#Halloweenathon2024: ‘The Man of Tai Chi’ Features Keanu Reeves as a Dead-Eyed Serial Killer, and it’s AMAZING
On the second day of Halloween: The Man of Tai Chi
Y’all remember The Watcher? Keanu Reeves’ serial killer horror where he plays a psychopath who stalks and murders dark-haired women? The one where someone faked his signature on a contract and he made the film Instead of fighting it in court? Keanu’s Donaka Mark in The Man of Tai Chi is what that role could have been, if it’d been consensual.
Not only is Reeves absolutely chilling as a dead-eyed serial killer who runs an underground fight and murder club for his own and other wealthy people’s sick pleasure. But this is also his directorial debut, and it’s fabulous.
The plot follows idealistic Tiger Chen (Hu Chen), one of the last practitioners of Tai Chi as a martial art. When confronted with Donaka Mark and the promises of great riches for his fighting skills, Tiger goes through a dark night of the soul as he sells his off piece by piece to a man who feeds on the decay of moral good.
The fight scenes are absolutely epic, with Tiger going up against men two or even three times his size. And seeing Keanu as a full-blown psychopath in his directorial debut is both chilling and awesome.
Wu Lin/5 stars. Highly recommend this criminally underrated martial arts gem.
Welcome back to Zuzu Zombie’s Halloweenathon, a series of microreviews featuring unusual and mostly out-of-the-box horror movie watchlists for the month of October. Browse the entire 2024 collection here, plus past years. Happy Halloween!
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