House of Flying Daggers (2004)
Average Rating: 7.8/10
Reviews Counted: 167
Fresh: 147 | Rotten: 20
The visual splendor of the movie makes up for the weak story.
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
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A dazzler -- and almost as exciting as its title promises.
One of the most visually astonishing martial-arts fantasies ever made.
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.
As stunning as it is, it also serves notice that House of Flying Daggers will have none of the complexities of Hero.
Top CriticZhang 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.
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.
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.
Gorgeous, but also very violent.
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
A gorgeous film in all respects, both accessible and artistically satisfying. Excellent.
Moments of astonishing greatness followed by yawn-inducing romance.
See it in a theater on the biggest screen you can find
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.
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.
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Foreign Titles
- House of Flying Daggers (DE)
- House of Flying Daggers (UK)
