Tau Ming Chong (2009)
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Reviews Counted:14
Fresh:8
Rotten:6
Average Rating:5.6/10
Consensus: Slightly stodgy historical Chinese epic with impressive battles.
Runtime: 2 hrs 6 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Reviews for Tau Ming Chong
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 4/5 |
The guy story is so strong that conventional romantic interludes with the woman torn between two men could easily have been dropped. Full Review |
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4/6 |
Side-stepping the cold-steel visual perfection of ‘Hero’ and the fairytale detachment of ‘Crouching Tiger…’, the film hews closer to ‘Spartacus’ Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
Grand historical filmmaking from Peter Chan, if slightly confusing and cobbled in places. Full Review |
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There are no pecs and no leather Speedos, but there is a baffled general who, when facing defeat, blurts out the iconic line: “This is madness!” Full Review |
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2/5 |
As so often with this sort of material, I found the battle scenes beautifully shot, but strangely uninvolving, and the narrative is cumbersome and overlong. Full Review |
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A village-pillaging extravaganza whose music and pitched slaughter compete to ruin your inner ear. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Li brings the intensity previously seen in Fearless to his compromised General, while Lau is a noble savage, vying with Pang for Lian’s affection in the obligatory romantic subplot. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Handsomely mounted as it is, it’s a bit on the stodgy side. Romance inevitably causes a rupture in the trio, but as time grinds by, your interest is also bound to buckle. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Intense, visceral and highly violent, they look just great, placing you right there in the thick of the action, making The Warlords our film of the week. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Great for battle re-enactment fanatics, not so good for The Sneak, whose senses have been dulled to the slow-motion slicing of limbs and heads which recur so often in these kind of films. Full Review |
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Lest the spectacle alone fail to conquer, a truth-based plot is wheeled into place and historical actualities are hurled over the walls of audience resistance, as if to say: “This rise and fall of a rebel leader” Full Review |
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2/5 |
The vicissitudes of Qing dynasty politics in the mid-19th century remain rather confusing, and the bloodiness of the battles is relentless, but the film has something to say about the spiritual corruption that afflicts men who live by war. Full Review |
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3/5 |
But the action often gets in the way of the drama — which is what generally happens when there’s an enormous budget and an obvious pitch for box-office appeal. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Peter Chan's period epic features some spectacular battle sequences and a strong performance from Jet Li but it drags considerably in the middle section and it's hard to really engage with the story. Full Review |
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CommentLatest News for Tau Ming Chong
May 19, 2009:
Magnet Drawn to Jet Li's Warlords 
Jet Li and Andy Lau's "Warlords," a "historical action epic" that drew crowds and won awards in China, has found an American distributor in the form of Magnet Releasing. More...
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