- Summary:
- Director: Wai-keung Lau
- Genre(s): Action, Drama
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 7
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Mixed: 2 out of 7
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Negative: 4 out of 7
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75It’s doubtful that Scorsese will redo this new Lau thriller, which is OK because the Chinese original is all fans need.
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50The Guillotines expends most of its energy in its first 30 minutes, leaving the audience with roughly 90 minutes of soapy Qing Dynasty fan fiction.
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40The incrementally served up pieces never satisfactorily cohere. The blades fly as do the heads, but the movie remains disappointingly aground.
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38Despite the multitude of cinematic tricks the prolific Andrew Lau has up his sleeve, the film is a disappointingly rote entry in the wuxia pantheon.
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30An action fan could be forgiven for the medicinal taste that this slick but dissipating exercise leaves behind.
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30A corny saga of social and generational conflict, it's ultimately yet another Chinese period epic that functions as a thinly veiled treatise on the nobility of socialist equality.
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20All the solemnity is deadly: Not one of these superhuman gang members registers in memory, and you feel stiffed on gory giggles. Talk about having your chain yanked.
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