Water Margin Heroes: Chai Jin (2012)

Down--to-earth portrayal of folklore story

The two children at the start of the movie captured my interest and I continued to watch due to the down-to-earth production that had some very nice sets and costuming, without the extravagant embellishments of many other productions. Mostly unknown actors, some a bit wooden, but reasonable work and an engaging story centred on greed versus idealism. Real cinema aficionados will probably find this movie uninteresting, but I enjoyed it for not being pretentious and having few of the repetitive tropes in so many wuxias.