Leon Lai, Charlie Yeung, Donnie Yen
Set in seventeenth century China. The inhabitants of Manchuria, under the Qing dynasty, have extended their dominion over the entire Country. While the masters of martial arts gather to prepare nation...( read more
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DVD Release Date: January 16, 2007
Stats: 606 reviews
As much as i think that Tsui Hack is an average director at best this one is not a bad flick. Mind you, the film is uneven and flawed as hell, the focus of the story is just on a couple of characters, and the rest end up as nothing but filler. That said, the fights are good, if ...( read more)
A horde of bounty hunters are ravaging the land, murdering everyone in their path until one village enlists the help of 5 swordsmen from a mystical mountain top. Tsui Hark is desperate to ape the success of Crouching Tiger and Hero, and although he has some success in copying the...( read more)
One of these films that is so bad it actually becomes kind of good. This one for instance is actually a collection of the best scenes of a 9 hours long min-series. The result is that it is plainly impossible to understand the story.
At times the film drags too much as we await some more ass kicking awesomeness. When it does come it is far from dissapointing. The different swords are just well cool. Pretty much a road movie version of Seven Samurai. Very, very good.
This was an epic movie with flourishes of originality. Absolute mesmerising weaponary and fighting, like a chinese lord of the rings kind of! :P
This is the most violent live action asian movie I have seen. I have seen enough of them to have some understanding of their directing styles. All other asian action movies have people dying and blood can be seen but the limbs going in all directions little to none in them. Havin...( read more)
Tsui Hark aint got nothing. This was such a fizzer of a movie. So damn cliched, it brought nothing...NOTHING new to the genre. Felt like Tsui was aping the best things from the other asian blockbusters like crouching tiger, etc. Basically imagine 7 samurai mixed with the power ra...( read more)
i liked it... fantastic sword fights and loved the different swords. I wonder if those swords still exist. Hmph ... interesting. . . Amazing how the women can be brave enough to go hand in hand with men in fighting , (not to mention the kid with the strong will power to su...( read more)
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