With this movie, Zhimou brings us another epic martial arts movie. Yet another epic martial arts movie. Having seen "Hero" and "House of flying dagger" I find this one to be the most empty vessel of them all. There is plot, a lot of it, but why would you as a viewer care. There are relationships but they are hardly developed and get "killed" out of the movie. And then the martial arts. It's hard to see the choreography so it gets a little boring apart from the first scene. I'm hoping Yimou gets back to the scaled-down stories of his starting years, because all this glitter and gold has been done before with more substance behind it.
Review of Curse of the Golden Flower
