Why such a low rating ?

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quite. perfectly engaging and movie-feasible plot line, visually spectacular - mouth watering really - great direction, camera work, plausible acting for the genre, never dragged for a single frame, great fight choreography, variety and pacing in the sequencing; a great total arc from start to close - thoroughly entertaining!

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Most of the riding scenes looked a little bit cheesy, with Pei and later Dee, like from a TV-Movie and not a big-budget production.
Maybe the Hongkong-studios were over-challenged, überfordert with this.

The SFX with the priest's flying red clothes looked like from the late Nineties.

The combat-deers were innovative and nice! Martial-arts fights in good quality.


Overall a good film with varying quality.

The films cinematography is breathtaking. Every frame is filled with fantastic, beautiful color, which really compliments the historically fictions world we are thrown into. Yet, John Hartl of the Seattle Times sums up the movie's biggest flaw - "By the end... it's reasonable to ask: who are these people?" I had the same feeling near the end of the movie. Even though I had watched all of these characters for two hours, I didn't feel as though I knew or cared about any them. There could have been more, or at least more effective, character development. Not to mention, the subplot concerning transfiguration only muddled the picture as a whole. However, the film was a fun action yarn that had me entertained for the most part.

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Dawn of the Dead

I'd say 6.6 is a very appropriate rating. Pretty good, entertaining and well-made flick, but dragged-on and far from exceptional.

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