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Wong Kar-Wai
(Director, Writer, Producer)
Tung Wai
(Action Director)
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
Zhang Ziyi
Faye Wong
Gong Li
Maggie Cheung
Largely a waste of time for all concerned
- 4/10
(29 July 2005)
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Ang Lee
(Director)
Yuen Wo-Ping
(Action Director)
Zhang Ziyi
Chow Yun-Fat
Michelle Yeoh
Cheng Pei-Pei
Chang Chen
James Schamus
(Writer)
Very well rounded
- 9/10
(27 May 2001)
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Zhang Yimou
(Director)
Ching Siu-Tung
(Action Director)
Jet Li
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
Maggie Cheung
Zhang Ziyi
Donnie Yen
Chen Dao-Ming
Pretty special
- 9/10
(10 May 2003)
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Zhang Yimou
(Director)
Ching Siu-Tung
(Action Director)
Zhang Ziyi
Takeshi Kaneshiro
Andy Lau
Bill Kong
(Producer)
Beautiful to look at
- 7/10
(12 October 2004)
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Tsui Hark
(Director, Writer)
Yuen Wo-Ping
(Action Director)
Yuen Bun
(Action Director)
Yuen Shun-Yi
(Action Director)
Ekin Cheng
Louis Koo
aka ZU WARRIORS in the US (different cut?)
Sensory spectacle
- 7/10
(17 November 2001)
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Significantly edited for international release, and in all the wrong places - the first half, which builds up all the characters, is whittled down to virtually nothing whilst the second half, which is a bit too drawn out even in the original, is retained in full. The effect is to turn an epic war film into an action movie about a princess, and when the extended siege/battle comes you haven't built up enough interest in the characters to care about them, making its length seem even more excessive than in the original cut.
Superb epic
- 10/10
(16 May 2012)
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Sequel that completely misses the charms of the original
- 3/10
(12 January 2004)
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Lovely to look at
- 7/10
(03 December 2006)
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Wong Kar-Wai
(Director, Writer, Producer)
Yuen Wo-Ping
(Action Director)
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
Zhang Ziyi
Chang Chen
Zhao Ben-Shan
Incoherent and overblown
- 3/10
(07 April 2013)
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