|
|
Seven Swords
Average Customer Rating:  
List Price:
$19.95
Asia Trips Trips Price:
$14.99
Your Savings: $ 4.96 ( 25% )
Subject To Change Without Notice
Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 2 days
Manufacturer: Weinstein Company
Starring: Donnie Yen, Leon Lai, Charlie Yeung, Liwu Dai, Chia-Liang Liu
Directed By: Hark Tsui
|
|
|
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
EAN: 0796019797580
Format: Closed-captioned
Label: Weinstein Company
Manufacturer: Weinstein Company
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Weinstein Company
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2007-01-16
Running Time: 153
Studio: Weinstein Company
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
|
|
|
|
|
|
Editorial Reviews:
|
In the early 1600's, the Manchurians have taken over sovereignty of China and established the Ching Dynasty. The newly set-up government immediately imposes a Martial Arts Ban, forbidding the practice of martial arts altogether in order to gain control and order. A group of soldiers travel the country seeking out those who would flout the law. A swordsman and his disciples decide to take the fight to the enemy, following a plea from a group of villagers. The SEVEN SWORDS is formed and their heroic journey begins. As they lead the entire village to the road of a safer place, they discover there is a trator amongst them. Between this narrow gap of life and death, the situation is further complicated by the blossoms of love.
|
|
|
Spotlight customer reviews:
|
Customer Rating:
Summary: Suspensefful + Splendid scenery + Spectacular fighting + Non-stop action + No time for love and character development.
Comment: This movie shows it has a big budget. It contains splendid scenery. The giant mountains with snow look beautiful and scary. The fighting scenes are fast, bloody and furious with strange weapons. Sometimes it's hard to see what's going on. The action is non-stop. It has quite a few suspenseful scenes.
My only complaint is it gives no time to love and character develpment. They exist in the movie but for a very short time. As a result, they can't make me feel anything.
It's worth renting but not buying.
Customer Rating:
Summary: An Ambitious Story. Maybe Too Ambitious.
Comment: This was a movie I wanted to like more than I actually did. The production quality, and the cinematography grabs the hand of this movie and leads it down the road of masterpiece. But it's either the story or the editing that walks with the two left feet along the way. This movie probably needed another hour in order to pull off what it wanted to accomplish -- which is be an Action Story, and not just an Action Movie. The Director had the admirable goal of making us an emotional spectator, but because he's burdened with placing Seven Protagonists behind the Seven Swords, he has only a handful of minutues to offer any kind of substantial backstory to each character. There were times when the subtext of some character seemed to have just emerged out of nowhere. I'd give examples, but to be honest, I can't identify any of the multi-characters by name. so I'll just say, as an example, that "some guy" whose backstory was that of a farmer (I think) seemed to be pretty broken up when it was decided that he had to set his horses free. Especially, the Horse JoyLuck, whose name I can remember. By the way, I'm *not* being sarcastic here. That was really how I approached that scene, since prior to it, I can't recall any build up. Maybe I missed it.
Amazingly, despite the cloudiness of the JoyLuck scene, I was still somewhat moved by it, a sure credit to the cinematography and the heart breaking score by Kenji Kawai. Both do an amazing job of compensating for what I just couldn't gather from the story. I have to believe that juggling seven characters in the writers/directors world is as dangerous as juggling seven swords. And despite my clueless detachment from the motivation of the characters, I enjoyed watching them when they went into battle. My conclusion is that the Writers (Three of them) and the Director knew what they were doing, they just didn't have enough screen-time to pull it off.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Pleasant
Comment: it's not exactly great, it definatly didn't look too fake as, crouching tiger hidden dragon. i first watched this movie while i was in afghanistan, so i recommended it to my cousin. we now both enjoy this movie, because of the fact that they tried to keep away from making people fly.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not impressed
Comment: "Seven Swords" is a bit bland, to be honest. Great director, nice sound and look, Donnie Yen, the magnificent Lau Kar Leung. It has the right ingredients, but simply fails to make an impression. Not enough character development, silly fighting and less than amazing dialogue. There is perhaps too much fiddling around with the look of the 'baddies', who look sort of ridiculous.
I wouldn't see it again and wouldn't recommend it to anyone who is not absolute genre- or Yen-fans. 2,5 stars.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not what you expect from Donnie Yen
Comment: I heard so many good things about this movie. I was disapointed. If your looking for good Kung Fu action from Donnie Yen you might want to check out Kung Fu Master, & Return of Kung Fu Master. circleoflifekungfu.com
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
