Shang-Chi Is Still One of the Best MCU Movies Ever Made — and the Cure for Marvel Fatigue

It’s wild how we got Shang-Chi in the MCU before the X-Men and Fantastic Four. But after watching Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings , we all struggled to enjoy the average Marvel movie. In fact, five years after its September 2021 release (Rotten Tomatoes: 92% critics, 98% audience), it still holds up with fans. With Simu Liu’s Shang-Chi confirmed for Avengers: Doomsday on December 18, 2026, and Destin Daniel Cretton (who recently had a huge hit with Spider-Man: Brand New Day) confirming that a sequel is still in development, it’s time to take a look back at one of the best MCU movies ever made. How Shang-Chi Reinvents Marvel’s Master of Kung Fu Image Credit: Marvel Studios / Disney Let me preface this by saying I never had an interest in Shang-Chi in Marvel Comics. I always found him to be a deliberate rip-off of Bruce Lee and there was hardly any desire to make him anything more than that.

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