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Rating: 7 stars

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The Great Magician (2011)

Directed by Derek Yee Tung-Sing

Mystery | Comedy | Drama

Overview

In the years after the Revolution, China broken up into fiefdoms held by warlords, who are busy fighting each other. One warlord has imprisoned a girl and wants her to be his seventh wife, but he’s too honorable to force her. The local revolutionaries wants to kill him and bring back the republic. But when a stranger returns from abroad with mastery of magic to recover the girl he loved, who is tricking whom and who will win at the end?

Length 128 minutes

Actors

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai | Lau Ching-Wan | Zhou Xun | Paul Chun | Wang Ya-Chao | Yan Ni | Kenya Sawada | Wu Gang | Alex Fong Chung-Sun | Lam Suet | Wang Ziwen | Daniel Wu | Tsui Hark | Vincent Kok | Ma Jingjing | Jiulong Guo | Morris Rong Xiang | Benz Kong | Jamie Luk Kim-Ming | Lau Ho-Leung | Zhang Yi-Long | You Zhang | Bing Yang | Qu Jingjing | Berg Ng Ting-Yip | Tan Jianchang | YaShu Zhan | 郭佳伊 | Liu Di | Hu Ninglin | Ying Yuan | Wang Shengkai | Zhao Yi | Ambrose Hui | Xinyi Wang | Dejun Xia | Zhang Aiqin

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

After viewing SHANG-CHI again I wanted to watch more Tony Leung films and this one I had in my Netflix queue. Not sure why they list this as a mystery other than I guess bc it has magic? It’s a full-on dramedy. Goofy at times but very enjoyable to watch Lau Ching-wan and Leung go head to head. Kinda wish they had just gone totally serious or just straight comedy. It’s weird when people are being killed to go to a joke sequence. That tonal shift is probably why this doesn’t have good ratings but I still love Leung here.

Xun Zhou is also great as the woman stuck in-between these two men. Lowkey MVP to Wang Ziwen as Lam Suet’s sister turned magician assistant. Wish she did more movies than TV series but that’s China for ya.

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