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- 2013
- PG-13
- Distribution Workshop
- 1 h 42 m
- 2013
- PG-13
- Distribution Workshop
- 1 h 42 m
Summary In this fantasy film from action director Ching Siu-Tung, Jet Li stars as a sorcerer who fights for the life of a young herbalist who has fallen in love with a thousand-year-old White Snake disguised as a woman.
Directed By: Siu-Tung Ching
Written By: Tan Cheung
- 2013
- PG-13
- Distribution Workshop
- 1 h 42 m
- 2013
- PG-13
- Distribution Workshop
- 1 h 42 m
The Sorcerer and the White Snake
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Summary In this fantasy film from action director Ching Siu-Tung, Jet Li stars as a sorcerer who fights for the life of a young herbalist who has fallen in love with a thousand-year-old White Snake disguised as a woman.
Directed By: Siu-Tung Ching
Written By: Tan Cheung
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
41
14% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
57% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
29% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
A visually lavish epic fantasy that happily marries the latest advances in CGI and action techniques with ancient Chinese fable and a Buddhist atmosphere.
This China/Hong Kong co-production flips the formula: The fantastic images are solid, but the action is less substantial.
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Generally Favorable
Based on 12 User Ratings
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 User Ratings
6.5
42% Positive
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42% Mixed
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17% Negative
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The film looks so glossy, plasticized, and unreal that all you end up thinking about is special effects.
Overblown saga of shape-shifting demons, butt-kicking clerics and the perils of interspecies romance occasionally dazzles but finally frazzles with its relentless visual assault, embedding Jet Li and his capable castmates in one screensaver-ready fantasy backdrop after another.
A mad, laugh-out-loud mashup of “The Little Mermaid,” “Harry Potter,” assorted vampire tales, “Pan’s Labyrinth,” the disaster epic “2012” and oh – “Pokemon” – just to impose the cinematic precedents on display here, Sorcerer is a Chinese twist on the reliable sword and sorcery genre which caused Hollywood to impose “Clash of the Titans” and “Immortals” on the undeserving.
Perhaps hardcore Jet Li fans will be able to get some joy out of it, but we'd suspect that even they will struggle with this one.
Visually unspectacular and emotionally stillborn, The Sorcerer and the White Snake fails as both a fantasy and a romance.
