One star is given to the beauty of the goddesses such as Brigitte Lin / Li Jiaxin / Rosamund Kwan. One star is given to the relatively excellent soundtrack and the golden years of Hong Kong in the 1990s.
I can understand that in the 90s there was no mass adoption of computers and therefore no fancy special effects, but telling a good story should be the foundation of a movie. And I don’t know what the whole story is about, why Dongfang Invincible has to fall in love with Linghu Chong, why Linghu Chong’s martial arts go up and down, why did the Japanese ninjas appear so awesome and then die after a fight, why Li Jiaxin’s role is the whole process The sense of disobedience is so strong, why do you have to speak Mandarin and dialect at the same time, why Linghu Chong, who was able to defeat the undefeated Dongfang, was afraid to hide from the blind Ren Wuxing at the end, and why Qianhu who appeared in the middle felt like a fool.
I see some people criticizing Tsui Hark, I want to say that he is still living in that era today, so that A Chinese Ghost Story/Green Snake/Dragon Inn can tell a good story, and this film and the later Di Renjie Fantasy blockbusters don't do that. Just like today's Hong Kong movies, there is no Hong Kong goddess, there is no golden age, only gun battles and anti-drug movies are left. He did nothing wrong, it's just that times have changed. When a generation with a sufficient material foundation and a logical education goes to watch these Hong Kong movies, just like today’s young people go to the United States, there is no longer the huge gap that existed in the 1990s when they went abroad. At that time, Hong Kong movies almost completely occupied all the storytelling rights in the whole of China, and China didn’t even have money for military and aerospace research and development, let alone the film industry. It is a beautiful mask with a kind of past. But today, when the times leave us, we can't even greet the most basic greetings.
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