All demons need is love, actually.
Links: AFFF / imdb
quote: (one demon to another) "act like a man and leave!"
Besides the "Day of the Tentacle"-is music now and then, an Asian spectacle of fighting, roof-jumping and demons. Lots of warm glows, indirect lighting and soft shadows in the beginning, buckets of flawless pale skin with nearly unblinking eyes with the darkest colour of the night in their almond shapes... Hoohah.
Not exactly impressive, but entertaining. Slightly curious effect, sorry, storyline, sorry, character arch, sorry... well, a curious effect, as I was saying, that even the demons were head over heels in love. It was all about love, about dying for each other, till the end and beyond, take me, don't kill him, love love love...
ah. Well.
Rating: 7
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description: Chinese lovestory, demons, love, swordfighter, gone for 2 years, demon hunter, demon love.
(Geoffrey): (rating 7)
How deep is your love? Will you love her, even when she is a demon? And what if a demon loves you and wants to take you from your lover? Can you stand the seduction? The Asiatic movie sketses the story of true love. A little bit of melodramatic, but it turns out quite ok. The movie has a love story, sword fighting, demons and more. Not a classic, but nicely done.
(Geoffrey): (rating 7)
How deep is your love? Will you love her, even when she is a demon? And what if a demon loves you and wants to take you from your lover? Can you stand the seduction? The Asiatic movie sketses the story of true love. A little bit of melodramatic, but it turns out quite ok. The movie has a love story, sword fighting, demons and more. Not a classic, but nicely done.
First fighting to stay alive, then fighting to sacrifice oneself in the name of love
Links: AFFF / imdb
My Manderin is not up to standard, so having decent English subtitles is a prerequisite to understand the film. A shame then that the quality of these subtitles was not too good at times. I am not referring to the occasional typo, but to abbreviated sentences and losing meaning that was present on-screen.
Funny to see that they seem to love story-within-a-story constructs, as for the use of flashbacks and memories.
It's a bit of a letdown that a lot of the scenes are comical to us Westerners instead of genuinely dramatic, with heavy dialogue and actions that I associate more with Greek tragedies than your run of the mill wire-fu films.
Rating: 6
Links: AFFF / imdb
My Manderin is not up to standard, so having decent English subtitles is a prerequisite to understand the film. A shame then that the quality of these subtitles was not too good at times. I am not referring to the occasional typo, but to abbreviated sentences and losing meaning that was present on-screen.
Funny to see that they seem to love story-within-a-story constructs, as for the use of flashbacks and memories.
It's a bit of a letdown that a lot of the scenes are comical to us Westerners instead of genuinely dramatic, with heavy dialogue and actions that I associate more with Greek tragedies than your run of the mill wire-fu films.
Rating: 6