- Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
- Release Date: Dec 17, 1999
- Starring: Fengyi Zhang, Li Gong, Zhou Sun
- Summary: Zhao (Gong Li) is a concubine in China in the 20th century BC who is sent by her lover to become the lover of his adversary, gain his confidence, and then secure an assassin who can eliminate him.
- Director: Kaige Chen
- Genre(s): Drama, History
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 19 out of 25
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Mixed: 5 out of 25
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Negative: 1 out of 25
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100Few Hollywood action pictures are half as exciting or ravishing.
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80The sheer size of the production dwarfs the human drama.
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60Solid middlebrow entertainment, a vast period epic with an almost DeMillean taste for excess.
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38A quagmire that reportedly has undergone multiple edits to reach its current incomprehensible state.
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Positive: 4 out of 4
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Mixed: 0 out of 4
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Negative: 0 out of 4
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PatC.7Long & sometimes hard to follow, but worthwhile.
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