Excellent photography end up a lousy movie

Rating: 2/10 (30 September 2004)

Meretricious, impressive only in appearance. This movie use a imaginary story to reverse a previous judgment about a tyrant, King of Qin. It is OK that director has his own view, but when he tries to change the tradition, he need a better reasoning. There are so many details against the real history 1. No wonder Qin always win, because they never cherish their sword..., there is less than 10 people in the town, Chin army shot 100000000 . They are so rich.... 2. The cloth, setting is not even close to real situation. I don't understand why the hairstyle of King of Qin is copied from the common solider. And suddenly I realized that King of Qin loves his people so much. So much that his hair is not king style but a common solider.
Of course, this is Kung Fu genre, not a documentary; there should be imaginative part in the films. But my point is, when the director want "preach" or he want to convince us that King of Qin is good. It is a serious topic; he shouldn't use such a fictitious story and so many inconsistent part. How could believe his point of view about the king when this movie is totally not loyal to history? The basic theme of this movie is ridiculous. And director spend so many effort to show "Chinese style movie". The Namless and Broken sword has 2 imaginary fights, which are so ludicrous. Because their fighting skill is 2 high to use real combat, so they have to use imagination. Then why director still use reall combat to depict the process of fighting? I have to say this director is really lack of creativity but try to told "foreigner" what is Chinese "Zhen". And it proved to be a failure. Chan is a good director, especially in scene and color setting. But this film is only a good Chinese painting, I can¡¦t find any Chinese culture behind.