Die sieben Schwerter (2005)
34KDie sieben Schwerter: Directed by Hark Tsui. With Leon Lai, Donnie Yen, Charlie Yeung, Honglei Sun. Seven warriors come together to protect a village from a diabolical General.
“Tsui Harku0026#39;s u0026#39;Chat Gimu0026#39; is visually wonderful. The breathtaking and landscape, the beautiful set design and colourful frame, the brilliant composition of images, the mesmerizing cinematography and skilled editing superbly come together. Hark parallelu0026#39;s good vs evil and beautiful vs awful very well. He clearly takes his inspiration from the masterworks of Kurosawa (even though this film is an adaptation) and, in my opinion, produces something better than the likes of Ang Leeu0026#39;s overrated u0026#39;Wo Hu Cang Longu0026#39;.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe only minor drawback, Iu0026#39;d say, is that the story is not anything new and it is not as impactive as Kurosawau0026#39;s work. Then again, Hark manages to bring his own style and give it a unique presentation and u0026#39;Chat Gimu0026#39; by no means is pretentious piece of work. The subplots fit well together and the characters are interesting. Perhaps a few could have been further developed? However, the actors do an adequate job. The fight scenes are not too many but theyu0026#39;re appropriately set within the context of the story. They are very well choreographed and do not look over the top as is the case in many films (u0026#39;Wo Hu Cang Longu0026#39; being an example of such). Unlike other films of this genre, this one is very human.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eItu0026#39;s a bit funny how I got hold of the DVD. My brother owned it and I was teasing him that Iu0026#39;ll take the DVD and keep it (he gets very irritated when I do that) and to my surprise he told me that I can have it. Now Iu0026#39;m glad I get to keep the film. Hark put a lot of heart in the making of this beautiful film. Itu0026#39;s certainly one of the better films from the Wuxia genre (one of the best Iu0026#39;ve seen so far). Itu0026#39;s not only visually pleasing, it has a heart of gold :).”
