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The Princess and the Warrior is dumb fun - with an emphasis on silent. Directed by Ching Siu-Tung, the Empress is an epic theater costumes for shares with a bad script and supports a casting requires a double take. Casting Donnie Yen, as a warrior badass / agent is a no-brainer, Leon Lai, and is at least imagine how a tree crawling doctor / lover. Kelly Chen, but like a princess warrior? Introducing the ethereal Chen as a princess is easy - but if I say I am the idea of one of these heroines of Disney, speaks to the animals and the nasty deeds and spunky in front of his feet swept from his knight in shining armor. Music expenditure would be a must.
But this is not the type of character that Chen plays in the Empress. Here it is necessary to a young princess, a difficult challenge: a heritage of the whole Kingdom, which is at war. You think that this responsibility should a serious, targeted young woman with a huge chip on his shoulder, not a ditzy, e princess, the time has to act stupid. But we have the whole route - for serious stupid pouty - with Chen photogenic and disturbing results, as well as a whole is inconsistent to be taken seriously. Warriors and the Empress of the opposition view, and finally is a film not on the quality of calls. But fun? It may be.
Chen Yan stars as celebration, the daughter of the King of Yan, the seriously wounded in the battle with the enemy army Zhao, and choose your order for orphan adopted Muyong Xuehu (Donnie Yen). The mission is a little surprising, since Xuehu - is also the brother of Hu celebration - blood is not compatible with the Yan family, and nephew of Wu Ba (Guo Xiao-Dong) is ready, able and willing to work. But the King knows that Ba Wu mongering, it is a dog and rat elect more of him this profit Wu Ba anger, and a quick killing in the absence of research. Celebration comes to his dying father, he says that the symbolic Swallow Sword’s brother Hu, bestowing on him the mantle of the Yan rule.
However, if the time has come when these new ranks in the army, which they gausser because they have a little mistrust, an orphan without the command line. Hu moves quickly and tricks, the men together to think that the king will celebrate in his kingdom, which means gasp * * a woman, is now used by the Kingdom! But Wu Ba company and are still not convinced of his ability to lead the attack against the forces intervene Zhao, celebration, to learn, Kick Ass This leads to an assembly inspired by training, many plans by Donnie Yen beat Tar of Kelly Chen. Right now on it must be cackling popstar many opponents of this idea, and in fact, it’s fun to see guiltily at the fair, slight Chen smacked around the muscle power yen. These scenes are a blow to the credibility of the film, that the idea that Chen might even a last minute against the yen to buy is difficult.
But that’s not the end of the film’s credibility is missing. Brother Hu ceremony indicates that the Kingdom should, because it is the only one that can unite the people. As he said, “The nation loves you.” Really? Where are these people that Hu is to speak? Despite, a film about the war of the rich and a nation in the seat, the Empress and the Warriors rarely person authorised to represent a handful of soldiers. There are some glimpses of the great armies, before some of the battles, but overall it is a film unusually empty. In more than one scene in its investigations celebrate their town or country, but nobody can be seen during these sequences all. The coronation, he never, and the implicit meaning of scale through the film on the history and the dialogue seems never to save. In the end, the Empress and the Warriors feels very easy, although the potential for the destruction of an entire Kingdom. The script (written by James Yuen Sai Sang, etc.) has all your usual positions control this kind of history (betrayal, loyalty, charity, humanity, etc.), but does not believe that convincing. In this context, the details, such as Mark He schwülstig the customer and Yee Chung-Man’s ornate production design feel more than a little exaggerated.
Nothing is sillier, however, that Kelly Chen from the action. The singer, actress tried valiantly, and had very, very difficult on the film of action sequences. But their influence is not shelf, and in his wonderful incompatible. She is strong and determined at the beginning of the courses, but at half-time, the animal, Kelly Chen grumpy old. After an assassination attempt leaves celebration of disappearance and fatally injured, she has found and nurtured back to health by the doctor if you Lanquan Duan (Leon Lai), lives with drawing up a treehouse, what was shipped more planet Endor. Lanquan spends his time with the silence of nature and design a hot air balloon, and the time celebration with him happened idyllic, nice, and shocking in its lack of continuity. By and large, it is as it should be in a completely different film.
Celebration will take serious and stupid and nasty, and the film does not contain enough history to give his personality a lot of credibility. Perhaps the idea that they finally let her hair, outside the suffocating walls of the palace, but the film is not very good vehicle. If you read through the lines, the Empress can do much more sense than the plan for a practice, if cliché plot exist. But really, the public should not be necessary to do this work for the filmmakers. The history and the feelings of warriors and the Empress feel extraordinary, in exceptional cases only the form, as they are not really the focus or the support for their prejudice. Even the promise tractor has succeeded, more hearts, that this film.
This works in the Empress? Well, the action is acceptable, but it is a little underwhelming to the finals, where Donnie Yen Donnie Yen to the hordes of soldiers who are not against the uber-male studies is that Donnie Yen. Usual overactor yen keeps a lid on a large part of the film, and deals with the nature of love is not shared celebration to be good enough to appeal to the public. If he is on the summit, but everyone had a better attention, because it is time for even more muscular and yen, badass glares - and that any person whose knowledge Dragon Tiger Gate or flashpoint know, overacting yen the amount of entertainment. However, Yen is a fact thespian beside Kelly Chen, which seems always to try more roles beyond its reach. It is still a very beautiful woman, but their faces and forms of expression grumpy pouty in a romantic comedy, not a big budget wannabe fabulous costumes. Maybe if they added some of the animals talk, then the quality of its services better suited feel.
Empress and the Warriors is in many ways a combination of old and new film from Hong Kong. The parameters of the scope and size means that they are very new, in accordance with the trend of development of ancient Chinese dramas, the action began with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and went with another Zillion films as lead actress Zhang Ziyi. But the silence more details, and reversing Cuteness aware ton feel in this first ninety wuxia culture of mixed-flight kung-fu with the values of production and bâclée bizarre hijinks. These films were often different, but always entertaining, and the empress cut almost the same stuff here.
The problem is that the former cinema from Hong Kong formula does not really here, as the film-production values are too serious and designed, and the film is not strange, limited cheese combination of elements. However, the parties sometimes to entertain and entertain. The action can distract and the interpreters are very close to the A-list. You are not really turn the quality of performances, but they are photogenic, friendly and good for the public, like a popstar small part of its big-budget moviegoing. Things like Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is admissible, as List A number of Hollywood-like, despite the fact that this unequal, stupid, and the characteristics completely miscast performers. Looking at the Empress and the beauty of the same way - as the commercial product shit with very low expectations linked to it - then it is possible that you enjoy. A year from now, nobody is in this film, but ninety minutes, he can time. Many public think that all films.
Chinese:
Year: 2008
Director: Ching Siu-Tung
Producer: Claudie Chung Chun
Cast: Donnie Yen Ji-Dan, Kelly Chen, Leon Lai Ming, Guo Xiao-Dong, Kau Jan-Hoi
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