Seven Swords (2005)
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Reviews Counted: 13 Fresh: 3 Rotten:10 Average Rating: 4.6/10
Rated: Not Rated
Runtime: 2 hrs 34 mins
Runtime: 2 hrs 34 mins
Synopsis:
ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA director Tsui Hark directs this martial arts extravaganza. Set during a time in China when the Ching Dynasty ruled the country and martial arts fighting was strictly outlawed, the film focuses on a group of seven swordsmen who break the law and attempt to save a village... [More]
Genre: Sports/Recreation
Starring: Donnie Yen, Leon Lai, Charlie Yeung, Chia-Liang Liu
Director: Hark Tsui
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Top Critic
[The film] leaves itself open in the end for sequelization, which would be a good thing. There's enough worth appreciating in Seven Swords to think that a second try could easily find its comfort zone.
03/02/07 06:34 PM
The problem is that Seven Swords' narrative is so cluttered with briefly sketched characters and subplots as to be almost impossible to follow.
03/02/07 06:33 PM
Top Critic Looks gorgeous, but ultimately collapses under its own weight, as if it were a Chinese Kingdom of Heaven.
01/18/07 05:03 AM
What could and should have been great is reduced to the tragically dull. A wasted opportunity of immense proportions.
04/01/06 03:31 AM
This long picture unspooled to its end without ever involving or engaging me all that much.
02/25/06 03:33 AM
Every now and then, I’d like to watch a movie that could give me thrills, an engaging story, and not force me to think actively about ideology in order to enjoy it.
02/22/06 03:16 AM
Tsui's strengths lie mostly in martial arts mayhem ... but unfortunately it's the film's ponderousness that stays with you after it's done.
02/02/06 11:10 PM
Your enjoyment will be limited by your capacity to watch people try to carve each other up. Some of the plot is a little familiar and borrowed from better films including THE GUNS OF NAVARONE. Still, there is some nearly majestic photography.
11/11/05 02:38 AM
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