The Duel
Two Warriors In The Battle Of A Lifetime
From the director of The Storm Riders comes this stunning, incredible special effects swordplay epic blockbuster! The elusive "Sword Saint" (Played by superstar Andy Lau) requests a duel with "God of Sword" (Ekin Cheng from The Storm Riders) at the apex of the Forbidden City, to see who is the world's finest swordsman. As the date of the duel nears, however, trouble soon befall the Imperial town, from surprise attacks to a daring conspiracy against the emperor, until everything is revealed at the climactic, spectacular fight.
A jaw-dropping martial arts fantasy extravaganza in the tradition of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and The Matrix, The Duel breaks new cinematic ground with its stupendous visual effects and thrilling action sequences choreographed by the legendary Ching Siu Tung (Dragon Inn, Swordsman Two). Brace yourself for The Duel!
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Good modern HK film...but... - Pierre
As the previous reviewer said, one can really wonder if Hong Kong still can tell a good story.
The idea is very good, the fight scenes awesome and so are the characters. But the comic relief, my god. What is up with that.
Anyway if you think you'd like this movie, you'll probably like it because there isn't too much surprise (though the story has a few good twist and turns) it's basic modern martial arts stuff.
To be noted, there is not a single version of the audio track that isn't dubbed, even the mandarin and cantonese track. Puzzling.Very disappointed - Geekeagle
First off, the movie is based on a martial art (Wu Xia) novel that is one of my favourite, but they pretty much butchered the story and the essence of the novel in this movie. That said, the movie in itself is passable in my opinion (if one doesn't know the original story from the novel). What I don't get is the comic reliefs that seems to be out of place in this kind of film, making me wonder if the quality of HK movies have deteriorated so much over the years that they really don't make good movie and decent story telling like they used to. The funny jokes seems forced and did nothing to enhance the story. The costumes were great though, and the actings were passable. The special effects were not bad either. Another thing I don't understand is the audio languague. I always like to watch movie in its original language, if it is foreign, with subtitle. It is the same situation here, and since I speak both mandarin and cantonese, I would watch the Chinese movie in its original language rather than the dubbed version. However, this movie left me buffled, because some actors speaks mandarin and some cantonese. So at the beginning of the movie, I was constantly switching audio track since every now and then I would find that the mouth movements did not match the audio tracks. For this movie, I gave up after 15 minutes and watch the whole thing in cantonese. The reason? All the main casts (as in the three males) who had taken much screen time were from HK so they spoke cantonese, while pretty much all the other actors and actresses speaks mandarin. As you have noticed that annoyed me tremendously. And Andy Lau sometimes spoke cantonese and sometimes mandarin. I just don't get the audio track at all.
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Good modern HK film...but... - Pierre
As the previous reviewer said, one can really wonder if Hong Kong still can tell a good story.
The idea is very good, the fight scenes awesome and so are the characters. But the comic relief, my god. What is up with that.
Anyway if you think ...Very disappointed - Geekeagle
First off, the movie is based on a martial art (Wu Xia) novel that is one of my favourite, but they pretty much butchered the story and the essence of the novel in this movie. That said, the movie in itself is passable in my opinion (if one doesn't know the ...