Legendary adventure at it's finest!
An absolutely amazing movie!Fans of classical mythology as well as comic book readers should check this film out at once. An incredible plot charged with ancient conflicts between good and evil serves as the backdrop to some wonderful charachter (sic) development. Anyone who enjoyed "the bride with whie hair" or any other magical epic set in ancient china will indeed get a massive kick from this movie. Unfortunately, the breakneck pace of the amazing plot combined with only subtitles available to all us occidentals means that if you blink, you're lost. SEE IT!
GOOD B-MOVIE FUN
Even die hard Hong Kong film fans will agree that this movie is a tad more ridiculous and cheesy than most. Still, even if the effects are dated and the plot is thin, it is all good fun. You are entertained from the first scene to the last, and despite being almost twenty years old, the movie holds up better than a majority of the early eighties fantasy movies. It beats the hell out of Labryinth, Legend, and Big Trouble in Little China, a film that sight Zu as its primary influence
Truly original
The fantasy genre in Hong Kong received a fresh renovation with this, Tsui Hark's elaborate feature-length set piece upon which all others would be based.
No fantasy film since would be able to capture the allure of Zu: Warriors From The Magic Mountain, although those that came close (Chinese Ghost Story, Swordsman II, Dragon Inn) all featured Tsui Hark as part of the crew.
Zu throws away any sense of believability at the very beginning, and opts instead for a wonderfully majestic setting in which a man can fly if he knows the proper spell and a sorceror can keep a giant rock intent on world destruction at arm's length with the aid of his goatee.
An acquired taste, for sure; anybody with a firm grip on reality will hate this movie. But a real gem for someone that is anxious for something they've never seen before.
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