Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms (2023)

CinemaSerf

7.0

Oct 21, 2023

As with any film that's the first in a trilogy, this spends just a little too long setting out who's who but once it does, this develops into an enjoyable fantasy adventure film that brings a wonderfully vibrant myriad of Chinese mythological and human characters to life. Ancient rivalries and battles between humanity, the deities and some marvellously created mystical beasts - especially the dragons - form the basis of the story set some three millennia ago. Personally, I tended to the side of the immortals - and there's even the slightest hint of a bromance for one of them - as the "Demon Fo…

This was quite fun! "The Investiture of the Gods, also known by its Chinese names Fengshen Yanyi and Fengshen Bang, is a 16th-century Chinese novel and one of the major vernacular Chinese works in the gods and demons genre written during the Ming dynasty." Yes please, give me more! This is the second time this year I'm being treated with the mother goddess Nuwa in media, and being mixed Chinese and only recently learning this part of Chinese mythology, I am happy for it! It's a long movie, so strap in. I don't complain about movie length unless it's a snore and this isn't. The CGI isn…