Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Wu Assassins’ on Netflix, a Mystical Martial Arts Series Endowing Iko Uwais with the Power of 1,000 Monks By John Serba Published Aug. 9, 2019, 1:15 p.m. ET ...

However, Wu Assassins isn’t all smoke and fire-fueled fists, there’s an intriguing story there. Like a handful of classic martial arts heroes, Kai Jin doesn’t start as a master. The skill ...

This is a mostly spoiler-free review for all 10 episodes of Wu Assassins, which premiered August 8 on Netflix. Starring renowned martial artist and movie star Iko Uwais (The Raid films, The Night ...

But poor Celia Au (Lodge 49) as Ying-Ying—the very first Wu Assassin and a kind of spirit guide to Kai—is stuck with all the clumsy exposition dialogue. She flounders badly.

Celia Au's first Wu assassin character was indeed so poor that I wondered if this was a children's show. ... If they dropped the whole monk thing and just made the chef a bad-ass ninja with no ...

While "Wu Assassins" is about elemental, magic monks, its Chinatown crime story takes inspiration from the true story of San Francisco gang leader, Little Pete.

Iko Uwais is ready to kick some serious butt. We’ve seen him do it in The Raid and most recently in Stuber, but now the Indonesian action star is taking the lead in Netflix’s forthcoming Wu ...