Detective Dee: The Mystery of the Phantom Flame

Detective Dee: The Mystery of the Phantom Flame

  • Director: Hark Tsui
  • Writer: Chia-Lu Chang,Kuo-Fu Chen,Qianyu Lin
  • Countries of origin: China, Hong Kong
  • Language: Mandarin, Spanish
  • Release date: September 30, 2010
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 2.35 : 1
  • Also known as: Detective Dee: Mystery of the Phantom Flame
  • "Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame" is a movie produced by Huayi Brothers Media Group in 2010, directed by Hark Tsui , action director Sammo Hung , and starring Andy Lau , Li Bingbing , Carina Lau , Chao Deng , and Tony Leung Ka Fai Special performance   .
    The film mainly tells the story of Di Renjie's 8 years in jail, a strange case occurred in the court, and Wu Zetian had to use Di Renjie to solve the case again   .
    The film was shortlisted in the main competition unit of the 67th Venice International Film Festival. It premiered in Venice on September 5 , 2010, and was released in Mainland China on September 29, 2010. It won the box office championship for three consecutive weeks and the Mainland box office was 300 million   .

    Details

    • Release date September 30, 2010
    • Filming locations Beijing, China
    • Production companies China Film Co-Production Corporation, Film Workshop, Huayi Brothers Media

    Box office

    Budget

    $13,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $459,836

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $52,617

    Gross worldwide

    $51,899,269

    Movie reviews

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    • By Filomena 2022-07-21 16:32:44

      Detective Dee: The Mystery of the Phantom Flame--Babel

      (Carina Lau) Before ascending the throne, he built a three-hundred-foot tower. Before the completion of the project, there were murders one after another: Jia Yi, the Minister of Works, and Xue Yong (Liu Jinshan), the minister of Dali Temple, set themselves on fire one after another. The overseer, Shatuo (played by Leung Ka Fai), said that the two were punished by heaven for moving the amulet of the Heavenly Pillar. At Dali...

    • By Morton 2022-06-08 11:42:08

      Questions about "Di Renjie: the Empire of Heaven"

      1. The tall statue of Wu Zetian is really a magnificent spectacle. The imagination is awesome. But being able to figure out how to kill someone with such a large object is a bit of a stretch. It is a bit too much to be able to easily kill the prince and Dali Siqing, grab the military order to mobilize the army, raise a large number of poisonous beetles, and be able to fly over the eaves and walls, but it...

    • By Federico 2022-04-23 07:04:05

      miss Jianghu

      I really want to know who played Li Bingbing's Yi Rongcheng's national teacher. The facial features are really three-dimensional and beautiful. The result is that Li Bingbing's classmate was tragic at the moment when the Yi Rongshu receded. . .
          In fact, I don't like the name of the movie. It's a bit wordy. If it weren't for the big label "Tsui Hark Works" and Li Bingbing's beautiful stills, I guess I wouldn't have given him a look.
          Speaking of the prosperous Tang weather that...

    • By Glennie 2022-04-22 07:01:49

      Can there be more 2B points?

      I don't remember where I heard about this movie before, so I had high expectations before watching it. But I didn't expect it, this movie is too unreliable.

      At the beginning of the film, I felt that the lines, movements, and music were a bit pretentious and mysterious, so I didn't expect that I would pretend to be forceful until the end. When Lao Liu praised Lao Liang's ability to deduce the case, he thought he was going to have a wonderful reasoning or something, but Lao Liang...

    • By Evelyn 2022-04-22 07:01:49

      Give it a high score!

      When Xunlei finally reacted, I watched Di Renjie: The Empire of Heaven.

      People here rated this film an average of 6.5, and I disapproved of it, giving it an 8. Many people will definitely laugh at it, but I think the people who laugh at it are just stupid.

      Compared with several blockbusters in the past few years, Wuji, Golden Armor, etc., Di Renjie has a lot of good points, and it is not worse than the hero, but the color is not so full, but its sails and cities like the...

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    • By Arch 2022-03-28 09:01:12

      Let me go, these directors are brain-damaged one by...

    • By Monte 2022-03-28 09:01:12

      Compared with American suspense films, it is still slightly weaker. ....

    • By Sigrid 2022-03-28 09:01:12

      I've been staring at my eyebrows and lips, sorry I didn't want to hold my...

    • By Arjun 2022-03-28 09:01:12

      A little weird...

    • By Adela 2022-03-27 09:01:20

      I didn't think so badly, Tsui Hark's weirdness is still a bit fun, but some scenes are too Hellboy-like. ....

    Movie plot

    In 690 AD, after eight years of painstaking efforts, Wu Zetian ( Carina Lau ornaments ) will be formally ascended the throne, becoming the first female emperor in Chinese history. At that time, China was the country with the largest population and the largest population in the world. Luoyang, the god capital of the Tang Dynasty alone, has a population of nearly one million. The territory extends to Congling in the west, Mongolia in the...
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    Creative background

    Director Chen Kuo-fu thoroughly understood all the Chinese and foreign story versions of "Di Renjie" in the preparation of the film, and made a fit design of "007 plus Li Bai" for the character of "Di Renjie", and used "clone technique" to deeply understand "Di Renjie" , "The character'Di' is chivalrous tenderness, and'Benevolence' is the most emphatic sentiment of the Chinese, so his weapon is not sharp, representing his benevolence....
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    The most eye-catching feature of the actors is Wu Zetian's empress in the training ground. When Di Renjie met Wu Zetian for the first time in the film, she was reviewing the imperial examination for the champion of the year. In order to highlight the majesty of a generation of empresses, the scenes and makeup and costumes in the film are extremely luxurious. The film’s styling guide Yu Jiaan introduced that she deliberately made Carina...
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    Movie scene

    "Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame" has invested huge and detailed special effects, which is unprecedented in Chinese movies. In order to achieve better results, Huayi Brothers did not hesitate to invest 20 million yuan for this purpose. The director Hark Tsui also supervised the production of special effects in South Korea. The world in which the film is located is the real world, but these are real. The world has a...
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    Positive view

    "Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame" is the first epic Chinese-language film ( " Times " ) since "Hero" , and it is currently the closest Chinese genre film to Hollywood standards. Hark Tsui revival of the Chinese hero Detective Dee ( " New York Times " ). In the posture of Di Renjie, he can move freely in the temples and rivers and lakes of martial arts movies, and cooperated with Chen Kuo-fu to create a new type of...
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    Flame opposing view

    "Di Renjie" is not the martial arts movie that the audience expects. In the final analysis, it is an ancient costume suspense reasoning film with a strong political critique. Even with the help of producer Chen Kuo-fu, the logical clues of this film are still a little bit off. It was once proved that the reasoning of Chinese-language movies can never be rigorous. It has always been difficult for Hark Tsui movies to be thorough in the...
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    Movie quotes

    • Detective Dee: Shatuo... do you still remember Donkey Wang? Luoyang City Was built a thousand years ago. The old city subsided during the Han dynasty. A new city was built on top during the Sui dynasty. The old underground city became a black market. They call it the Phantom Bazaar.

    • Empress Wu Zetian: Remember, when one's aim is to achieve greatness... everyone is expendable.

    • Detective Dee: Ruling requires power and strategy, but right and wrong cannot be confused.