OK, the fight scenes were pretty cool for the most part but everything else about this was terrible. Reeves acting (if you want to call it that) is the worst.

I finally got around to watching "Man of Tai Chi", albeit three years after it was initially released. And I had some level of expectation to it, I must admit. But I am sad to say that the movie didn't live up to my expectations in the least way.This marks the most laughable and generic acting performance of Keanu Reeves so far. I have never seen him more out of touch with a movie or seen him seem more distant than he did here. Sure his body was there physically, but his mind was elsewhere. And it was reflected in both his performance, but also in the way that he delivered his dialogue.The story in "Man of Tai Chi" was quite simplistic, and actually wasn't more than just a shallow story spiced up by martial arts. The story in this movie was just laughable and stupid. And it didn't really help the movie in any way that the dialogue throughout the movie was not impressive.I must say that I was initially a bit excited about seeing Karen Mok, Simon Yam, Iko Uwais, Tiger Hu Chen and Keanu Reeves together in a martial arts movie. But it was a short lived excitement, because "Man of Tai Chi" was an under mediocre experience, to be bluntly honest.While we are on the cast talents, then it was really Karen Mok who was carrying the bigger part of the movie, despite not really being the main character. Tiger Chen did alright, but he was just restrained by having nothing worthwhile of a script to work with, and while his martial arts was impressive, it can only do so little to salvage the movie. It was a shame that Simon Yam only had such a small role in the movie, because he is a great actor. Iko Uwais was also deprived of a proper chance to showcase his martial arts as his screen time was limited as well. And on a side note, then it was also a nice treat to see Sam Lee in the movie, despite only having a small role. And as I mentioned above then Keanu Reeves was nowhere near his usual performance level in "Man of Tai Chi".The martial arts in the movie was quite good, and there was a lot of it. Actually it felt like the movie was crammed with excessive martial arts scenes to make up for the lack of a plausible and entertaining storyline. And while it is enjoyable to watch martial arts, a movie should also have a proper storyline."Man of Tai Chi" was a disappointment, and it manages to score a less than mediocre rating of four out of ten stars from me, solely because of the martial arts and the impressive cast. If you enjoy martial arts movies, then there are far, far better choices available.

Funny how lots of reviews have high scores and they say the fight scenes were great. Honestly, the fight scenes were so incredibly mediocre and slow I didn't see anything great about it. If you compare this to movies like The Raid, Ong Bak, Ip Man etc. You would be thinking the same as I do and I bet you those people didn't see the movies listed above and lots of other good fight movies.Speaking of the Raid, what a disgrace they didn't show more of Iko Uwais. Such a waste to let one of the best martial artist of today, almost do nothing in a fighting movie. Anyway, I give this movie a 6/10.

This movie both fails western and eastern quality standards. The plot just makes no sense. It looks like a bulwark of redundant pictures, which were fabricated to deliver a message we have already got from a lot of other genre defining movies (e.g. Bruce Lees movies). Sry, Keanu you just can't mess with those. Keanu Reeves acting seems bloodless. The police is boring. The main actor is good, but his character is just as stupid as the plot. This kind of trash should not get multimillion dollar funding, it should be done with a couple of thousand dollars. What a waste. There were a lot of Kungfu movies in the 70ies that lived from the passion and the new ideas of the crew and the actors. This one is scripted from beginning to end and there is just no passion of spontaneity in there.