Since the month of August isn’t offering much in the way of 3D live-action films (T2 being the exception), I went and saw this today. This was actually my first time seeing a foreign film at the theater.
This is one of those Chinese movies that is totally fantasy. You have mortals and immortals. And some immortals living as mortals.
And it all takes place in fantasy realms. There is a lot of eye candy here, a lavish production.
Quite a bit of humor during the early segments. More serious drama as the movie moved along. I don’t really do a whole lot of foreign films and I must admit I sometimes got frustrated having to rely on subtitles. Frustrated because at times, I felt like I wasn’t able to enjoy the visuals as much as I would have liked to. But that is the nature of foreign language films.
As for the 3D, it was fine. They really cranked it up during the exciting finish. I’m not a 100% sure, but I thought I was looking at a conversion. It was hard to tell because there was so much CGI and my eyes spent a lot of time on the subtitles.
I imagine that those who enjoy these Chinese action/fantasy films, will enjoy this one. If my review seems a bit vague, that’s because I don’t really like to engage in ‘spoiler’ talk.