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Highly Overrated But Still Good

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

I watched this movie with no prior knowledge of it, and was immediately sucked into the film. It is a film that is beautiful to look at and has the ability to evoke emotions within the viewer causing them to live the story with the main character. The cinematography was absolutely wonderful, and served to make the film somehow realistic and surreal at the same time. The soundtrack was perfect and each song seemed to compliment the moments on screen, but was almost a character in and of itself. The acting was believable and realistic and the star of the movie "Aicha" really makes the audience connect with her and feel her plight, and the choreography of the fight scenes was wonderful. I was so pleasantly surprised by this movie and it is one that I will absolutely have to recommend to friends.

I hit the couch to eat lunch and turned on Sundance channel and came in at the first third of the movie . . . didn't leave the couch. Good movie. As in the other movie reviews there is no real new story line here, but what caught me was the lighting. Shots were she is with her family are shot in darker lighting and when Semra is in the environment her heart wants to be in (ex. Kung Fu studio) the lighting is much brighter. Simple little things like this and the floating camera (?) make it a good MOVIE and add power to the story and the acting. I don't know if it was intentional, but Semra's "less is more" acting really helped sell the internal struggle she was going through to deal with the chains of Turkish societal and familial expectations. Now I can't wait to see it again from start to finish - and with my 12 year old daughter who just started serious training in sports. Should be required watching for girls in Jr. High.

The performances in this film were good as were the cinematography and fight choreography. Where this film fell down is that it is not original.The film "Girlfight" has almost the same plot: a young girl who has a nasty temper and gets into fights constantly, discovers boxing, much to the displeasure of her father. She learns to box and eventually beats her boyfriend, who is also a boxer.In this film, the girl is of Turkish descent living in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is a Muslim from a conservative family. She learns some Kung Fu in her high school club, but she is too aggressive to stay and instead finds a true Kung Fu school with a real sifu (Master). She disobeys her father and almost ruins her brother's planned marriage while training and the school. She meets a blond non-Muslim boy at the school and is assigned as his training partner. You can guess what happens next, can't you? I'll leave the rest of the plot to you to discover to avoid spoilers.My real beef is that it's not innovative or original just the same story in a different place. I feel that there should have been a more interesting development to avoid the same old trite clichés.

A beautiful and touching movie that deserves a wider viewing than it is likely to get. Semra Turan plays Aicha, a second generation Turkish immigrant, who tries to break the mold. Neither entirely at home with her moderately conservative Muslim family, nor with her liberal Danish friends, Aicha's martial arts experience becomes a fight to find herself and have the strength to allow herself to be who she wants to be in spite of both family and friends.Director Natasha Arthy manages to balance introspection and narrative so that it has depth without becoming ponderous philosophical discourse, and drawing on Xian Gao's choreography skills pays off in spectacular fight sequences. In the end, however, it is Semra Turan's stunning debut performance that gives this movie spirit. Raw charisma and requisite martial arts skills are complimented by heart to make her personal drama believable.Well worth your while.