Kong saan mei yan (An Empress and the Warriors) (The Kingdom and the Beauty) (2008)
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Cast
as Muyong Xuehu
as Princess Fei-Er
as Don Lanquan
as Wu Ba
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Incredibly refreshing! This movie has the perfect balance of character development, and action. It borrows heavily from nearly every genre, and culture, without getting too muddled. It's a beautifully shot, beautifully costumed movie, that has a fairytale quality. Wonderful.
Super Reviewer
Wonderful Hong Kong tale set in a time before the unification of the middle kingdom... and romantic. Although the Asian-action genre has largely worn out its novelty value since the phenomenal Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon brought it to the mainstream, the legion of eastern cinema buffs will love this big budget showcase of Hong Kong martial arts. Following in the tradition of sumptuous, pseudo-historical martial arts epics Hero and Red Cliff. Donnie Yen in the last scene is just the Mars and there have never been a character in the cinematic history as heroic as him!

Super Reviewer
An ambitious general assassinates his king, but when his daughter is appointed successor he attempts a coup to wrest power from her. Yet another pretender to Crouching Tiger's throne, An Empress And The Warriors probably looks great in the trailers. Some impressive art design means that the costumes and sets are very attractive and there are a couple of decent action sequences, but underneath this film is just another martial arts B-movie with window dressing. Stealing ideas from both Crouching Tiger and Gladiator, the script is so lacking in subtlety and sophistication it reminded me of a bad Disney cartoon. The peformances of all the central characters are so wooden thay make a Thunderbirds puppet look multi layered and versatile, the constant and overbearing soundtrack lurches from pomposity to schmaltz in pretty much the same way as the plot does and the dialogue is so corny it might as well have crop circles cut into it. Melodramatic, episodic and occasionally laughable (see the jaw droppingly lame hot air balloon sequence) I'm afraid that as nice as it is to look at, the beauty of this Empress is only skin deep.

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