a Korean film two to three years old sometimes refer to as Wushi....first film i bought in many years...highly recommended....reminded me of a mix between Braveheart/Saving Private Ryan type of film... Don't know how many people have actually heard of it but a good film with some depth to story and nicely choreographed action scenes
[ QUOTE ] akai said: a Korean film two to three years old sometimes refer to as Wushi....first film i bought in many years...highly recommended....reminded me of a mix between Braveheart/Saving Private Ryan type of film... Don't know how many people have actually heard of it but a good film with some depth to story and nicely choreographed action scenes [/ QUOTE ] There are 2 versions of this film. The Chinese one cuts out at least 20 minutes of character/story development from the Korean original. Unfortunately, I saw the Chinese edit so it was rather bland to me since nothing was explained well.
[ QUOTE ] KiwE said: Why? Don't throw stuff like that out without an explanation m8. /KiwE [/ QUOTE ] I think I might have seen the beginning part of the movie (if this indeed is the same movie). Remote possiblity of spoiler (I'll try to be vague) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chinese might be offended because they are portrayed as the double-crossing, back-stabbing, snobbish, bad guys in the movie. They are responsible for putting the Koreans in the situation that they end up in and leaving them to die. At least that's what I thought from watching the beginning. Maybe they did other terrible things during the remainder of the movie?
[ QUOTE ] Shou said: There are 2 versions of this film. The Chinese one cuts out at least 20 minutes of character/story development from the Korean original. Unfortunately, I saw the Chinese edit so it was rather bland to me since nothing was explained well. [/ QUOTE ] I think i have the edited version also...but i guess i was watching it for the first time in cantonese (thought it was a chinese film...) then notice that character conversations did not seem right. First time watching not overly impressed with story, but watching it a second time in original voices it was much better since i also got a second time to watch through the show and notice a little bit more of the characters and some depth to them...but you have to somewhat take the time to see it.....maybe that is why i never find out one of the subcharacter's name....maybe that got cut in the breviated version... ...either way i was impressed to see this type of action (no flying invincible stance)....but somewhat melodramatic though towards the end...
I prefer not to add to my initial comments, actually...I wasn't particularly offended, though I noted all the little things that were happening onscreen. However, some of my Chinese friends were really ticked off by the movie.