The young director Hark Tsui grew up dreaming to be a filmmaker since tender age, then he went to Texas to study, returning aftermaths at Hong Kong making several independent short movies, soon he was invited by major Hong Kong's studio to do a boldest project, his crew were sent to Japan to learn Japanese's special effects, whereof he found it outdated, thus the studio managed to contract foreign VfX's experts from America to aid him in this picture which took a year to be finish.
Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain had a huge budge, therefore some famous Chinese actors were contracted for briefly period of time for a day, meanwhile the main newest fixed cast had to acting full time often lead to exhaustion due longest day-journey, the plot is based in Chinese folklore over a younger Chinese warrior that gets in touch with the several Chinese Prince, Princess, of heaven and the underground, to keep the peace they must help those semi-gods to uphold the harmony on the surface, this movie has a breathtaking multi-colors visual and special effects added by outstanding lightning-fast cuts between the takes, mostly of them the viewers stay puzzled about synchronicity of the long sequences.
Otherwise the plot is too much confused, letting the audience lost over so fast shot built in with too much talking disallowing a proper insight over the storyline, aside Hark Tsui be a genius he didn't get a correct assembly due each take didn't match with next, then the picture stayed mind-blogging most of time, letting the audience trying figures out over such muddled story, nothing makes sense at all.
According some hearsays this one was the forerunner of the upcoming "Big Trouble in Little China" indeed there are many commonality between them, whence the American feature was intelligible!!
Thanks for reading.
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First watch: 2023 / Source: DVD / How many: 1 / Rating: 7.
Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain had a huge budge, therefore some famous Chinese actors were contracted for briefly period of time for a day, meanwhile the main newest fixed cast had to acting full time often lead to exhaustion due longest day-journey, the plot is based in Chinese folklore over a younger Chinese warrior that gets in touch with the several Chinese Prince, Princess, of heaven and the underground, to keep the peace they must help those semi-gods to uphold the harmony on the surface, this movie has a breathtaking multi-colors visual and special effects added by outstanding lightning-fast cuts between the takes, mostly of them the viewers stay puzzled about synchronicity of the long sequences.
Otherwise the plot is too much confused, letting the audience lost over so fast shot built in with too much talking disallowing a proper insight over the storyline, aside Hark Tsui be a genius he didn't get a correct assembly due each take didn't match with next, then the picture stayed mind-blogging most of time, letting the audience trying figures out over such muddled story, nothing makes sense at all.
According some hearsays this one was the forerunner of the upcoming "Big Trouble in Little China" indeed there are many commonality between them, whence the American feature was intelligible!!
Thanks for reading.
Resume:
First watch: 2023 / Source: DVD / How many: 1 / Rating: 7.