I was dragged to watch this film, because I've never enjoyed Michelle Yeoh's works. It doesn't help that when the first dialog was spoken, it was in mandarin. I was like "OMG! How am i to last 2 hours in a mandarin movie? But this movie really surprised me... in a pleasant way :) The action sequence is one of the best I've seen since the 90s (!) The story build up is easy to follow, even though I hardly understand mandarin. The character development is very good, and this is rarely seen in Chinese sword-fighting flicks. Most sword-fighting flicks involved a hero, a villain, a goal, and loads of sword-fights between good and evil. In Reign of Assassins, viewers are treated with plenty of reasonable twists throughout the movie, enough depth into the lead characters for viewers to empathize with them, And of course, excellent choreography to make it into the action flick that it is meant to be.
To try to summarize the story without giving away the twists in the movie, will only serve to make the movie sound uninteresting. All i can say is, for those who is uncertain whether to watch this movie, should go ahead and watch it. I watched it on the big screen 9 times already... broke my personal record. That, i think, says a lot about how interesting this movie can be.
To try to summarize the story without giving away the twists in the movie, will only serve to make the movie sound uninteresting. All i can say is, for those who is uncertain whether to watch this movie, should go ahead and watch it. I watched it on the big screen 9 times already... broke my personal record. That, i think, says a lot about how interesting this movie can be.