Hero (2002 film)
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Dec 16, 2004 · Indeed most of the action in the movie is designed not to produce death, but the pleasure of elegant ingenuity. The impossible is cheerfully welcome here. The fight in the bamboo grove inspires comparison with the treetop swordfight in "Crouching Tiger," but is magnificent in its own way.
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- Yimou Zhang
- PG-13
- Takeshi Kaneshiro
In HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS, an officer about to arrest a beautiful blind dancer who works in a brothel tells her that if she can win the "Echo Game" he will let her go. She is surrounded by 100 drums.
- Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhang Ziyi
- Zhang Yimou
- Sony Pictures
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Feb 7, 2007 · Flying Daggers is an excellent film that manages to balance out the wild excesses of its action with some surprisingly effective moments of tranquillity, romance and pathos.
As it stands House of Flying Daggers is a fine movie, never quite as good as Hero, and probably behind Crouching Tiger too, and maybe it goes on a bit too long, but it's far superior to most of the formulaic actioners Hollywood produces.
In 9th century China, a corrupt government wages war against a rebel army called the Flying Daggers. A romantic warrior breaks a beautiful rebel out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.
