I enjoyed this movie so much, I personally guarantee you will find watching it an enjoyable experience, or your money back.īATTLE OF WITS is a film in which Andy Lau attempts to defend a city under siege from a huge army camped outside the walls. I rated the movie an 8, but if fractions or tenths were available a rating of 8.5 would be more accurate. I can't wait to watch it again with the commentary track provided by Bey Logan, HK film expert/critic. The fighting and battle scenes are impressive, intriguing and innervating. All supporting actors are equally believable in their parts. Andy Lau plays the philosophical voice of reason quite well. Story, script, plot, pacing, acting, casting, directing, cinematography, production design, costumes, music/soundtrack, action, special effects are all two thumbs up and quite exceptional. One glaring goof-up is all I can come up with- they put a terrible wig on one of the minor/co-stars- that's it! Everything else falls on the positive side. "Battle of the Warriors" has already been expertly described by a few of the other critics here so I'll just tell you what I liked, or didn't like about it. But give an old movie lover a break because at my age it takes a minute to get the brain to focus- speaking wishfully, of course. And, if you have read this far you are probably saying, who cares, and I have to admit you would be justified in thinking that way. Lately, I find myself looking at the Asian market films before Hollywood's latest comic book hero offerings. I now own a fair number of Asian DVD's ranging from some Bollywood Classics, Shaw Brothers standards and a variety of Japanese movies, new and old, including every Kurosawa film. The more I explore the more I find to my liking. That is until picking up on Quentin Tarantino's passion around twenty years ago. I'm a late comer to Asian films having seen few more than the Bruce Lee, Sonny Chiba films of the seventies, and the few odd Jet Li and Jackie Chan movies of the eighties and nineties. **NO SPOILERS** In all aspects of film making, and by any standard, this is an epic production that works at transporting us back to 4th Century feudal China.
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