Too many fans seem to be blown away

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

A Brilliant Conflict

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

I used to think Gojoe reisenki was the worst movie ever made. This movie is much much worse. I would rather watch Gojoe everyday for the rest of my life than see this movie twice.This is what happens when you give a 12 year old a half-way decent CGI machine for an hour. The story is simply childish. It's almost as if they created the CGI scenes before deciding what the plot would be.This movie is an embarrassment to China. Their economy has been doing pretty good supposedly... if they keep producing movies like this they will be sunk. I can only think that those who gave this movie more than 1 star are joking.

It was crap, not because of plot holes; in fact the plot was, good.... not bad (For those comic enthusiasts who watched X3, I think you can appreciate that "Good" is a relative term).It did not suck because it lacked character development (though in retrospect they probably could have done more with the Red character, and I didn't fully understand the role of the narrator/mortal woman)….. You know what, scrap that. The character development was a shy away from shameful. But it still isn't at fault. Even the corny catch phrases and overused clichés were kept at a minimum (I think, after all, the film was originally Japanese). No, the fundamental problem with this film was that it was presented in entirely the wrong medium. Everything about this movie screams animation, or even CGI; the plot, the styles of plot development, least of all character design. Everything, that is, but the director. Ah well, shame.Over all, I think I would give it a 4.5/10. But I earnestly believe it would easily gain an additional 2 1/2 stars as an animation (Come to think of it so would Resident Evil). I seriously mean it though, if you watched this movie with your eyes shut, it wouldn't be half bad. Trust me, I know.

Well, what can I say... This movie is awful.As people have commented the special effects are not the best, but still pretty good. I can agree with them here. Although they still bothered me.The plot of the movie/character development was absolutely horrible. At the end of the movie, you realize there was no plot at all, and the only reason anyone who was sane would watch the movie is for the mediocre special effects.I was also expecting something with a bit of humor mixed in such as in Hark's Chinese Ghost Story, but again, there was no time after you put in all of the garbage this movie was collected from.To sum up, it wasn't a complete waste of time if you have nothing other to do than sit around anyway, but in my opinion stay away...

This film looks fantastic. Its one of the most spectacular films I've ever seen. It seems as though Tsui Hark and crew suddenly were given away to truly unleash their imaginations for the first time with computer graphics and the went for it. This film is simply wonderful to look at.The problem is that the film feels like its starting in the middle and assumes you'll pick it up as you go along. Thats fine but its at least 25 minutes before we start to get anything like character development and by that time I was hopeless unconnected to anything except the visuals.The plot has something to do with the battle of good and evil in the sacred mountains of Zu in China. The story starts hundreds of years ago and then jumps forward once then twice in what becomes a story of lovers reunited over time while battling a great evil called, I kid you not, Insomnia. This is a remake/sequel/rethinking of the earlier Hong Kong film Zu Warriors of the Magic Mountain also by Tsui Hark. The earlier film looks less impressive compared to this one but it pushed the limits of what you could do with martial arts films and fantasy and set the stage for many classics that followed. The "original" film has a slightly tighter narrative thread, that film at least had a place to step on before things got jumbled.This is a great film to look at and I'm certain that should it ever get a US release this will play better on the big screen than it does on TV, simply because you'll get a sense of scale to the spectacle.Visuals are ten out of ten. The story telling is a two. Split the difference five out of ten over all.