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Ye yan (Legend of the Black Scorpion) (The Banquet) (2006)

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Blending dazzling choreography, dramatic camerawork and a Shakespeare tragedy, LEGEND OF THE BLACK SCORPION debuts as a two-disc Ultimate Edition DVD set February 26th under the Dragon Dynasty label from Genius Products and The Weinstein Company.Hong Kong's 2006 Academy Award entry for Best Foreign Language Film, LEGEND OF THE BLACK SCORPION stage is set in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period of 10th Century China, featuring elaborate period costumes and sets.Starring stunning Golden

Unrated, 2 hr. 11 min.

Drama, Action & Adventure

Feb 26, 2008

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...mesmerizing but often empty...

September 13, 2006 Comment
Hollywood Reporter
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Visually opulent but stately and stygian.

September 4, 2006 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
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A refreshing retelling of Hamlet. With bright bold strokes of color in an otherwise dreary story.

August 3, 2009 Full Review Source: 3BlackChicks Review | Comment
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A production that's both amazing to look at and hard to enjoy, The Banquet contains plenty of visual pleasures, but ties its gloomy story in too many knots to be truly entertaining.

April 11, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment

Equivalent to attending a massive feast only to discover the main course is missing, The Banquet is frequently stunning, beautifully shot, but ultimately undernourishing.

April 11, 2008 Full Review Source: Sky Movies | Comment
Sky Movies

This dazzlingly designed, mega-budget, period costumer offers further proof of Feng's increasing versatility, expansive vision and bravura technique.

April 11, 2008 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

... transforms the drama of a young man caught between revenge and inaction into a dynamic tale of naked ambition and bold conspiracies in the chaos of China's Tang Dynasty.

February 28, 2008 Full Review Source: Seanax.com | Comment
Seanax.com

The Legend of the Black Scorpion is...as eye opening as it is thought provoking.

February 24, 2008 Full Review Source: PopMatters | Comment
PopMatters

For all its visual splendour, The Banquet has none of the pathos or originality of Crouching Tiger, nor does it endear us to its characters through its 140 minute running time

November 30, 2007 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | Comment
Urban Cinefile

This may be one of the year's better films, and some of the rawest Shakespeare you'll ever see.

October 4, 2007 Full Review Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Comment
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Ovaj poku%u0161aj spajanja Shakespearea i orijentalne tradicije nije uspio

September 28, 2007 Full Review Source: Index.hr | Comment
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The crown prince of a 10th century Chinese kingdom is summoned back to court when his father is assassinated and usurped by his uncle. Yet another Crouching Tiger wannabe starring the ubiquitous Zhang Ziyi, The Banquet is in fact a loose adaptation of Hamlet. I must admit to fearing the worst for the opening half of

July 21, 2007
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Xiaogang Feng creates a loose adaptation of William Shakespeare's Hamlet known as The Banquet.The story involves deceit, betrayal, and all the other good stuff in the royal court. It does have a play-like feel to it with a run time of 2 hours and 10 minutes and a pace that is quite slow. Yes, the film does drag at

June 11, 2009
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