Advanced Search Beta »
Basic Search Fields
Warriors of Heaven and Earth
Metascore
54 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 15 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 15
  3. Negative: 0 out of 15
view
per page
  1. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Andrew Sun
    70
    A not particularly satisfying ending that involves silly CG effects. On the other hand, the acting is uniformly compelling, the fight sequences are energetic, and, as character drama, the material is especially enthralling.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    70
    May be a period piece but there's nothing antiquated about it except an overly populated, initially hard-to-follow plot.
  3. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: William Arnold
    67
    The film plays like a Hollywood-influenced Japanese samurai movie, though nothing as subtle as Kurosawa's best, and with white subtitles that often are hard to read against the white of the Gobi.
  4. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jami Bernard
    63
    A magnificent looking and occasionally very silly Chinese Western.
  5. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    63
    Falters when it gets involved with supernatural gobbledygook.
  6. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    63
    More of a sand-and-noodles western set in the Far East.
  7. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Rick Groen
    63
    The spaghetti western may be dead, but the noodle eastern looks to be alive and well.
  8. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    60
    Thoroughly old-fashioned entertainment.
  9. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Ned Martel
    60
    The best case for Warriors is its cinematic time travels and its peek into the natural wildness of a long-closed countryside.
  10. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    50
    Impressively filmed but not dramatic enough to justify its length.
  11. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: G. Allen Johnson
    50
    Eminently watchable, with enough majestic vistas and heroic derring-do to get by. It could have been so much more.
  12. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: David Chute
    50
    The buildup is so compelling in this "Chinese Western" by He Ping (Swordsman in Double Flag Town) that its thunderous anticlimax of an ending can almost be forgiven. Almost.
  13. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Keith Phipps
    50
    In spite of the unavoidable disappointment that comes from raised expectations (and lowered elevations), it's clumsy storytelling that ultimately keeps Warriors grounded.
  14. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Mark Holcomb
    50
    Comfortably familiar. It lacks the tension between grandeur and intimacy that characterizes the films it apes.
  15. Variety
    Reviewed by: Derek Elley
    50
    A handsome although dramatically muddled Noodle Western.
prev next
Page:
  • 1