Martial arts cinema is one of the few genres where greatness hits before explanation does. It’s like Netflix’s One Piece Season 2 — you see Zoro going bonkers by killing a 100 men right as the season kicks off. That’s a chunk of martial arts in a fantasy show. It’s the same in movies. You feel it in the body first. In the stance, the pause, the read of distance, the second a fight stops being action and becomes expression. A kick can be rage. A block can be grief. A stance can be philosophy.