SYNOPSICS
Gu jian qi tan zhi liu yue zhao ming (2018) is a Mandarin,Chinese movie. Renny Harlin has directed this movie. Leehom Wang,Victoria Song,Godfrey Gao,Karena Ng are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2018. Gu jian qi tan zhi liu yue zhao ming (2018) is considered one of the best Action,Fantasy movie in India and around the world.
Due to a fateful occurrence, Yue Wuyi leaves home. He meets revered master Xie Yi, who imparts to him the magical arts of Yan, and thus begins his journey of cultivation. Along the way he meets Wen Renyu, Xia Yize, Ah Ruan and company. They discover the schemes and conspiracies of Shen Ye, the grand priest of Liu Yue City. The group of adventurers undergoes dangers to defeat Shen Ye, and prevent a disaster from befalling the world.
Same Actors
Gu jian qi tan zhi liu yue zhao ming (2018) Reviews
Remarkably mediocre reviews in China, and for good reason
For some background info, this movie is adapted from a game, and there was a drama adapted from this game as well in 2014, though it might be a different storyline (I don't play that game). Thus, one should lower his/her expectations when watching this film. After all, the storyline in games usually go along the same lines of defeating a villain to save the world... What's great: Graphics, some CG, fighting scenes, some famous actors. What's disappointing: the acting, the background music (or lack of it for some scenes) and the incoherency of some scenes. More on the acting, like most reviews from a Chinese review site, I felt that the acting was mostly stiff and a bit awkward. To be blunt, I think I see a few Kristen Stewarts in there, and the interraction was very bland at times. It was hard to imagine this would be the level of standard in a seemingly high budget movie. And it's sad to say, but I felt that the choice of actors, especially the main male character was kind of wrong. Wang Lee Hom seems a bit displaced as a happy go lucky MC who goes around with highly flexible moves and jumps around, since he is not that young anymore. Thus, I believe younger yet sunny type actors like Show Luo could be more suitable for the role. Incoherency of some scenes was quite jarring, as the switch from a scene to another hardly makes much sense at times, and in some scenes were obviously shot at different times and put together. Again, this is quite bad for a seemingly high budget film. Overall, the movie was quite boring as besides the cliched storyline (well this is a video game adaptation), the presentation of the scenes was quite monotonous (partly due to the acting and lack of music at times) but the graphics and a few big shot actors are worth supporting the film for.
Watchable
It's kind of a funny story to see Renny Harlin directing career when from Die Hard 2,Cliffhanger to crappy CGI-fest like Legend of the Ancient Sword but compared this movie to The Thousand Faces of Dunjia a movie with a similar plot directed and written by two of the best men from old Hong-Kong cinema industry like Woo Ping Yuen and Tsui Hark and believe me or not Legend of the Ancient Sword actually miles better and I'm rather rewatch this movie ten times than to rewatch that movie one time
A bit boring?
I normally like these sort of films, Asian fantasy-esque fims. But from the get go, it did not hold my interest. Yes the special effects were ok, but could not really make head nor tails of what was going on. That may be in part to the English subtitles, they were very small and and very fast subtitles, so while straining to try to read them, by the time you had started reading them, they went that fast, that you never got all of the subtitles. If it were dubbed into English, Imay give it another go. But overall, it did not impress me, sorry.