic goods from Yanyan Le,” is a line George Lucas could have concocted to show a very old “universe” where business is business.
So for now, I think we’re done.”Ī lot more could be done with that, but maybe the translation is leaving that light touch out. The occasional flash of humor helps lighten this smorgasbord of sword-and-sorcery. That is your destiny!” (in Mandarin with subtitles, or dubbed into English). “You will help me return to the mortal world.
The dialogue is redolent of every other fantasy tale, East or West. There are fights with the Red Ghost and Raven Hound Twins, this startling, black-hooded four-armed warrior with a porcelain face mask turns out to be ferrets standing on each other’s shoulders inside a cloak, and the Snow Queen ( Cici Wang) flings ice darts and fights dirty. But as they used to be a couple, maybe there’s more going on there.īoya is disgraced for losing that stone, and to recover it and arrest Qinming he teams with the first fighting pixie ( Shen Yue) to tell him he’s “full of s–t!” Chief Baini ( Xun Zhou) of The Defenders considers Qinming a traitor. The emperor of the demon realm wants the Scale Stone, badsass Qinming ( Kun Chen) and his ferret minions steal it from Captain Boya ( Chuxiao Qu) of the Imperial Guards. I think that maybe the dismembered hand monster is my favorite, although the cuddly Red Ghost, sort of Hellboy as Sumo Wrestler, is a close second. There’s a lot to take in - flying martial artists, spectacular brawls, “Scale Stones” and sigils, fantastic beasts, CGI demons in the Demon Realm and a villain with a transgender edge.
Its sequel has already come out (“Dream of Eternity”) and is on Netflix, too. It doesn’t matter that it’s a violent, hilariously wearying and cluttered collection of tropes, character “types” and action beats. “The Yinyang Master” is a fantastical, fanciful new sword-and-sorcery franchise from China.