Weekend Film Reviews
Let the Bullets Fly; Being Flynn
Joe Morgenstern on Jiang Wen's Chinese action adventure, Let the Bullets Fly, and Paul Weitz's Being Flynn.
Let the Bullets Fly, Jiang Wen's action adventure is wonderfully funny and visually spectacular, and the top grossing Chinese feature in the history of China's movie business.
A line of dialogue may help explain Morgenstren's peculiar experience with Being Blynn. "All my life," says Nick Flynn, "My Father has been manifest as an absence."
Banner image: Chow Yun-Fat, Jiang Wen, and Ge You in a scene from Jiang Wen's Let the Bullets Fly. Photo courtesy of Well Go USA/Variance Films