Wu Ji (The Promise)
Hell, this is probably the worst movie I have watched since months. Why did I even bothered (and finished!) watching this? Because my parents wanted to see this and because it actually is fun to watch this with them. But oh my god, this was unbearable! What made this movie so despictable for me can be summed up with one single word: unnaturalness. The story was unnatural, the actors were unnatural, the whole setting was unnatural (but that can be forgiven because of aesthetics). How can this world have produced such awful actors? The only good actor in the whole movie was Liu Ye, who in fact at least went to a film school. The worst was Cecilia Cheung – maybe it was the make up, but she also had those preposterous facial expressions that I simply couldn’t stand. One of the reasons why these actors talked in such a weird and unnatural manner might be that they are from Hongkong, but that still does not explain the totally unprofessional facial expressions, right?
All in all, this movie is like Hero, just worse in every single aspect.
In sum, if you prefer this movie over Hero, then you are just like those people who prefer Strawberry Panic over Maria-sama ga Miteru: I will not be able to take you for serious and thus cannot engage in a conversation with you about movies. *hrr* Pardon me this elitism.
The next movie my parents want to see is “Curse of the Golden Flower”. Let’s see if that one is better.