Shang-Chi and the LOTTR: A better-than-expected origin story

When the film was announced and as the trailers began to drop, I wasn’t exactly counting down the days to the release of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.

Call me naive or uninformed (cuz I probably am), but I felt like this was going to be a standard action thriller with your generic action thriller CGI battle ending for a superhero without any powers…