Wednesday, February 8, 2012

My Kingdom 大武生

Released Year: 2011
Directed by 高曉松 Gao Xiao Song

Casted by:
吳尊 Wu Chun as 關一龍 Long
韓庚 Hankyung as 孟二奎 Gui
徐熙媛 Barbie Hsu as 席木蘭 Lan
劉謙 Liu Qian as 盧局長 Officer Lu
于榮光 Yu Rong Guang as 岳江天 Tian
元彪 Yuan Biao as 余勝英 Ying
伊能靜 Annie Yi as 馮姨太 Mrs Feng
Story:
Ying rescued Gui from being kill and Gui become his apprentice together with Long. Ying was also crowned as the best actor in the chinese opera. But Ying face a challenged from Tian, Ying loss and forced to leave the chinese opera. 20 years later, Long and Gui has learned enough and went to Shanghai to defeat Tian.

Tian is still the best actor in the chinese opera and decided to marry his apprentice Lan. Long and Gui challenge Tian and Tian loss on the stage in front of the audience. Tian cannot accept the humiliation and suicide on the stage. Long and Gui become the best actor in Shanghai and they live in a fancy world. Long even get to tackle Mrs Feng who is the wife of a gangster.

Gui decided to left the chinese opera team and make his revenge, he has assassinate 3 sons of his rival and left one who he didn't found. Once when Long is having affair with Mrs Feng, he was almost caught but Lan safe him. By killing the 4th son, Long save Gui from getting into trouble and found out he was the son of the 4th dead guy. Gui came to fight with Long and defeated Long by breaking his leg. Gui fall in love with Lan and have sex with her after a fight. But actually all this is plan by Lan to take revenge for Tian. Gui fell into the trap and was poison to be mute.

Lan left, Gui found Long and both of them decided to go back to Beijing and start their life again.
L² Scored: 6.5/10

L² Comment:
To be honest, the storyline is kinda so so. But the martial arts and the fighting scene is great. Yuan Biao just appeared in a few scene but its enough to show off his great martial arts to us :) Comparing Wuchun and Hankyung, Wuchun seems to be a bit sissy when comes to action. No offense, but Hankyung can move better than him and seems to be more manly than this pretty boy Wuchun.

Overall the movie is still ok, the costume and action is good. As for Barbie, she's not bad too in this movie, but she definitely needs more hard work in acting if she wanted to win some awards in this field.

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