Ended on 5/6/2010
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THE WARLORDS -
(unrated)
2007 - China/Hong Kong - Mandarin - 126 minutes - Magnet Releasing
Directed by: Peter Ho-Sun Chan
Featuring: Jet Li, Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro
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 Set in the midst of war and political upheaval during the Taiping Rebellion of the 1860s, THE WARLORDS stars Jet Li as General Pang, who barely survives a brutal massacre of his fellow soldiers by playing dead, and joins a band of bandits led by Er Hu (Andy Lau) and Wu Yang (Takeshi Kaneshiro). After fighting back attackers from a helpless village, the three men take an oath to become "blood brothers," pledging loyalty to one another until death, but things quickly turn sour and the three men become embroiled in a web of political deceit, and a love triangle between Pang, Er Hu and a beautiful courtesan (Wu Jing-Lei).
"Chan's old-fashioned, highly watchable mega-production comes complete with God's-eye surveys of mass carnage, the moist sounds of sword-skewering, and little or no discernible CGI."
-Village Voice
"Intense, visceral and highly violent...placing you right there in the thick of the action..."
-Daily Mirror
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