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Battle of the Warriors - Drunk Monk - 09-04-2009
Enough depressing anal rape stuff. That bites. Let's get back to action flicks, which is what DOOM is really about.
BotW is ancient battlefield epic, Chinese-style, much in the wake of Hero and Red Cliff. Despite boasting the same action director as Hero, this is not a martial arts flick. It's a castle siege flick (and who here doesn't love those?) The sets and costumes are big and opulent. The story is ok - it's based on some manga that's based on some ancient Chinese history or something - plenty of cliche moments: General vs. General, star-crossed lovers, commoners trying to make their way in war. Andy Lau plays a brooding mozi, which in this film is a jedi-like warrior with a keen tactical sense but is constantly ruminating about all the destruction in his wake. There was an overwhelming theme of the cost of war - lots of scene of dead bodies and carnage, some gorgeous in execution, others a tad tiresome. There's a few big battlefield scenes, especially in the initial attack which happens about mid-film. If it had ended with a bigger battle, I would have liked it more. That's not to say I wasn't entertained, but it's not worthy of a DOOM showing.