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Rating: 6.5 stars

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All movies seen on 05/15/2017

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Seven Swords (2005)

Directed by Tsui Hark

Fantasy | Action | Eastern

Most recently watched by sleestakk

Overview

In the 17th century, seven swordsmen join their forces to save the villagers from a manipulating General who bans martial arts.

Rated R | Length 152 minutes

Actors

Leon Lai | Charlie Yeung | Lu Yi | Liu Chia-Liang | Donnie Yen | Sun Honglei | Kim So-yeon | Michael Wong | Chi Kuan-Chun | Jason Pai Piao | Duncan Lai | Tai Li-Wu | Zhang Jingchu | Jingwu Ma | Li Hai-Tao | Liu Ming-Zhe | Lin Hai-Bin | Guo Feng-Qiang | Tengfei Tang | Gu Kun | Zhang Jie | Zhen-Bao Liu | Xie Zhang | Jiajia Chen | Guang-Jin Jiang | Bing Bo | Shang-Lei Yang | Chang-Cheng Deng | Bai-Ling Yao | Gui-Jun Zhang | Chang-Hung Li | Xi-Bin Jie | Zan-Hua Yao | Zeng-Bin Bai | Zhang Chao | Ruan Tang | Ji-Dong Du | Meng-Zhu Sui | Du-Shuai Chen | Lan-Ji Chen | Lanji Chen | Zhi-Yang Gao | Bobo Hu Ming | Ke-Yu Jiang | Qing-Zeng Ma | Li-Ming Tuo | Wen-Su Wang | Wenjie Wang | 杨丽晓 | Michelle Mee | Yang Zhang | Hao Zhou | Wong Chi-Man

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Viewing Notes

I liked this more than I thought I would even though it felt flat most of the time. Hark just didn’t do a good job building up any real tension through editing and music. The Fire-Wind mercenaries are pretty badass-looking but many of the notable ones get cut down too easily when drawn out action scenes would’ve really been better.

Even though I’ve owned this for a while I didn’t think I’d seen it before. Portions of it felt familiar but overall I still was convinced I hadn’t seen it until I entered it on Movielogr and discovered I had indeed already watched it. Getting old sucks!

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