Sent north to repel the invading forces, treachery will see her forces decimated and friends die before her eyes. The film stays fairly true to the original: Mulan takes her sickly fathers place in the war, trains hard, winning the respect of her peers and the love of her country, but expands and deepens the plot into a grand, violent and at times touching tale on duty and the horrors of war.Īs she proves herself on the battlefield, all the while concealing her gender, she moves up the army’s ranks and into the high esteem of battalion sub-commander Wen Tai (Chen Kun). Gone are the sing-a-longs and talking dragon of the 1998 Disney classic, replaced with a new militaristic focus that takes us through Hua Mulan’s (Zhao Wei) rise through army ranks as she defends her homeland against the invading Ruonan forces.
What I love most about Australian free to air multicultural broadcaster SBS, asides from the high likelihood of seeing boobs, is its amazing range of offerings, one of which is 2009’s Mulan: Rise of a Warrior (also known as Mulan: Warrior Princess).
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