The Wandering Earth Looks Pretty But Its Characters Are Painfully Dull

Over the course of the 2010s, the already expansive Chinese film industry has grown substantially, particularly in terms of box office receipts. Monster Hunt, The Mermaid, Wolf Warrior II, all of these Chinese blockbusters have amassed the type of gargantuan box office sums normally seen only by the North American grosses of James Cameron and Star Wars movies. The newest Chinese blockbuster to procure this level of massive box office success is The Wandering Earth, which currently stands as the biggest movie of 2019 at the worldwide box office. A mash-up of Mortal Engines, The Day After Tomorrow and 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Wandering Earth is far more tedious than any combination of those three films should ever be.

Wolf Warrior II Improves On The Action Of Its Predecessor But Still Remains Too Generic

For my American readers, it's likely you haven't even heard of Wolf Warrior II, but if you're a resident of China, well, the odds are good you're very much acquainted with this motion picture due to the massive box office success it's experienced in China. Breaking box office records left and right in its home country of China, Wolf Warrior II has become the biggest movie of all-time in China and has amassed the second largest box office sum ever accumulated by one movie in one country, only behind the $936 million grossed by Star Wars: The Force Awakens in the U.S. in 2015. Already one of the ten biggest movies of the year at the worldwide box office, Wolf Warriors II is a phenomenon.

Wolf Warriors Comes Off Like The Chinese Equivalent To A Peter Berg Movie

Currently, the big Chinese box office juggernaut is Wolf Warriors 2, an action motion picture that just overtook Stephen Chow's The Mermaid to become the biggest movie of all-time in the country. It's nowhere near done with its massive box office run either and it looks like it'll likely crack $750 million at the Chinese box office, a massively impressive sum. You might be wondering if the box office performance of the first Wolf Warriors was big enough to serve as, with the power of retrospect, some kind of harbinger of the its successor huge success, but in fact, the first Wolf Warriors made a solid but not humongous $80.9 million that made it the 27th biggest movie of China.