Plot: I don't think I'm bias at all. Uh uh. Watching the entire movie itself was amazing enough for a I-don't-like-swords-and-clingclank me. If you are all prepared for the fighting scenes, don't bother. There are only 2 pathetic scenes featuring the showdown. And trust me, those scenes ended like POOOFT! fast. Snap snap and its done. And the part where arrows could be pierced through the armour yet a bloody knife couldn't aggravates me BIG BIG time. No logic leh, director/producer/scriptwriter/whosoever.
Run time of the movie was like 105 mins (oh, GV states 95 mins) if I hadn't remembered wrongly. Problem is, I concluded the entire 105 mins without knowing what exactly is the objective of the movie.
I really think Donnie Yen's talent was wasted. Mr Director ah,
you could've invited someone cheaper for his role you know...
Acting: I only like Donnie Yen's. Guess the reason why I managed to complete the movie must be because of him. Infinitely. Only to heave a bigger sigh. Fan-seee of Donnie Yen (Why Yen ah? Thought his surname is Zhen??) please don't pin to much hopes for his fighting scenes. Kelly Chan looks stupid as a martial pugilist. Leon Lai looks retarded. Period.
Visuals: Ok, I know I sound bimbotic. The more I anticipated Kelly Chan (Yan Fei-er) appear in the all so princessy costumes, the more dissapoinment I've gathered. She's tall, stylish, pretty and I've got nothing against her. BUT WHY? WHY IS SHE SO ABSOLUTELY UNKEMPT in the movie??? I know lah, she's supposed to fight and lead the war blah blah blah, but can make her prettier not?? Those close up (horribly horribly ugly) and slow motioned expressions of her falling off from the horse - total turn off.
Empress, princess, whatever. Don't even think of her looking or dressing like one in the movie. Instead, be very kind and prepare yourself to see her (all the damn time) in one of those bing ma yong suit. UGH. No colors. All black black grey grey dark dark dirty dirty. The title says "Jiang Shan Mei Ren" and "Mei Ren" means beauty. Where's the beauty? I don't see any leh~
Direction: World peace! He wants it, she enforced it, everybody dies. Then world peace. I don't wanna be a spoiler, so go watch and you'll know what I'm yakking about.
Overall: Don't watch can? Really, don't watch don't watch... From the bottom of my sincerest, compassionate buddha-liked heart - don't watch. Wait for dvd.
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