Review of The Twins Effect II

I unfortunately bought the UK DVD of this movie; I had no idea it was a TWINS flick and instead saw it repackaged as a historical war effort. Needless to say I was ripped off, because BLADE OF KINGS is one of the very worst mainstream movies I've seen in a long time. Partly it seems to be a spoof of CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON, with a random and all over the place storyline involving a kingdom of Amazons controlled by an evil queen who enjoys subjugating men. There's an undercurrent of misogyny running throughout which gives it an unpleasant taste, but even worse are the dreadful performances from a trio of non-actors: Gillian Chung, Charlene Choi and Jaycee Chan, none of whom should have rightly worked again after this. Add in gaudy costumes, awful CGI effects and nonsense fight scenes filled with flashy slow motion and heavy wire work, and you wonder what Corey Yuen was thinking directing it. The only thing of interest is a brief cameo from Jackie Chan, and he does get to fight Donnie Yen, but it's hardly worth sitting through the movie just for that. Just awful.