| For once a martial arts foreign film doesn't rely on blood-thirsty revenge, and still delivers the quality visuals that we have all come to expect. Hello there everybody and welcome back once again to the website ReelScreenReviews.com I am of course movie critic Nick Iacobucci and our next movie review is "Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame". It not only has a really long title it opened in very limited release in the Unites States in September, and I recently saw a screening of it at a neighboring college. "Detective Dee" is a time period drama with a nice dose of action and features Andy Lau, Li Bingbing, Carina Lau, and Tony Leung. This film comes to us from director Tsui Hark, the director of many eastern cinema classics, and the western and not so classic "Double Take" with Dennis Rodman and Jean Claude Van Damme. This time around he kind of combines a little bit of many genres to deliver a very well rounded and solid motion picture. This tale tells a story in the year of 689 AD, and the baffling murder of seven men that were all loyal guards of the soon-to-be-empress and the mystery that surrounds their demise. The evening before the most powerful woman in China's history is about to have her coronation as empress, an evil force will stop at nothing to make sure that does not occur. The murder of the 7 guards was only the beginning of an evil scheme that will soon need the assistance of legendary detective Dee, and with him also comes an intricately ... |
