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House of Flying Daggers

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Artist: Weiping Zhang, William Kong, Zhenyan Zhang, Bin Wang, Feng Li
Director: Yimou Zhang
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Release Date: April 2005
UPC: 043396091788
List Price: ~~$14.94~~

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Summary:
Set in the waning days of the Tang Dynasty, two police deputies try to save a dancer, who has ties to a revolutionary faction known as the House of Fl

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Average Customer Rating:

I *hate* this movie!

Customer Rating:

I *hate* this movie! I saw the rating it had on Amazon and I read the description on the back of the box and I thought the movie sounded *awesome*! Then I ended up getting it for really cheap on Blu-ray (for which the quality is not exactly stellar) and was met with one of the most unpleasant-to-watch movies I've seen in a while.

The movie starts off great. I was very much intrigued by the story and the fight scene in the beginning is, I think, pretty cool. But as the movie progresses and the love story unfolds between the two characters, I start enjoying the movie less and less until it finally bottoms out at the end with the conclusion of a stupid fight made stupid by the love story that sparked it. The love story for this movie is wretchedly terrible! I was not pulled in in the slightest and I thought it was absolutely unrealistic. The love story is a classic example of a bad love story where all of the characters make stupid decisions and then suffer the melodramatic consequences of their actions. The whole mess infuriated me. Not only that, but the movie is *extremely* drawn out. I was fighting the urge to fall asleep the whole time and was begging the movie to end. Now, there is an interesting twist in the movie that I really liked, but it didn't make the rest of the movie any better.

Also, another point of disappointment in the movie that I want to talk about is the fight scenes. The fight scene in the beginning is, as I said before, pretty cool. But the vast majority of the subsequent fight scenes are very bland for me. They aren't very impressive to watch nor are they exciting. Another problem I had is that the fighting felt very infrequent. Now, I'm not saying that a martial arts film has to have constant fighting in it, but that fighting should *drive* the story. This movie succeeds on that part, but the story is so drawn out that the fighting itself gets lost in the mess and becomes a victim of the drawn out nature of the movie along with the bad love story. Not only that, but I really felt that there were a lot of cuts in the fight scenes and, in general, they didn't look realistic. I couldn't get pulled into something that looks so fake. And the CG with the flying daggers? That's just really unrealistic and further contributes to my dislike of this movie.

In summary: Verbally, I cannot fully express my hate for this movie. The love story was bad and, to me, was very unrealistic and even ridiculous at times. This movie was a love story first and a martial arts film third or fourth. The fight scenes were downright terrible and I regret paying any amount of money for this movie. I never want to watch this movie again.

Excellent movie	Customer Rating:
good, and include spanish lenguage (español iberico, no latino...pero los sub estan bien)...so i good for me.

Brilliant Cinematography and much much more	Customer Rating:
I keep this short and sweet,I loved this film with it's brilliant cinematography. It's stunning, Explosive and Spectacular. A brilliant martial art film and the visual effects are really good. Anyway the storyline is good as well. A very good film one of the best around and a must buy for any true movie fan.

bad quality	Customer Rating:
rented hd , have fios connection 25/15 always stream good hd, but lately amazon's quality has been droppn down to below sd quality, when i paid more money to watch hd i know its not my connection, amazon you need to fix whatever it is dropping hd quality out

Beautiful, powerful, tragic

Customer Rating:

There's much that's beautiful in this movie: the actors, their acting, their costumes and makeup, the natural landscapes, the pacing, etc.

And the movie is also quite powerful. The many martial arts scenes are indeed artistic and they manage to blend in elements of surreal fantasy without coming across as tacky, a triangle of romance unfolds, and, more generally, the movie is able to elicit a wide range of emotions, both simple and complex, subtle and intense.

All of this makes for a great movie in that distinctive Chinese style, but it's also dinstinctively Chinese in another way: it moves along nicely with plenty of action which builds a feeling of hope, but then everything comes tragically crashing down at the end. This is a movie where someone can effectively die twice (!), thus amplifying our feelings of loss and grief even beyond their normally painful levels.

While some people might "like" this sort of tragic ending (which is very reminiscent of ancient Greek tragedy), I found that it cancelled much of my enjoyment of the movie prior to the ending, hence my rating of 4 stars rather than 5.

If you're OK with tragic endings and/or like Chinese movies, I can certainly recommend this movie, but beware if you have a need for the classic American happy ending.