With a scattershot approach to genre and pacing, marginally charismatic leads, and a confused and meandering script, Ghostly Tribe is the embodiment of the overblown summer spectacle’s worst qualities, distinguishable from its American counterparts mostly in that dances to a Communist drumbeat rather than a Capitalist one. Like many of its American contemporaries, Ghostly Tribe is big, loud, colorful and packed with action, effects, and drama, but also like many recent American blockbusters, it’s kind of a mess. Take Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe, a 2015 Chinese blockbuster, for example. It’s easy to think of big, splashy, ultimately vapid blockbusters as a quintessentially American product, a national export to rival Coca-Cola or military interventions, but while Hollywood may have invented and perfected (for various definitions of “perfect”) the blockbuster model, many countries have attempted to get in on the game.
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