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Summary: One of the two or three best martial arts movies ever
Review: Moon Warriors is a period piece set on the coast of China sometime during the Ming Dynasty. A kind-hearted fisherman, content with his simple village life, is reluctantly drawn into helping a noble emperor regain his throne from his evil brother. This movie has a very serious tone, and is filled with fantastic cinematography of primeval, mist filled forests, seaside fishing villages and ancient underground tombs. Although there are a few cheesy moments of people flying on wires, there is a ton of unbelievable straight, non-wire martial arts and swordplay. The fight scene where the hero defends his fishing village from the evil troops has to be one of, if not THE most amazing martial arts scene ever filmed. This movie also stars two of Hong Kong's most beautiful, talented actresses in Maggie Cheung and Anita Mui. If you're wondering what all the fuss is about Hong Kong cinema, this movie is a fine example, with it's noble heroes, evil villains, tragically doomed romance and incredible action scenes. Rumour has it that this was one of the Hong Kong films that significantly influenced George Lucas's new Star Wars prequels.
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Summary: Betty
Review: Moon Warriors is complete with a fast moving plot, interesting dialogue, good sound track of period chinese instrumental music, romance for the ladies and really fast action for the guys. You could put on this DVD just for the music. Plus, there are four super stars in this movie including Maggie Cheung, the pretty girl in Hero.
Hero and, Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon can't even compare to this movie because people were moving around in their seats at the theater durring some scenes, (Boredom I guess).
I also highly recommend Green Snake, very erotic in good taste.
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Summary: Great Film, bad ending... Hunky Guys....
Review: Moon Warriors is the story of a young fisherman named Phillip who befriends a deposed prince who is masquerading as a peasant. Through shared experiences, they begin to trust each other, and the prince entrusts the safety of his fiancee "Moonie" (yes, her real name), to Phillip's care. Phillip is sent to escort Moonie, and along the way he falls in love with her.But the prince's evil baby brother (aren't they all?), is intent on killing the prince to become the one TRUE emperor. Can Phillip and his trained killer whale save the day? I liked Moon Warriors (well, at least the first 3/4's of the film), but there was some definite cheesiness that must be mentioned, In particular, the scenes where Phillip is riding the killer whale, and posing like a centerfold on its back...(Groan). And of course, some of the long drawn out fight scenes. The good parts? Who can deny that the actor who played the prince, and Phillip were great hunks, and their friendship was cute. But the ending... What were they thinking? Completey unsatisfying. I had to deduct one star! Overall, good film, but a really, really bad ending.
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Summary: Don't Believe the Hype
Review: Moon Warriors was a huge disapointment. The story was terrible, the characters were uninteresting and the action was even worse. Don't let me even begin to start on the killer whale (filler)... If you want to see a good action movie try the Swordsman II, Iron Monkey, or Duel to the Death. Positive reviewers of this movie are probably guys that have never seen a hong kong movie that they didn't like.
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Summary: Good Stuff
Review: The Chinese Emperor has his throne usurped by a malicious brother
and while on the run from his murderous sibling is aided by peasant fisherman Andy Lau. Complicating matters are a few romances between Andy Lau and the true emperors fiancee and the emperor with his bodyguard, played very well (as always) by Maggie Cheung. This was an excellent martial arts movie. Granted, there was a lull in the middle while the romance issures were worked out, but there were still at least six wonderfully choreagraphed fight scenes, especially the scene in the meadow with the kites where an attack by assasins is attempted using a clever Trojan Horse ploy. The fights themselves are a good combination of "wire kung fu" and actual martial arts and all of these fights are of a decent duration. The evil brother (who's lethal with a naginata) is outstanding both as a fighter and as an actor, exuding a palpable maliciousness. For those who didn't like this movie, possibly because of the dry spot in the middle.....well, I can only say, if you can't sit still without constant action, then perhaps you should go back to watching cartoons. For anyone else who doesn't mind a human content (within the context of Hong Kong Cinema) this is a good film to watch. It certainly was better than Once Upon a Time in China, and while Moon Warriors might not be on anyone elses top ten list, it's still well above average. The only real problem I had with this movie was that, as one other reviewer pointed out, the subtitles were hard to read, but at least it wasn't dubbed.
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Summary: Good Stuff
Review: The Chinese Emperor has his throne usurped by a malicious brother
and while on the run from his murderous sibling is aided by peasant fisherman Andy Lau. Complicating matters are a few romances between Andy Lau and the true emperors fiancee and the emperor with his bodyguard, played very well (as always) by Maggie Cheung. This was an excellent martial arts movie. Granted, there was a lull in the middle while the romance issures were worked out, but there were still at least six wonderfully choreagraphed fight scenes, especially the scene in the meadow with the kites where an attack by assasins is attempted using a clever Trojan Horse ploy. The fights themselves are a good combination of "wire kung fu" and actual martial arts and all of these fights are of a decent duration. The evil brother (who's lethal with a naginata) is outstanding both as a fighter and as an actor, exuding a palpable maliciousness. For those who didn't like this movie, possibly because of the dry spot in the middle.....well, I can only say, if you can't sit still without constant action, then perhaps you should go back to watching cartoons. For anyone else who doesn't mind a human content (within the context of Hong Kong Cinema) this is a good film to watch. It certainly was better than Once Upon a Time in China, and while Moon Warriors might not be on anyone elses top ten list, it's still well above average. The only real problem I had with this movie was that, as one other reviewer pointed out, the subtitles were hard to read, but at least it wasn't dubbed.
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Summary: Average film, nothing spectacular
Review: This film is not good as these reviews before claim it is. I was hoping for more quality in the fights. I was overall disappointed by it. It had a few cool moments, like when the bad guy did all those crazy things with that one guy's head, otherwise, watch Iron Monkey.
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Summary: Moon Warriors
Review: This is a fine Swordplay movie directed by Sammo Hung. I enjoyed the movie because of its mix of action, romance and exotic locations and costumes. The fight sequences are fast moving and fun to watch. I especially enjoyed seeing Maggie Cheung in action. The romance in the movie is equally strong and adds an emotional element to the action sequences that is often missing from other movies. If you don't generally like action movies because all there is is fighting, you might like this movie. I listened to the Mandarin soundtrack, but spot checks on the Cantonese soundtrack showed that it might be marginally cleaner. The subtitles are white and part of the picture, so they can't be turned off. However they are very clear and I didn't notice any "polar bear in a snow storm" effects with the subtitles becoming unreadable. This is a movie I would recommend to action fans and superhero fans alike.
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Summary: BEAUTIFUL MOVIE
Review: this is a really beautiful movie it has the best sword fights you can see all the fights are done very well the characters are amazing very good acting on the side of the acters the only down side for this movie and it's why i didnt give it 5 stars is because the subtitels are really bad, you can see them a lot of the time and you dont know what's going on
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Summary: BEAUTIFUL MOVIE
Review: this is a really beautiful movie it has the best sword fights you can see all the fights are done very well the characters are amazing very good acting on the side of the acters the only down side for this movie and it's why i didnt give it 5 stars is because the subtitels are really bad, you can see them a lot of the time and you dont know what's going on
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