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House of Flying Daggers (2004)

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Average Rating: 7.8/10
Reviews Counted: 167
Fresh: 147 | Rotten: 20

The visual splendor of the movie makes up for the weak story.

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Average Rating: 8.1/10
Critic Reviews: 41
Fresh: 39 | Rotten: 2

The visual splendor of the movie makes up for the weak story.

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Chinese director Zhang Yimou fuses a martial arts action-drama with a tragic romance in this elegant period piece. In the year 859 A.D., as the Tang dynasty is beset by rebellion, Leo (Andy Lau) and Jin (Takeshi Kaneshiro) are a pair of lawmen who have been given the task of ferreting out the leaders of a revolutionary faction known as the Flying Daggers. Working on a tip that members of the group are working out of a brothel called the Peony Pavilion, Jin arrives there in disguise and is

Mar 29, 2005

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All Critics (177) | Top Critics (42) | Fresh (154) | Rotten (20) | DVD (33)

A dazzler -- and almost as exciting as its title promises.

January 14, 2005 Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel
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One of the most visually astonishing martial-arts fantasies ever made.

January 14, 2005 Full Review Source: Miami Herald
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About as viscerally and visually exciting as film can get, and yet it is also fully, ripely romantic in a way that few modern films would dare.

January 14, 2005
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As stunning as it is, it also serves notice that House of Flying Daggers will have none of the complexities of Hero.

January 14, 2005 Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press
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Zhang proves that Hero was no accident with House of Flying Daggers, another Chinese period piece resplendent with a dazzling palette and soaring, ambitious fight sequences.

January 13, 2005 Full Review Source: Arizona Republic
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An intoxicating cocktail of splendid visuals, spectacular action, state-of-the-art computer-generated imagery and some old-fashioned swashbuckling worthy of Hollywood's Golden Age.

January 13, 2005 Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Though occasionally overwrought, peerless sequences, such as the sublime flight through a bamboo forest, ensure House Of Flying Daggers is a work of real beauty.

November 7, 2012 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine Australasia
Empire Magazine Australasia

Gorgeous, but also very violent.

December 24, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media

The studied, artistic affectations may prevent this Mandarin-language art house effort from being as kinetically potent as the films it emulates, but it more than compensates by offering up deeply felt emotions played out on a grand scale more than adequa

July 4, 2008 Full Review Source: ESplatter | Comment (1)
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A gorgeous film in all respects, both accessible and artistically satisfying. Excellent.

June 21, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Scouts
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Moments of astonishing greatness followed by yawn-inducing romance.

January 10, 2006 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com
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See it in a theater on the biggest screen you can find

September 1, 2005 Full Review Source: Movie Habit
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Though it is by no means explicitly political, the film expresses a tragic exasperation with the tendency of politics to subsume the rights and lives of individuals.

June 21, 2005 Full Review Source: Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Not Coming to a Theater Near You

The film whips hold of your senses and never lets go, but the story also has an immediacy in its exposition that makes each sequence plunge headfirst into the next.

June 10, 2005 Full Review Source: Movie City News
Movie City News

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really pretty crappy, I thought
March 26, 2007
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