The Promise
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Movie Reviews of The Promise
Movie Review: a beautiful myth
Summary: 4 Stars
I really liked this film. The cinematography, editing, and music make it a joy to watch. It's a great story about a love triangle, loyalty, regret, and self-sacrifice. The hero, the slave, is especially endearing.Movie Review: Every Woman's Dream
Summary: 5 Stars
Every woman would choose to live life over and over again just for the one chance to have a love like the one in this story.Movie Review: This is such a gorgeous movie to watch.
Summary: 3 Stars
This is such a gorgeous movie to watch. The special effects, the costumes, the fine and composed movements that each character creates is equally beautiful. If you want a movie to just look at and enjoy without getting overly involved with the plot, then this is a good one to view.
The acting is okay, but the version I watched was one that was dubbed with English. It was quite an experience to view a movie with Cantonese people that have a British tongue! Next time I would go with the subtitled version and hear the lovely Cantonese language throughout.
Movie Review: I enjoyed it.
Summary: 4 Stars
I did, however, see a different version than the one listed here. The one I saw was 122 minutes in mandarin with subtitles and came with 2 discs. There are some bad cuts and some cheesy cgi scenes but overall the movie was stunning visually. I found the story to be coherent and believable for the fairy tale world that was presented. A touching love story with the typical broken hearts and lies to boot. Nothing earth shaking but enjoyable.Movie Review: Too bloated and disjointed
Summary: 2 Stars
I could swallow the Fantasy part, such as odd physical abilities of key characters, different "lands" and Goddess', but its too disjointed to have any bearing to a coherent plot. SPOILER.
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The fact that the slave-since-near-birth becomes an ultra-confident, kunfu master and subsequently becomes a greater noblemen then his new master is only ludicrous in the sense that we see no progression to this state. Its a huge jump in a characters which has no logical bearing.
Additionally, we think the villian is attempting to subvert the emporer, yet later in the movie the "council" of the city seems to divest to the villian, as if the upheavel the villian initially caused was forgiven. Just odd. We also see no resolution for the fallen-generals betrayal by his right hand man.
Yes, their are beautiful sequences, but your too much trying to figure out exactly what the hell the director is trying to accomplish.
If The Promise cut out 4 of its weird sub-plots, and focused on the rest of them (by building them up sequentially) perhaps we would have understood the story and identified with the characters.