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Review: Michelle Yeoh elevates Netflix's overstretched martial arts dramedy 'The Brothers Sun'

Alice Hewkin in a scene from "The Brothers Sun."

"The Brothers Sun," which premiered Thursday on Netflix, is a hodgepodge of a martial arts family dramedy, elevated by the presence and performance of Michelle Yeoh. And you can quote me.

We begin in Taipei, Taiwan, in a glass-walled apartment in a modern skyscraper, where handsome, fit Charles Sun (Justin Chien) is baking a cake while "The Great British Baking Show" plays on his big-screen TV. A team of masked assassins bursts in. He dispatches them with furious-fisted ease, but at the cost of his cake burning. Obviously, there is more to Charles than combining the dry and wet

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