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House Of Flying Daggers
A romantic police captain breaks a beautiful member of a rebel group out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows. But things are far more complicated than they seem...
27 September 1961, Tai Po, Hong Kong
20 August 1982, Liaoyuan, Jilin, China
11 October 1973, Taipei, Taiwan
July 04, 2008
The studied, artistic affectations may prevent this Mandarin-language art house effort from being as kinetically potent as the films it emulates, but it more than compensates by offering up deeply felt emotions played out on a grand scale more than adequaJanuary 14, 2005
One of the most visually astonishing martial-arts fantasies ever made.January 13, 2005
An intoxicating cocktail of splendid visuals, spectacular action, state-of-the-art computer-generated imagery and some old-fashioned swashbuckling worthy of Hollywood's Golden Age.June 21, 2007
A gorgeous film in all respects, both accessible and artistically satisfying. Excellent.November 07, 2012
Though occasionally overwrought, peerless sequences, such as the sublime flight through a bamboo forest, ensure House Of Flying Daggers is a work of real beauty.January 14, 2005
A dazzler -- and almost as exciting as its title promises.January 14, 2005
About as viscerally and visually exciting as film can get, and yet it is also fully, ripely romantic in a way that few modern films would dare.December 24, 2010
Gorgeous, but also very violent.September 01, 2005
See it in a theater on the biggest screen you can findJanuary 13, 2005
Zhang proves that Hero was no accident with House of Flying Daggers, another Chinese period piece resplendent with a dazzling palette and soaring, ambitious fight sequences.January 10, 2006
Moments of astonishing greatness followed by yawn-inducing romance.January 14, 2005
As stunning as it is, it also serves notice that House of Flying Daggers will have none of the complexities of Hero.