Last night, we watched a DVD Brendan got me last Christmas, Warriors of Heaven and Earth, a Chinese movie set on the Western end of the Chinese empire, which runs like a good cowboy movie, with 2 warriors who happen to be on opposite sides, but are actually very alike - with a strong sense of right and wrong. The story is told without too many words, and there are some gorgeous visuals (a lot of beautiful desert scenes, and one very bad CGI desert-storm). The story is fairly straightforward, though it wasn't easy at the start to figure out how some of the characters got together - the scene explaining it all wasn't very clear to us. It was only later that we understood what the bit with all the monks was about. And I have to say that to the very end, I wasn't sure how the only woman in the movie was connected to the 2 main guys (and isn't she pretty, by the way?).It wasn't a Chinese kung fu movie, nor a big period drama, with fabulous dresses. Some of the men's costumes were more gladiator-like than what I had imagined Chinese warriors wore in the old days. But what do I know?
That said, if you want a good cowboy movie and don't fancy Clint Eastwood, Warriors of Heaven and Earth isn't a bad substitute.
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