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Generally favorable reviews- based on 5 Ratings

  • 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.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 25
  2. Negative: 1 out of 25
  1. Few Hollywood action pictures are half as exciting or ravishing.
  2. Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    80
    The sheer size of the production dwarfs the human drama.
  3. 60
    Solid middlebrow entertainment, a vast period epic with an almost DeMillean taste for excess.
  4. A quagmire that reportedly has undergone multiple edits to reach its current incomprehensible state.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. PatC.
    7
    Long & sometimes hard to follow, but worthwhile.

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