The Assassin's Blade [Blu-ray]

Not a terrible movie, but not great either. I watched this for Wu Chun, but the overall costumes and colors were very beautiful. I love romance movies, and Wu Chun did alright, He definitely feels like Quan in Hana Kimi. Charlene Choi was adorable albeit a bit exaggerated and slightly annoying, and Hu Ge played a handsome opposite to Wu Chun. The reason I gave this a three was that even though the plot was bearable, it was just really poorly paced. More screen time for longer meaningful interactions between Wu Chun and Charlene to grow their chemistry would've been great, instead, the romance felt rushed and stale. There were actions scenes, but most of them were sub par compared to the fight with Hu Ge and Louis Fan. I would dare to say that Louis' Fan's role in this although short was a great scene and held great weight. Harlem Yu was a joy and really fun to watch which makes me sad to give this movie such an avg rating. Overall not a bad movie, but it could have been more.

Good period movie

It was Romeo and Juliet with Kung fu. But I really enjoyed it, early Hu Ge as the supporting cast.

Love the movie.

Below average.

one of the best kung fu movie.

Very satisfied.

I can't review this film properly because I fast-forwarded through most of it, though that arguably tells you all you need to know. Part of the problem, though, may be the complete misrepresentation of it by UK distributor Metrodome... a new title 'The Assassin's Blade' and cover art implying armies and massive battles put me in the mood for one type of film, whilst the disc inside contains something completely different - yet another retelling of the 'Butterfly Lovers' story of star-crossed lovers featuring Charlene Choi, who once more apparently decides her natural cuteness is enough that she doesn't even have to bother trying to act, and a couple of totally uncharismatic male leads.From the little I bothered to watch, nothing inspired me to believe I was going to enjoy it nearly as much as Tsui Hark's wonderful version, or Li Han-Hsiang's classic 'Love Eterne'. I did occasionally drop the film back to normal speed, and nothing I saw then convinced me that the fast forward button was a mistake.The promo blurb compounds the license taken with the title and artwork by claiming the film contains "some of the most stunning martial arts fighting ever seen on film". No, it doesn't... it features a couple of scenes of clearly unskilled people waving weapons around at each other - though an appearance from the actually skilled Fan Siu Wong does bring one scene to some sort of life. Not nearly enough to justify the expectation of the martial arts classic the distributors apparently thought they'd bought the rights to, though.It's possible I'd have watched - maybe, just maybe, even enjoyed - the film if I'd gone in with appropriate expectations. A fluffy, cute Charlene-Choi filled retelling of Butterfly Lovers with a couple of unspectacular fight scenes might have been what I was in the mood for. If I was in such a mood, then the packaging of 'Assassin's Blade' would have led me to believe it would not fulfil my unambitious desires of the moment though, and I'd have watched something else - so through their promotional decisions, Metrodome pretty much guaranteed that I wouldn't enjoy their product (or buy it - yay for rentals). Kind of dumb.

as always not only fighting but a very warm funny ande sorrow at the end most gripping they transfer the story over so that you become the person very enjoyable

excellent.good quality and fast delivery.

* WARNING * If you like your martial arts movies fast paced with action, action, action, then whatever you do DON`T buy this film!!!! I agree with other reviews here that the title is totally wrong but I took a chance in buying it anyway. One review made the point there was no action so I was already expecting something other than an all action film and I wasn`t disappointed!If you like deep emotional romantic movies full of human twists and plots akin to a Shakespearian tragedy, then this film is 10/10!!! It is brilliant, beautifully shot, funny, very sad and very deep coming from the asian perspective of a very old fashioned romance, unlike the society today where boy meets girl, girl meets boy n off come her knickers!! No this film is more romantic and slushy than anything else.It`s simular to Hero with the two blokes and one girl scenario as a thread running throughout the film, so no assassins`s blade anywhere to be seen really and I`m not sure who the target audiance of this film was aimed at when making it? My wife who`s not really in2 martial arts fims except, Heros, House of the Fying Daggers and of course Croutching Tiger, absolutly luved this film, but then she would never have looked in the martial arts section to buy a film like this in the first place, so obviously why it flopped with martial arts fans!

Good