Asian genre buffs should also dig this Stateside. The pic earned about $18.4 million in just one day and is out to plunder local box office until the force of “Star Wars” awakens on Jan. ![]() Though the film lacks the spooky, macabre spirit expected of this subterranean subgenre, Mongolian-Chinese helmer Wuershan ( “Painted Skin II: The Resurrection”) applies his outlandish visual panache to evoke an underground world of ethnic antiquity refreshingly distinct from traditional Han-Chinese culture. ![]() Diving into the bowels of the earth to fight zombies and explore a lost Khitan kingdom, the 3D tomb-raiding blockbuster “ Mojin: The Lost Legend” barrels forth with enough robust action and technical moxie to make audiences overlook its formulaic plotting and rote characterizations.
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