Well, it is actually a nice movie. Some good fighting scenes and nice music.
BUT, it is only a nice movie, if you don't know anything about the actual novel or history this movie should be based on. For people who know the novel or history, you can say the movie is just painful to watch, at least for me. You ask why? Let me give you an comparison: Since it should be based on a novel, let's take LotR. So, you know the story of LotR, you read the novel and you just love it. Now they make a movie out of it and it will be like that: Legolas is the main character(which is fine, since we all like him). And it is about his life, how he should be a great, undefeated warrior(oh, and he is wearing a Roman armor). He started as a pawn under King Aragorn and worked all his way up and during that he hat an fight with Boromir and Theoden. And at the end he fought against the granddaughter of Sauron(you think: what the heck? I have the same thought, when I watched this movie), who is leading Sauron's army(when she was young, Sauron took her to battles with him) and ended up loosing to her and dies. Ah, by the way. Gandalf looks like a beggar and fortune teller. So you see my problem with the movie? It doesn't really have anything to do with the novel. It just borrowed the names and some events.
So, if you don't know the novel or the story of the Three Kingdom, go ahead and watch it. It's pretty amusing. But if you DO know the story and want a movie which fits to it. Don't watch it!!! It will destroy your image of the heroes in the novel. Wait for the Red Cliff movie this summer =D
So it is only my opinion. Thanks for reading it.
BUT, it is only a nice movie, if you don't know anything about the actual novel or history this movie should be based on. For people who know the novel or history, you can say the movie is just painful to watch, at least for me. You ask why? Let me give you an comparison: Since it should be based on a novel, let's take LotR. So, you know the story of LotR, you read the novel and you just love it. Now they make a movie out of it and it will be like that: Legolas is the main character(which is fine, since we all like him). And it is about his life, how he should be a great, undefeated warrior(oh, and he is wearing a Roman armor). He started as a pawn under King Aragorn and worked all his way up and during that he hat an fight with Boromir and Theoden. And at the end he fought against the granddaughter of Sauron(you think: what the heck? I have the same thought, when I watched this movie), who is leading Sauron's army(when she was young, Sauron took her to battles with him) and ended up loosing to her and dies. Ah, by the way. Gandalf looks like a beggar and fortune teller. So you see my problem with the movie? It doesn't really have anything to do with the novel. It just borrowed the names and some events.
So, if you don't know the novel or the story of the Three Kingdom, go ahead and watch it. It's pretty amusing. But if you DO know the story and want a movie which fits to it. Don't watch it!!! It will destroy your image of the heroes in the novel. Wait for the Red Cliff movie this summer =D
So it is only my opinion. Thanks for reading it.