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Zhen · San guo wu shuang (2021)
If you love the game this is a much watch
Watching the movie was like watching a live action version of the game. Same over the top fights. The attacks of the heroes are directly from the game.
This was a real treat to see as most live action versions of games are almost always nothing like their counterpart.
I am a major fan of the game and of the history it is taken from. I will hope there is another movie to follow this one.
I would read critics interpretation of this movie yet most of them probably never played the game and will compare this to other movies like crouching tiger or kill bill.
They will probably say this ones story in its simplistic format is a bore. There is no real court intrigue or character progression. It is a fight from start to end beginning with the yellow turban war ending at the battle of the pass and capital.
The story goes on yet not in this movie. Lu Bu is as powerful in the movie as in the game and history. He is a dominating force that like the game when you seen him coming you knew either to run or hope you have allies to fight him because on your own you would die.
Cao Cao started the way the movie shows and did eventually become a general.
The three brothers was a neat touch. In the book the ride to the alliance to join with it to fight the enemy of the empire. They were represented well.
There were only a few problems but only if you believed the movie should be ground in realism and not a video game adaptation or a Chinese martial arts movie.
I will be looking for this movie on blu ray to own and again hope there are more to follow. Fun action packed movie.
The Survival Game (2012)
i enjoyed this movie
i watched so many movies that before i turn it on i know if it is low budget or not. this was low budget so i didn't expect a lot. i could complain like others about what they consider problems, but having the biggest bad-ass of the bad guys sucking on a lollipop i find refreshingly different. the good guys not picking up the weapons, i'm sorry but the average person trying to be killed with adrenalin pumping through there bodies clouding judgment would not think to scramble through the bushes and search for a gun or knife dropped. acting skills i had no problem with, the story fine, the abilities of bad guys jumping up really fast or fighting really well drunk was really my only problem with this flick, but how many movies don't have this problem. i did want to know more of the characters, like the main man who could fight really well. who was he, military? so i give this movie a 7 it would of been an 8 if the drunk would of sucked as a fighter. i found this one better than most high budget movies that just bore the crap out of me.