Warriors of Heaven and Earth (Blu-ray) R
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 3, 2007
- Originally Released: 2004
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Wen Jiang & Kiichi Nakai | |
Performer: | Wang Xueqi, Harrison Liu, Hasi Bagen, He Tao, Wang Deshun, Yang Haiquan, Yeerjiang Mahepushen & Yun Zhou | |
Directed by | He Ping | |
Screenwriting by | Zhang Rui & He Ping | |
Composition by | Padmashree A. R. Rahman & Matt Dunkley | |
Produced by | Wang Zhongjun | |
Director of Photography: | Zhao Fei |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/4 --
Monotonous.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Rating: 2.5/4 --
For most of its two-hour running time, it's a pretty solid action yarn that echoes both the swordsman epics of Akira Kurosawa, as well as some of the Clint Eastwood Spaghetti Westerns.
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Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Rating: 3/5 --
An enjoyably pulpy story, occasionally slow-moving and pretentious
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Las Vegas Mercury
Rating: B- --
Takes all the elements of the classic Westerns, mixes them with Eastern spiritualism, and comes out with a film that is at least noteworthy, if not especially brilliant.
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EricDSnider.com
Rating: B- --
It's too busy courting genre cliches to mine anything transcendent, which runs counter to the promise inherent in the title.
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Bangor Daily News (Maine)
His panoramic epic should wow any viewer with the natural splendor of white deserts, red mountains and green valleys.
New York Times
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Warriors ransacks enough of the dust-swept battle genre (start with Sergio Leone, Akira Kurosawa, and John Ford) to have no rousing or opulent B-movie personality of its own.
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Boston Globe
Product Description:
He Ping, the director of the cult classic SWORDSMAN IN DOUBLE FLAG TOWN and the better-known RED FIRECRACKER, GREEN FIRECRACKER, enters the big time with WARRIORS OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, an epic battle between two heroic figures fighting for themselves and for their countries. When Li (Jiang Wen) refuses to kill innocent women and children, he becomes a rogue soldier without a land. Master swordsman Lai Xi (Nakai Kiichi) is ordered to assassinate him if wants to get back to to his home in Japan and see his mother before she dies. But first they must join together to help a caravan with precious cargo make its way safely across the desert--with a beautiful woman, Wen Zhu (SHAOLIN SOCCER's Zhao Wei), caught in between them. The gorgeous cinematography is by Zhao Fei, who shot such Asian epics as RAISE THE RED LANTERN as well as such Woody Allen films as SWEET AND LOWDOWN and SMALL TIME CROOKS. The lush look of the film is echoed by A.R. Rahman's marvelous score and outstanding costuming and set design. Ping masterfully recreates seventh-century China as horses and camels lead the protagonists down the famous Silk Road during the time of the Tang Dynasty.