Its a pound for pound martial arts movie for action flick aficionados, too much acting or show of emotions would've made it too soft for me or pretentious. Though the acting might slightly be bland for the most part (all right then, all through out except for Karen Mok who i adore), but then again you have to admit though it's not exactly Shakespeare we're watching here. Man of Tai Chi may not be one of the best martial arts movie made, but i would say, its a good first attempt at directing by one of my more favored actor and an all-around good human being, Keannu Reeves. Reviewed by alde_benjie 8 / 10 Slow burning but satisfying first try If he somehow reads this, or someone who knows him does - don't change a thing with your fight direction. He still need to work a bit on his dramatic direction but he has fight scenes down pat. If you choreograph the fights well enough the camera does not need to be moving fast, in fact it could sit in one place and not move at all and the fight is still impressive. Essentially he allowed the impressiveness of the moves and styles themselves to shine through. On the contrary in Man of Tai Chi Reeves keeps the camera stationary, or only slowly panning in the fight scenes, he also used a lot fewer quick-camera cuts. He used the camera very well in every single fight scene, none of the shaky-cam stuff we see in most action and kung-fu movies today - where the speed of the camera makes the pacing of the fight.
Once you see this movie, you can tell just how much of a kung-fu film nut he actually is. I have heard from him in many interviews how he is a 'kung-fu film nut' but you can never be sure if actors are serious in interview or not. I liked what I saw in the trailer, but was still not sure what Keanu Reeves would do as a director. Reviewed by sean-cowan1 8 / 10 Excellent directorial début by Reeves
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