House of Flying Daggers
Dir: Zhang Yimou
Cast: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Ziyi Zhang, Andy Lau
Blind girl good with knives
plays echo game in brothel
spurs love triangle
I saw this movie last year at the London Film Festival, and indeed already own a copy on DVD, but it's a movie worth appreciating again on the big screen. Whilst not quite as epic in scope as Yimou's Hero, there's a lot to enoy here. It's much less of an action piece, focussing more on the relationship between the central characters - however the echo game in the Peony Pavilion and the ambush in the bamboo forest are both stunning scenes.
soulmining rating: ****
National Treasure
Dir: Jon Turteltaub
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Sean Bean, Jon Voigt
Cage seeks gold nonsense
wants to be Da Vinci Code
twenty scribes can't fix
Apparently the director had been developing this project for years, employing numerous scriptwriters to hone the content of this Indiana Jones-style adventure. Well, despite all the effort this movie is just utter nonsense. Admittedly it is enjoyable nonsense, but it's a movie riddled with implausibilities and plot-holes. Switch your brain firmly to the "off" position before viewing.
soulmining rating: ***
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