
In 1988, the three Mojin(tomb raider), Hu Bayi, Wang Kaixuan, and Shirley Yang, retires and relocates to New York. While Bayi and Shirley have become romantically involved and Kaixuan feels that the great Mojin deserve more than the financial despair they've faced in the States, the trio are pulled back into a grave-robbing game in Inner Mongolia, China, to explore the reason behind the death of Ding Sitian, who was Bayi and Kaixuan's first love died back in 1969.... (Full plot summary below)
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In 1988, the three Mojin(tomb raider), Hu Bayi, Wang Kaixuan, and Shirley Yang, retires and relocates to New York. While Bayi and Shirley have become romantically involved and Kaixuan feels that the great Mojin deserve more than the financial despair they've faced in the States, the trio are pulled back into a grave-robbing game in Inner Mongolia, China, to explore the reason behind the death of Ding Sitian, who was Bayi and Kaixuan's first love died back in 1969.
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| The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe charismatic performers — who include Angelababy as a woman at the center of a past love triangle with the two male leads — are engaging from start to finish. |
| The Straits Times (Singapore)Boon ChanThe tone can be uneven at times and the plot gets a little too busy, but Mojin does deliver some escapist fun. |
| Screen InternationalJames MarshWhile the sub-par effects make it difficult to become fully immersed in the tomb raiding exploits of the Mojin, the rivalries, romances and camaraderie between the central trio do hold water and help sustain the film’s forward momentum. |
| The New Paper (Singapore)Lisa TwangThink of this as Tomb Raider, Chinese style. |
| Sydney Morning HeraldJake WilsonWuershan's style has an energy and exuberance that pulls together all the disparate elements. |
| The New York TimesDaniel M. GoldWhat starts eerie becomes strictly cartoonish. |
| RogerEbert.comMark DujsikCome for the murky action, and stay for the shudder-inducing feeling of nostalgia for Mao's Cultural Revolution. It's a very odd movie, indeed. |
| VarietyMaggie LeeThough the film lacks the spooky, macabre spirit expected of this subterranean subgenre, Mongolian-Chinese helmer Wuershan (“Painted Skin II: The Resurrection”) applies his outlandish visual panache to evoke an underground world of ethnic antiquity refreshingly distinct from traditional Han-Chinese culture. |
| South China Morning PostEdmund LeeA tomb-raiding adventure film that entertains sporadically with supernatural elements, but bores you to sleep whenever anyone starts talking. |
| Alternative LensJennifer HeatonThis Chinese blockbuster heavily recycles elements from every Western adventure movie under the sun to create a cheap imitation of superior products ... |