
Movies that feel likeShaolin (2011)
If you loved Shaolin, the closest films we have are Once Upon a Time in China (1991), The Rebel (2007) and Ip Man: The Final Fight (2013). All three share Shaolin's kinetic and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Fist of Legend (1994).
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If Shaolin hit the spot, these will too

The same two preoccupations: martial arts, and kung fu
The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

Kinetic where it counts, contemplative underneath

Kinetic action, and it commits to that

One thread runs through both: martial arts
The difference: Reviewed even better

Common ground: kung fu
The difference: Leans harder into history than Shaolin does

Benny Chan working the same nerve twice
The difference: Sits closer to thriller than Shaolin does

Both are Benny Chan's work, and they rhyme
The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than Shaolin does




Drama built on stillness, twice over

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases
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