I eagerly waited for this movie for a year and when I saw a poster of it in KL in Dec 13, my hopes were high when I knew it would be screened soon.
Starring the big threes of Hong Kong entertainment industry Chow Yun Fatt, Aaron Kwok, Donnie Yen and others such as Peter Ho, Gigi Leung, the movie was more CGI effects than anything else. There wasn't much real acting and many real actors. Everything was flying here and there in heaven and chaos was literally everywhere.
It was such a huge letdown that I won't even begin to list them here although I must grumble that the budget was undoubtedly big on special effects and the storyline was so, so weak. Like a friend said, they had no money left to hire more real actors after the extravagant expenditure on special effects. I must say that even though I found the earlier Stephen Chow takes "A Chinese Odyssey - Part One (Pandora's Box) and Part Two (Cinderella)" in 1995 starring Stephen Chow himself, Athena Chu, Ng Man-Tat, Law Kar-Ying, Karen Mok etc on the same subject lame, they were at least entertaining and memorable to this very day. This remake in comparison, was just a big time disappointment.
I was so busy recently that I didn't manage to post much these few weeks. So here goes.
Directed by Stephen Fung and produced by him and Daniel Wu, this first part of a trilogy stars the newcomer Yuan Xiaochao, who is China's wushu gold medal winner at the Asian Games 2010, Angelababy, Taiwan's Eddie Peng, and Hong Kong's Tony Leung with cameos by Stephen Fung himself and Shu Qi.
I guess Stephen loves to make such light-hearted movies, as evident by some of his other earlier productions, but I prefer period martial-arts movies to be more serious. Hence, I wasn't quite bowled over by the story-telling although the animation scenes were quite interesting. I read quite a bit about her but this was the first Angelababy movie I watched and I do think she has a refreshing face.
Well, the second part starring Daniel Wu and China's Feng Shaofeng is coming out soon, so there is no need to wait too long for the continuation.
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