Flying Swords of Dragon Gate R
Jet Li and Tsui Hark are back together.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 2 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 2, 2012
- Originally Released: 2011
- Label: Indomina
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Jet Li, Xun Zhou, Kun Chen, Gwei Lun Mei & Li Yuchun | |
| Directed by | Hark Tsui | |
| Edited by | Chi Wai Yau | |
| Screenplay by | Hark Tsui | |
| Director of Photography: | Sung Fai Choi |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Tsui's imagemaking skills are a savvy mix of modern-day kineticism and old-school movie composition pleasures.
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 3/5 --
Amounts to a lavishly mounted series of airborne sword fights - each one more spectacular (and silly) than the last ...
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Time Out
This treatment boasts plenty of swashbuckling action and visual flair without a compelling story or characters to fill in the narrative gaps.
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Cinemalogue
Despite the movie's excessive length and incomprehensible plot, Tsui is still one of the world's absolute best at action and fight sequences; they move fast, but they're dazzlingly fluid and smooth.
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Combustible Celluloid
Rating: 2/5 --
It's fun in the moment, but hardly one for the ages.
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Little White Lies
Rating: 2/5 --
Flying Swords has style to burn but a story that's both too chaotic for its own good and at times overly familiar.
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Austin Chronicle
Rating: 3/4 --
The plot is secondary. "Flying Swords" is to be seen for its eye-popping action.
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New York Post
Product Description:
Ming Dynasty general Chow Wai-On (Jet Li) clashes with nefarious eunuch Yu Hua-Tian (Chen Kun), but the real action begins when the feuding pair encounter Lin Yan-Qiu (Zhou Xun) at a secluded desert outpost known as the Dragon Gate Inn.
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Product Info
- UPC: 883476091242
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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