wonderful production, lame storytelling
Like most users here commented, Warriors of Virtue had wonderful production design, but the story leaves something to be desired.Maybe it's because of how the writers "kiddy-fied" the story.The action is typical of what you may see from some Hong Kong movies.There's the incredible feats of stunts like jumping tall buildings in a single bound, running over water, and high-powered martial arts.You should especially see the beginning of the movie how chef Ming cooks.It's all done with a semi-slow mo technique. Unfortunately, someone must have a terrible obsession over this technique because you see this way too frequently and in the presence of many falling leaves.Thus, after a while it really gets tiring. The production is pretty good for indoor sets.The production people creates a convincingly large army.It's too bad the story just lack the punch and simply relies on action (slow-mo action at that).The verdict: 2.5 of 5 stars.
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Yonhap S 10 November 1999
Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw0440374/35718
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