The Chinese import “14 Blades,” shot in 2009, is a kind of Eastern western whose one-note characters and convoluted plot are nearly swallowed up whole by this martial arts film’s dizzyingly wrought ...
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Those of you who did a spit-take when Gillette announced their five blade Fusion razor last year because you remembered The Onion predicting it would happen from the year before, you should appreciate ...
Martial arts period drama 14 Blades’ cartoonish action scenes are so energetic that it’s hard to believe they weren’t directed by master choreographer Woo-ping Yuen (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; ...
Wuxia films didn’t disappear at the start of the 21st century – the genre simply became subsumed into the big-budget “Chinese blockbusters” (daipan) which were then often co-productions between Hong ...