PHENOMENALITY: *naturalistic*
MYTHICITY: *poor*
FRYEAN MYTHOS: *adventure*
CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTION: *sociological*
I started watching this 2013 film because the streaming service on which the movie appeared mislabeled it as a 1980s Gordon Liu flick with a similar title. From what I can tell, the main character is played by one Ye Jianwei, and WARRIOR appears to be shot on video on just a few sets, and subtitled to boot.
Feng (Jianwei) is a young man who seeks to avenge his murdered sister, so he takes refuge in a Shaolin Temple, hoping to master enough skills to kill the murderer. Trouble is, the villain is a highly placed general, and he sends his soldiers to the temple to capture Feng. What results is a lot of fights punctuated by Feng getting captured or freed, the latter accomplished by a young monk his own age. The fights are competent but nothing special.
The one potential metaphenomenal element of WARRIOR is that the general is a nut with a cannibal fetish, and he not only killed Feng's sister, he cooked her and ate part of her, while feeding other parts of her roasted body to some of his officers for a prank. But the movie doesn't evoke any dread in the villain's fetish, so the bizarre crime of WARRIOR is merely naturalistic.
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