This is a movie from the director of Hero and Flying daggers so i thought it might be a good movie and the reviews have been on top. The first half had a slow tempo and i had wanted some more action scenes but more towards the end there was really nice big fights tho. The movie s...( read more)
This movie is just sooooo good and not because of its ocassional action scenes or anything. Nope...its awesomeness comes from a great storyline and good dialogue. Wow! how many secrets can a family have especially a royal family??? The film's colors were so vibrant...made me feel...( read more)
The colours and sets were wonderful but that was all that was wonderful. The story went slower than the tortoise in that race he had with the hare. Shame really.
a very beautiful film. i love the way the colors were used. it really shows how one secret can tear a family apart.
Great Great Movie. Loved it all the way around!!! Amazing effects, martial arts. Chow Yun Fat was amazing. Very stimulating
After a while, I got an eyesore watching this with all the gold going on. It was a beautiful film, but the story, how it was executed, not quite. and I'm not a huge fan of Chow Yun-Fat.
Stunninly beautiful visuals, intriguing story of treachery and deception, set during Imperial China
Foreign, Chinese. This was a good movie! The colors in this movie is amazing; it's just a palette for the eye, it's so beautiful! It's about an inter-family struggle for power, in the Tang Dynasty, in China. This movie was done brilliantly and it's amazing how beautiful this ...( read more)
Very elaborate and beautifully filmed. The action scenes and the cinematography are of course what you expect from modern Chinese cinema, but the chemistry between the leads make it both believable and entertaining.
I had this checked that I wanted to see it. Well, I finally got to see it curtesy of Encore Action. I found it sad yet very provoking every sense that a human has.
While it looks very very nice, and the acting is quite good, the story was mediocre at best and the ending was COMPLETE SHIT!!
It makes you feel as if nothing happened, the guy you wanted to lose throughout the whole film essentially wins, and it makes you feel as if you've wast...( read more)
Number 2 on my favorites list. Dysfunction, betrayal, incest, love, hate, and death. all to the background of a beautiful, colorful palace. The colors in this film are amazing and provide a perfect backdrop to the destruction of an imperial family.
he sets and the cinematography are stunning. All sorts of eye candy :) Twisted story, good story.
You can always expect something from Zhan Yi Mou....
This is not a sensational film, but it met my expectation...and it reach Zhang's standard in previous movies...
Jay Chou is not a good actor...
Chow Yun Fat and GongLi are great but I cant see any chemical effects between th...( read more)
This is a feast for the eyes! The incredible sets, scenery and heaving boosoms are jaw dropping. If there were say 10 minutes more of the kung fu action, this would get a perfect score. The story is Shakesperean and filled with surprises. I didn't see the ending coming, though I ...( read more)
I can appreciate the numerous months spent on costume and set design that went into Curse of the Golden Flower without a doubt. But in the end all this movie was is Shakespeare with some sparse wire fights. The performances were okay but that ending was utter horseshit. Go watch ...( read more)
7 stars * * * * * * *
what i can say is that "Curse of the Golden Flower" is "The Godfather" of our time plus so much visual beauty.
this was fuckin stoopid. I've never seen so many Asian chicks with such big boobs. EVER. that's it. that's the plot. I can't even remember anything else. totally ridiculous.
Some of the most breath-taking & just absolutely beautiful background sets designs ever in a film. So rich are the colors & exquisit details in this movie, that it requires multiple viewings just to be able to soak it all in. Once one can get passed that aspect of the film, it wi...( read more)
Com um roteiro de intriga palaciana que faria inveja a Shakespeare e uma produção impecável que remonta os costumes e visuais dos palácios na China antiga, esse filme é uma quebra na linha wuxia de Zhang Yimou (ainda que tenha a sua dose de ação), mas uma bela e fantasticamente e...( read more)
It was a pointless movie! The only thing that happened was that everyone died in the end. . .except Chow-Yun-Fat!
But, the whole setting of a Chinese palace was really pretty. And the costumes were cool.
an absolutley fantastic film that has everything. Beautiful colour, wonderful shots, goregeous cinematography, an enticing narrative with many intriguing multiple strands and enough genre reverse conventions to make this seem fresh and exciting. Many chinese films lose some of th...( read more)
I must admit that it was fairly predictable toward the ending but nonetheless a good plot.
A very odd movie...You start thinking it will get better, but they just get worse.
When autumn comes on Double Ninth Festival, / my flower [the chrysanthemum] will bloom and all others perish. / When the sky-reaching fragrance [of the chrysanthemum] permeates Chang'an, / the whole city will be clothed in golden armour....this was brilliant!...although greatly a...( read more)
Slow but absorbing, this tragedy has the power of a Shakespeare play with the beautiful (really, astounding) visuals of Zhang Yimou. This film has a wonderful costume and set design, which blows away all viewers, even if the intensely dramatic, bloody plot doesn't grab your inter...( read more)
Only one filmmaker exists that has the guts to tell a black tale about bad people set amongst a treasure for the eyes the likes of which you haven't seen before.
Not for a second did I think Yimou's third big budget picture and my least anticipated would make me feel like Hero a...( read more)
Wonderful epic movie from China, which is directed by Zhang Yimou. He has previously made the House of Flying Daggers (Flyvende Dolker) and the amazing Hero as well, and he has proved himself again. As the mentioned movies, this movie is also set in a historical context for aroun...( read more)
magnificently acted and visually stunning, emotionally bereft of redemption - reminiscent of Greek classic tragedy or the grand drama of Shakespeare.
Not for the faint of heart - this is a deeply disturbing psychological treatment of cruelty and power- if you are expecting a mar...( read more)
Good movie. Great action, great costumes, I will watch it over and over with the subtitles.
