ROTTEN TOMATOES: Asian Trio Gets Ready for "Violent Land"

Asian Trio Gets Ready for "Violent Land"

by Scott Weinberg | December 06, 2006

Bigtime Asian stars Jet Li, Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro have signed to co-star in Peter Ho-Sun Chan's "Ci Ma" (aka "This Violent Land"), a big-scale period epic that'll probably have lots of great action scenes.

From Variety: "China's passion for period war epics shows no sign of abating as Asian thesps Jet Li, Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro prep to don their Qing Dynasty armor for the $40 million-budget "Ci Ma" (This Violent Land).

At the helm will be Peter Ho-Sun Chan, fresh from directing the Golden Horse-winning "Perhaps Love." Femme roles have yet to be cast.

"Ci Ma" is an heroic tale of three blood brothers and their struggle in the midst of war and political upheaval. It is based on "The Assassination of Ma," a Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) story about the killing of general Ma Xinyi. The story was filmed by Zhang Che in 1973 as "The Blood Brothers."

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ChimneyClot writes:
on Dec 06 2006 02:54 AM

Didn't Fearless market "Jet Li's Final Martial Arts Epic" to death?

Am I missing something?

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GreenBastard writes:
on Dec 06 2006 04:01 AM

I've been having trouble sleeping lately so this movie should do the trick.

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digitalsoul68 writes:
on Dec 06 2006 05:45 AM

That's what I thought, too, Chimney. Maybe it's because they're toting it as a "period WAR epic"?

Green - what's the matter? don't like the Chinese period pieces? I think with three great actors, it'll be very good.

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Mikeal420 writes:
on Dec 06 2006 07:44 AM

yes, its pretty much guaranteed this will be a highly entertaining action flick, but as someone who has followed Chinese cinema fiercly for the past 15 years, this film, to me, marks an end to the creativity that has lifted Mainland China to the forefront of international film making. This type of story and film has been done to death. Also, none of these films, even "Hero", will ever live up to China's first great film of this type, "The Emperor and the Assassin", no matter how many they try.

Please, lets not see Mainland China's cinema turn into another Hong Kong, or even another Hollywood

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nogard64 writes:
on Dec 06 2006 11:58 AM

yeah asian cinema is so bad that Scorsese remade Internal Affairs almost frame by frame? The countless horror remakes, QT completely ripped off Asian Cinema in KB, And Universal still has remake right to Oldboy and still in talks of a remake.

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adamtstop writes:
on Dec 06 2006 02:13 PM

troll alert-----> nogard64.

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GreenBastard writes:
on Dec 06 2006 06:36 PM

I love Asian Cinema but these Jet Li movies just seem to be more of the same?
After Crouching Tiger made it big he just seems to crap out these huge boring movies that all seem to be very similar? At least his Hollywood stuff isnt boring.

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do_u_art writes:
on Dec 06 2006 06:55 PM

the... same?! um, no. i'm not going to cite examples because i'm lazy. just trust me on it.

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osiris3657 writes:
on Dec 06 2006 08:38 PM

This sounds cool, but like the first poster said, what's up with the "Fearless is Jet Li's last martial arts epic" etc?

Oh well, whatever.

This should be awesome.

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lpbreeze writes:
on Dec 06 2006 10:15 PM

Maybe cinema there has peaked. But only for a while then it will go back up again. But they really do seem to be rehashing the same stories.

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