seriously when the reviews said the promise was bad, i didn't know the bad-ness started straight away... geez.. i thought 15 million was spent on this? what happened to the special effects?! why was everything so fakish like the circular palace and the underwater scenes? surely the money could be put to better use?
if that wasn't bad enough, i think chen kaige didn't quite know what he was aiming for in his movie.. he tried to put together some artistic, mysterious, cryptic tale with matrixy effects, somewhat like combining the artistry of colours in Zhang Yimou's Hero with the fighting sequences akin to Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and add the mysterious element of Legend to form the promise...
more like promise to flop... geez.
i guess you can figure how bad the movie reeks when a typical melodramatic scene od the hero dying leaves people laughing and questioning instead..
seriously, it didn't quite make sense, the backdrops were painfully fake and the fighting scenes completely misleading.. what's the point then?
here's a tip to future chinese directors.. don't think you got a lot of money to splurge on movies and make beautiful sets then go and create some crappish mystical story with weak characters and attempt to enthrall audiences or create a blockbuster ala LOTR or Narnia.
it does. not. work. please spare the effort. and spare us the torture.
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