And after years of waiting, Seven Swords finally reaches the shore in S'pore. So, Yao and I went to Lido to catch the swordfighting film, which took the director Tsui Hark 20 years time to complete.
Based on Liang Yu Sheng's novel, it's about the Manchurians who has just taken over the whole Mainland. To prevent anyone from overthrowing the Manchus, they set up a law to stop the people from practicing martial arts. Anyone found practicing will be executed on the spot. The execution ends up a massacre due to a group of killers under the Fire and Wind clan , which was hired to perform the execution, where they get rid everyone for money.
Martial village, the last village to be targeted by Wind, do not know about the existence of danger. When Wu Yuanyin (Charlie Yeung's best performance cum my fav actress!) rescued Fu Qingzhu, a retired executioner from Wind, he warns the village of the excution. Together with Han ZhiBang, another villager from the village, the trio head down to the Heaven mountain to seek assistance. There, there lives an old master with 4 disciples: Chu Zhaonan (Donnie Yen's latest production after Hero and Blade 2), Yang YunChong (Leon Lai's another role, cum my fav actor as well. haha.), MuLang and Xing LongZi. The 7 was thus give seven different swords to save the innocent lives, so as to avoid more bloodshed.
Hmm...not disappointed by the film. Better than Lao Mou Zi's arty farty swordfighting film. However, it was kinda badly censored, so the film ends up less than 2 1/2 hrs, less than what we anticipated.
However, this is what both of us noted in the new Lido 2: One of the pillars has been partially removed, with only part of the pillar hanging up in the ceilings...Yao asked, how come the theatre can be supported like that?
Beats me, but that kinda reminds me of the caves in some swordfighting film.