The Brothers Sun

Matt Roush says...

“Don’t tell Mom.” This impulse between two mismatched brothers fuels a comedic martial-arts thriller starring Everything Everywhere All at Once Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh as matriarch Eileen Sun, who hoped she’d put her triad family’s intrigues behind her when she left Taipei for Los Angeles years ago with younger son Bruce. Mayhem makes an unwelcome reappearance in the Sun household when elder son and legendary assassin Charles (Justin Chien) shows up to protect his family after his father is shot by a rival triad. Charles is steely and a formidable fighter, everything his younger brother Bruce (Sam Song Li) is not. This good-natured slacker would rather just study improv, but now he’s going to have to get real to survive attacks from relentless ninjas, while Mom gets to work on body disposal. Bruce knows her secret weapon, warning the prodigal son, “She will absolutely break you with passive aggressiveness.”

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