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An exiled detective is recruited to solve a series of mysterious deaths that threaten to delay the inauguration of Empress Wu.
In 689 A.D., the Empress Wu Zetian is building a 66 m high statue of Buddha for her inauguration as the first empress of China under the objections and conspiracy of the other clans. When the engineer responsible for the construction mysteriously dies by spontaneous combustion, the superstitious workers are afraid since the man removed the good luck charms from the main pillar. There is an investigation of Pei Donglai and another investigator that also dies after withdrawing the amulets. Empress Wu assigns her loyal assistant Shangguan Jing&#39;er to release the exiled Detective Dee from his imprisonment to investigate with Donglai and Jing&#39;er the mystery of the deaths. They ride in a mystic and epic adventure to unravel the mystery.
After watching this, I ran to IMDb to see just how much the American distributor had cut out of it. For some reason, many American distributors who buy up martial arts movies think that story doesn&#39;t really matter, so they should be able to cut all of it out. Well, if there were cuts, IMDb doesn&#39;t know about them. It lists just the one runtime of 119 minutes. So how is this movie so incoherent? Apparently that&#39;s just how it is. Andy Lau plays an inspector in mytho-historical China who has been imprisoned since he challenged the ascension of the new Empress (Carina Lau, who, back in the day, starred in many Wong Kar-Wai films). After a mysterious crime which resulted in several people spontaneously combusting, the Empress recruits Lau to investigate, teamed with an albino, Chao Deng, and the Empress&#39; personal guard, Bingbing Li. Deng and Li have their own loyalties. So, okay, the story up to here is followable, even if there is a completely unexplained talking deer (they&#39;ll deal with it later). Then it just goes nuts. At first, this is amusing. I&#39;m all for nuts. At one point they have to go find a guy named Donkey Wang, which is awesome. Then... a whole bunch of incomprehensible crap happens, and the film completely lost me. The story seems cut to pieces, but even worse is the way the action sequences are edited. I had no idea what the heck was going on. Eventually, I got so bored I nodded off (not before Andy Lau beat up a couple of CGI deer, which was certainly worth seeing). The whole thing seemed like a huge mess to me.
I got a kick out of or from this film, and it&#39;s definitely better than a lot of what plays in movie cinemas. I looked at the movie listing for a local cinema that shows 9 movies every week, if not every day, some months ago. Not a single 1 of the 9 had/has any favorable reviews on the WWW; not among reviews I checked anyway. So, of course I didn&#39;t go. When paying around $9 to see a film, then it better be good.<br/><br/>I will add a little commentary about the closing paragraph of the review posted by Harry T. Yung from Hong Kong.<br/><br/>Quote: &quot;While the main focus of this movie is entertainment, it does have a historical perspective as Wu, the first empress of China, is among the most controversial historical figures. One thought-provoking question would be that if a depot is capable and the people general benefit, does it really matter if he or she is fiendishly cruel and ruthless? The movie misses a good opportunity to underscore this theme for the audience to ponder over. In the final scene when Dee pleads with the villain not to assassin Wu, the reason he gives is that the method of assassination employed would mean killing a lot of innocent people in the process. The movie would have gone up a notch if, instead, Dee points out that despite Wu&#39;s short-comings (including, sigh, being a woman), she is the best ruler they had at the time, and killing her would be doing the entire empire a disservice.&quot; 1) &quot;Wu&#39;s short-comings (including, sigh, being a woman)&quot;? Ugh. Ya gotta be kidding. Why is being a woman a short-coming? 2) What&#39;s the real history related to this film&#39;s story? What&#39;s factually based about the empress and the detective, plus the character who wanted to assassinate the empress? (Of course I know that the CGI and wires stuff didn&#39;t exist in the true history.) This isn&#39;t a discussion forum, so the questions are rhetorical. If someone posted answers, then there&#39;s no way to be notified about this, so the questions unfortunately remain of rhetorical genre.
Although it lacks the historical aura of classic Chinese wuxia backdrops, James Chiu's post-"Avatar" production design is memorably imaginative.
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