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"The Warlords" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 02/16/2012
Jet Li, Takeshi Kaneshiro and Andy Lau unite to play three blood brothers who lead a bandit army to victory during Chinese civil war in the mid 19th century. There is something very WESTERN about Warlords. Perhaps it is the reliance on big star names rather than a rich ensemble cast. Perhaps it is the committee written script (although I fail to see why so many names needed to be attached to such a sparse affair). Perhaps it was the fact that all the attention to detail and effort went to the bombastic slo-mo battle sequences. Whatever it is, Warlords felt far more like something in the vein of Alexander than Hero or Crouching Tiger. There is a real lack of humanity about it, and the barely sketched out characters did little more than spout sound bite style platitudes about honour while …
