The Unity Of Heroes 2018 Screenplay by Yuhao Gao, Zhenyi Li, Xinyao Niu and Ning Yang, directed by Zenzhao Lin.
Vincent Zhao is legendary martial arts master Wong Fei Hong. He runs a school and has medical knowledge. He believes in the old ways and isn't too accepting of the foreigners that are moving into his country. Turns out he's right, the main villain is the head of a foreign hospital that has just opened it's door. Their main goal is to help with the opium addiction problem. What's really going on is Dr Vlad has created a super opium that gives the used extras strength and rage. It's side effects are insanity and death. He wants to use it to turn the Chinese into powerful men and he doesn't care how many he has to kill to do it.
There's an added subplot about the arrival of a rival martial arts school in town. There's some tension after an encounter by the more hotheaded of the two school's students. It gets pumped up to 11 when the rival's students start attacking with the aid of the super opium. Toss in a couple of pretty gals and the formula is pretty much mixed. There's plenty of fancy wire work and martial arts action, a good villain, a good hero. It's kind of familiar but I liked the characters pretty much. I gave it a 6 at the IMDb, it only scores a 5.2 but it's a bit better than that. It only has 361 votes. Someone was nice enough to pass along a DVD, I can watch it again someday.
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