Eye for an Eye: The Blind Swordsman by Bingjia Yang (2022)
I stumbled across this on Amazon Prime Video, and given it’s relatively short runtime (78 minutes), figured it’d be something nice to fit in before bedtime. I was pleasantly surprised by the film’s rather slow, even contemplative pace, which made for a nice contrast to the action. And the film also has several stark, even stunning images that verge on abstract, so kudos to cinematographers Chi Jia, Wanyi Liu, Xiaofeng Zhao. (Some, however, might find the film’s look a bit too glossy.) Finally, as a fan of ’90s Jet Li films, it was a pleasant surprise to see Miao Xie in the lead role; he previously starred as Li’s son in 1994’s The New Legend of Shaolin and 1995’s My Father is a Hero. Unfortunately, the short runtime does no favors for the film’s clichéd and familiar storyline, which obviously riffs on the Zatoichi films. That, and the fight scenes are often of the hectic, hyper-edited variety, replete with dodgy CGI flames and blood splatters.
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