[MovieReview] The Warlords

The Warlords

Cast: Jet Li, Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Xu Jinglei

Director: Peter Chan

"It is a movie not to be miss" -Bezoe

The Story Starts in the 1860s in the late Qing Dynasty. During that period, there was a lot of Kingdoms fighting each other to conquer the city. There was one battle in paticular where all the armies died and all left was the general. His name is Pang Qing Yun (Jet Li). Later in His journey, He met with Zhao ErHu (Andy Lau) and Jiang Wu Yang (Takeshi Kaneshiro). They sworn to become a blood brother so they can trust each other till the death.

Usually if there is Jet Li in a movie, it will bring the hype pretty high (admit it guys!). But what about adding another 2 superb actors? One is very well known in Hongkong, China plus other Asia regions (Andy Lau), and the other one from Taiwan (yes Takeshi is from Taiwan- 1/2 Taiwan 1/2 Japanese) ?. It should be a movie of the year no?

The opening scene really bring you in to the front seat to see whats going on during the period of time. It was a big battle happened everywhere, a pretty colossal I must say. I also notice some of the battle scene looks a bit like 300 (the scene where theres a lot of foot and head chopping). The action feel very classic Chinese-colossal-style battle. Don't compare it to a fancy Lord of the Ring types, it is more like Braveheart or Last Samurai (replace the samurai with Chinese sword). Even though there are a lot of battles, but it still have a interesting storyline

The Storyline is easy to understand, it is three men that are sworn as a blood brother, so even they are not at the same place when they are born, but they will die together. A lot of turmoil that will shake the brothers relationship in the movies. So I would say the story is very interesting to find out.

Acting wise is a top notch for all the three main actors. Jet Li still got the moves, Andy Lau still got the charm and Takeshi Kaneshiro still got the....look!. Jet Li role is the oldest brothers of three, he looks wise and mean. Andy is the middle, he is hard headed and never give up type. Meanwhile Takeshi is the youngest of three, he is the cheerful one. Even though Jet Li is getting old, but he still can kick a lot of ass in the movie, so get ready to get excited.

It is a movie not to be miss, it might be one of the best Chinese movies of the year. Even though you planning to catch it on weekday special price or weekend I don't care, just don't miss the movie, especially if you are their fans. Even though you not, its ok, you might be one later after watch the movie.

Overall Rating : A-
- Bezoe