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Tommi Eronen, Markku Peltola, Jingchu Zhang
Thousands of years ago in ancient China, a love struck sword hero fights against his destiny. He wants another chance to be reunited with his loved one and he gets that chance, in a far away place and...( read more
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Id: 7411637
Monumental let-down. The trailer was 10X better than the film.
Ultra-slow epic Finnish/Chinese story, partly in the past and partly in the present. The idea is brilliant.
It's like Highlander. The present-day stuff is nothing special but the parts in the past are nothing sho...( read more)
Very cool to see a finnish movie, and it diddnt suck! quite suprised actually.. liked some parts of it, but some where just bad.. anyways, worth your while!
A masterful film which successfully transcends genera! Mixed modern (Finland) and ancient / mythical (China) story threads are interwoven successfully, without question, while Finnish and Chinese mythologies are skillfully interwoven. The plot is compelling, and the cinematogra...( read more)
Not bad, the movie jumps around a bit, but everytime you learn something more that is important to the story line.
Artistic movie, most of my friends who've seen this did not understand the movie fully, but I loved it. Really artistic movie, which requires more than just sitting and watching, I would recommend this still to almost anyone.
The action scenes are bad. It was boring throughout the movie. The only good thing in this movie is the cute chick(Jingchu Zhang). Only Asian actors are suited for wuxia genre movies..
Sino-Finnish swordplay-romance time-travel fantasy-morality tale mish-mash. But I have to give, Finnish actor Tommi Eronen looks awesome in period costume.
