![]() ![]() Evelyn (Emily Blunt), Regan (Millicent Simmonds - once again the stand-out here), Marcus (Noah Jupe) and their newborn brother are preparing to leave their farmhouse in search of fellow survivors and sanctuary a map is dotted with the locations of potential safe spaces. (Just ask Zack Snyder.) After the rush of this Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, we’re whisked back to the present, a.k.a. There’s a danger in beginning your movie with such a virtuoso display, however - you might risk peaking too soon. ![]() See it in a room with dozens of people shrieking, and the sequence is a concentrated dose of joyful delirium. Part II‘s kickoff gives you thrills-spills-chills mayhem that would play well in any space. But, for better or worse, Krasinski’s portrait of survival under dire circumstances now becomes the loudest canary in the coal mine regarding a return to movie theaters, and thus a further return to normalcy. An opening salvo of everyday life interrupted by an out-of-nowhere threat, which then escalates quickly into emergency measures and confusion, plays slightly differently near the midpoint of 2021. Like a countless other films big and small, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings was set to be released last year before a real-life nightmare overtook the fictional ones we consider escapism. Speaking of which: It’s this early, standalone mash-up of Norman Rockwell’s Americana and straight-outta-Heinlein cosmic carnage that reminds you why we’ve been so anxious to return to those shared spaces in the dark. ![]()
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