1.5/5 stars
Inexternal is a Hong Kong martial arts fantasy that hits all the cheesy beats of those pulpy old-school kung fu extravaganzas of a bygone era – only to fall desperately short when it comes to the fighting.
If its psychedelic animated pre-title sequence raises reasonable expectations that viewers are in for some zany entertainment usually reserved for the midnight crowds, the movie proceeds slowly but surely to dash our hopes with its astonishingly clumsy storytelling.
In his hallucinatory state, Chet finds himself wandering alone in a dark fantastical world. There he meets the martial arts master Sifu Turtle (Dave Lam Ching) and his granddaughter Cloud (Macy Ma Sihui), who are hiding from Dragon (Louis Cheung Kai-chung), a powermonger in this underworld.
