As usual, Chinese war movie is good. The action and the fighting of this movie is good. The dialog is also cool and the acting is awesome. You'll be easily satisfied by watching the action without thinking the story line.
But there is something that makes feel that this movie is not outstanding. It is the duration. Vaness Wu, the second Liu Dynasty King and some others play too short. You can even skip them and not losing the story line. The girl is also play too short. I might think that she is only a refreshing 'image' due to the dominating men scene.
The ending is quite disappointing. The ending is that the dynasty was reunited by Jin Dynasty. The question is, who the hell is Jin? There are no dialog about it. Must we read the history book first to get the point? I'm sure that 90 minutes are too short for this movie. Additional important scenes are truly needed to make this movie as a depth movie, not just a cool bloody kick-ass.
Overall, it's a worth-enough movie to be watched. Not bad compared to Andy Lau previous Warlord and a good addition to colossal war movie, especially when that kind of movie is rare recently.
But there is something that makes feel that this movie is not outstanding. It is the duration. Vaness Wu, the second Liu Dynasty King and some others play too short. You can even skip them and not losing the story line. The girl is also play too short. I might think that she is only a refreshing 'image' due to the dominating men scene.
The ending is quite disappointing. The ending is that the dynasty was reunited by Jin Dynasty. The question is, who the hell is Jin? There are no dialog about it. Must we read the history book first to get the point? I'm sure that 90 minutes are too short for this movie. Additional important scenes are truly needed to make this movie as a depth movie, not just a cool bloody kick-ass.
Overall, it's a worth-enough movie to be watched. Not bad compared to Andy Lau previous Warlord and a good addition to colossal war movie, especially when that kind of movie is rare recently.