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100Few Hollywood action pictures are half as exciting or ravishing.
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100Everything about its scale is epic.
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91This multistoried historical plot is packed with almost three hours of nuances and hidden meanings, and the slippery smiles and sly innuendoes often seem lost in translation.
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90A stirring, thought-provoking feat of filmmaking, accomplished in every facet.
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90A stunner -- as big and messy as a war, as small and perfect as a diamond.
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90This is a powerful story and a splendid spectacle.
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88Has a mixture of strengths and limitations often found in historical epics: lots of eye-filling action and spectacle, little in the way of psychology or human interest.
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88Based on the true story of the first emperor of unified China, could be downsized and told as an American Western.
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88It's a more intelligent and dimensional epic than, say, "Anna and the King." Emperor is worth every single penny.
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88As savage and as epic as film gets.
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80The sheer size of the production dwarfs the human drama.
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80For those with a taste for epics that integrate the historical and the intimate.
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80It's epic in every sense of the word, and like most of Chen's historical dramas, not easy to follow.
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75The look of the film is first class, with muted colors but deep textures, the opposite of historical kitsch.
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70Crammed with enough melodrama to fill several soap operas.
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70A string of striking set pieces hung on a dramatically shaky clothesline.
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67Quite long and violent enough to have made several critics squirm in their seats during a recent press screening.
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63Meanders along in a confused, confusing way for what feels like hours.
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63A gorgeous, gory epic, is a blow-your-mind masterpiece about the emperor who ruled more than 2,000 years ago.
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60Solid middlebrow entertainment, a vast period epic with an almost DeMillean taste for excess.
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60It's sumptuous, archaic, and longer than a firehouse ladder.
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58A historical drama as static as it is stately.
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50A bit hard on the posterior, it is definitely easy on the eyes.
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47Strains our patience with overacting and photography so sumptuous you can't help but ponder why so much bloodshed and mayhem is being so expertly prettified.
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38A quagmire that reportedly has undergone multiple edits to reach its current incomprehensible state.
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PatC.7Long & sometimes hard to follow, but worthwhile.