Just watched Trang Ti before the latest wave of COVID-19 swept across my country and I gotta say, this movie really surprised me with how good it was consider the fantasy genre in Vietnam still a very tricky one to crack open. All the characters from the beloved comic book series Trang Ti by author Le Linh all come to life in a natural way with a few changes here and there but ultimately work out well in favor of the movie. Since the comic book as far as I can remember very episodic in term of plot and story structure at least in the beginning so I don't mind when the movie basically crammed 2 to 3 volumes worth of content into the first 15 minutes to set up for the original story and despite being generic it still delivers a good all-around performance from an up and coming young cast and the special effects on this one especially blew my mind away. To be honest part of my enjoyment come from the low expectations so please take my review with a grain of salt and see it for yourself (after the pandemic of course).