Right, well I haven't exactly watched a whole lot of Vietnamese martial arts movies, but I have to say that "Dinh Mu Suong" (aka "The Foggy Mountain") wasn't exactly a crowning achievement in Vietnamese action cinema.
So what went wrong here? Well, for starters, the script and storyline. It was essentially just a boring old vengeance movie. You know, the main character's loved one is brutally murdered, and the main character sets out to seek vengeance upon the main villain. Yeah, well, it does work out fair enough, but it was just a bit too over-used in other movies and generic.
And then there was the fact that the character gallery was about as appealing as watching grass grow. Sure, I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in "Dinh Mu Suong", but I wasn't impressed with what I saw. The actors and actresses had next to nothing to work with in terms of a proper script or even remotely interesting characters. The main bad guy was anything but coming off on the screen as a proper villain.
What did work for "Dinh Mu Suong" was the martial arts. There were some adequate enough fight scenes throughout the 86 minutes that the movie ran for. However, it just simply wasn't enough to make up for the shortcomings of a generic script and downright bad character gallery.
If you enjoy martial arts movies, then I wouldn't suggest you waste your time on "Dinh Mu Suong".
My rating of directors Phan Anh and Ken Dinh's 2020 movie "Dinh Mu Suong" lands on a three out of ten stars.
