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Warriors of Heaven and Earth
Sony Pictures Classics
MPAA RATING: R for violence
Starring
Jiang Wen,
Kiichi Nakai,
Wang Xueqi,
Zhao Wei,
Hasi Bagen,
He Tao,
Harrison Liu,
and
Wang Deshun
In the tradition of Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, Warriors of Heaven and Earth weaves a thread of battle, comradeship and honor. Set in the ferocious Gobi desert, the story follows two first-class warriors and master swordsmen. (Sony Pictures Classics)
| GENRE(S): |
Action
|
Adventure
|
Drama
|
Foreign
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| WRITTEN BY: |
He Ping
Zhang Rui
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
He Ping
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: December 7, 2004
Theatrical: September 3, 2004
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| RUNNING TIME: |
114 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
China / Hong Kong |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
Mandarin (with English subtitles) |
Original title "Tian di ying xiong"

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
70
The Hollywood Reporter
Andrew Sun
A not particularly satisfying ending that involves silly CG effects. On the other hand, the acting is uniformly compelling, the fight sequences are energetic, and, as character drama, the material is especially enthralling.

70
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
May be a period piece but there's nothing antiquated about it except an overly populated, initially hard-to-follow plot.

67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
The film plays like a Hollywood-influenced Japanese samurai movie, though nothing as subtle as Kurosawa's best, and with white subtitles that often are hard to read against the white of the Gobi.

63
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
More of a sand-and-noodles western set in the Far East.

63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
The spaghetti western may be dead, but the noodle eastern looks to be alive and well.

63
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Falters when it gets involved with supernatural gobbledygook.

63
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
A magnificent looking and occasionally very silly Chinese Western.

60
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Thoroughly old-fashioned entertainment.

60
The New York Times
Ned Martel
The best case for Warriors is its cinematic time travels and its peek into the natural wildness of a long-closed countryside.

50
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
In spite of the unavoidable disappointment that comes from raised expectations (and lowered elevations), it's clumsy storytelling that ultimately keeps Warriors grounded.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
Eminently watchable, with enough majestic vistas and heroic derring-do to get by. It could have been so much more.

50
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Impressively filmed but not dramatic enough to justify its length.

50
Variety
Derek Elley
A handsome although dramatically muddled Noodle Western.

50
Village Voice
Mark Holcomb
Comfortably familiar. It lacks the tension between grandeur and intimacy that characterizes the films it apes.

50
LA Weekly
David Chute
The buildup is so compelling in this "Chinese Western" by He Ping (Swordsman in Double Flag Town) that its thunderous anticlimax of an ending can almost be forgiven. Almost.


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