Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Brutal
- irreverent
- kinetic
- stylized
- action movie night
- martial arts marathon
What critics said
Critics broadly recognized the film's striking period design and energetic genre blend while finding its plotting convoluted.
What sets it apart
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Li Tianran returns to resolve a murder committed five years earlier, making investigation and retaliation the story's central engine.
The film is identified as a spy film and places conspiratorial conflict within 1930s China.
The protagonist is a young swordsman, and the period action is framed as a visually heightened romp.
The film is described as the third installment in Jiang Wen's gangster trilogy following Let the Bullets Fly and Gone With the Bullets.
Films like Hidden Man, and why
Let the Bullets Fly
stylized period crime action, irreverent humor, gangster power struggles, and heightened visual spectacle
Shanghai Triad
Chinese gangster intrigue, charismatic antiheroes, and kinetic period action framed with darkly comic energy
The Grandmaster
martial arts revenge narrative, period Chinese setting, and elegant choreography driven by buried political and criminal conflict
Bodyguards and Assassins
stylized historical action, conspiratorial plotting, and a lone fighter confronting entrenched violence
Movie Details
- Director
- Jiang Wen
- Release Date
- 2018-07-13
- Runtime
- 137 min
- Rating
- 6.7 / 10 (91)
Cast
- Jiang Wen
- Eddie Peng Yu-Yan
- Liao Fan
- Zhou Yun
- Xu Qing
- Ding Jiali
- Andy Friend
- Li Meng
- Shi Hang
- Liu Xiaoning
Common questions
- What is Hidden Man about?
- A returning swordsman navigates 1930s Chinese gangster intrigue to uncover an old murder and reclaim his life through flamboyant revenge.
- What is Hidden Man like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Hidden Man as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Hidden Man violent?
- Yes. Ember rates the violence in Hidden Man as brutal.
- What did critics think of Hidden Man?
- Critics broadly recognized the film's striking period design and energetic genre blend while finding its plotting convoluted.
- Which films are like Hidden Man?
- Films with a similar feel include Let the Bullets Fly, Shanghai Triad, The Grandmaster, and Bodyguards and Assassins.
- How long is Hidden Man?
- Hidden Man runs 137 minutes.
